Equity Release

Record year-on-year growth in equity release

The first quarter of 2017 saw the equity release sector reach record annual growth in new...

Paradigm to offer later life lending event

Paradigm Mortgage Services is to hold its first later life lending event in June. The half-day...

Key Retirement at MBE Leeds

Key Retirement Group is supporting Mortgage Business Expo’s focus on equity release lending and advice. Key’s...

Average equity release fixed rates at record low

Latest research by Moneyfacts.co.uk has established that the equity release market has continued to evolve...

Huge growth predicted for retirement lending market

New research from equity release lender More 2 Life has found that the size...

Equity release “to help fill buy-to-let vacuum”

The Society of Mortgage Professionals has warned that, after doubling in volume from £20.1bn...

MBE Leeds to hold equity release ‘knowledge hub’

The Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) at the Leeds Armouries on 26 April will include a dedicated...

Legal & General Home Finance to relocate

Legal & General Home Finance will be relocating to a larger office in Solihull...

Many over 50s can’t afford to fix their home

For almost half of people over 50, home repairs and how to pay for...

New lifetime mortgages from L&G

Legal & General has launched new Flexible Max and Flexible Max Plus lifetime mortgages. It...

New lifetime mortgage provider gets FCA approval

Responsible Lending has received full approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and is set...

First network member for the Equity Release Council

Lighthouse Advisory Services has joined the Equity Release Council as its first financial services network organisation member. The...

Homes earn £1.7k for retirees over past quarter

Retired homeowners have earned £1,700 from their houses in the past three months as...

Growth in enhanced lifetime mortgages

At the Financial Services Expo (FSE) Glasgow yesterday, Key Retirement’s Dean Mirfin outlined how the...
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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...
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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...
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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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