Equity Release

Second charge distributor buys broker-packager

Second charge distributor Fluent Money Group has announced the purchase of Manchester based broker...

Pure Retirement sponsors new Air Sourcing site

Pure Retirement is sponsoring the launch of Air Sourcing’s Version 2 website this June, which...

Financial and emotional barriers to downsizing

Bower Retirement 's latest Adviser Tracker research has found that its specialist advisers estimate...

More 2 Life: see ‘the bigger picture’

Equity release lender More 2 Life has launched a campaign urging advisers to see...

Questioning equity release client health ‘a must’

The option to offer your equity release clients enhanced terms means advisers should always...

Retirement Advantage enhances equity release offering

Retirement Advantage has added Lifestyle Lite to its Lifestyle Options product range, with the monthly interest...

OneFamily launches lifetime mortgage comparison tool

OneFamily has introduced a lifetime mortgage calculator that provides advisers with the ability to...

Personal Touch joins Equity Release Council

Adviser network Personal Touch Financial Services has joined the Equity Release Council.   Latest figures...

More 2 Life offers faster commission payments

More 2 Life has introduced a new payment process so it can now pay advisers the...

Interest-only borrowing behind equity release rise

Key Retirement has found that 22% of customers used property wealth to clear mortgage...

New directors at the Equity Release Council

The Equity Release Council has appointed two new board directors following a vote by...

Housing wealth to fill gap left by pension income

A new report from the Equity Release Council has said that wealth accumulated by...

Increase in popularity of early inheritances

New research from Key Retirement has revealed that parents want to give away an...

L&G hires lifetime mortgages’ operations director

Legal & General has appointed Mike Thompson to the position of operations director of its...
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COMMENT

Stamp Duty

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for stimulus, this time: abolish stamp duty. The logic feels intuitive -...

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

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Stamp Duty

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for...
News

LendInvest bolsters residential and BTL broker support with Glasgow team expansion

LendInvest has expanded its commercial support team with a particular focus on helping brokers...
Technology

Hackathons test property data sharing in homebuying push

Proptech firms have tested how property data can be shared across the home-moving process...
News

Foundation refreshes buy-to-let range with new products and rate cuts

Foundation has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range with new products and rate reductions across...

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