Equity Release

Key concentrates on later life options at FSE Glasgow

Key Retirement Group will focus on later life lending opportunities for mortgage broker at the Financial...

2016 a record-breaking year for equity release

The spring 2017 Equity Release Market Report from the Equity Release Council has reported that 2016...

2017 equity release to eclipse previous year?

Latest data compiled by Responsible Equity Release indicates that more homeowners than ever are taking advantage...

FSE Glasgow seminar programme published

Front Events has announced its seminar programme for the Financial Services Expo (FSE) Glasgow, which takes place on...

Key Retirement Group to hold roadshows with SMP

Key Retirement Group is expands its partnership with the Society of Mortgage Professionals. The firm will be...

Two generations now working to help FTBs

Key Partnerships has found that parents and grandparents are increasingly working together to help first-time...

Advisers unable to find retirement lending solutions

New research from equity release lender More 2 Life has revealed that 79% of advisers...

OneFamily expands lifetime mortgage offering

OneFamily has added two new flexible interest-paying products to its lifetime mortgage range. Consumers will...

L&G appoints home finance MD

Legal & General has announced the appointment of Steve Ellis as managing director of...

Equity release referrals “expanding rapidly”

Key Partnerships saw growth of more than 71% in 2016 with referral customers releasing...

Paradigm awards lenders and providers

Paradigm Mortgage Services has revealed the third-yearly winners and runners-up from its Lender and Provider...

The Family BS partners with equity release firms

The Family Building Society has launched its full range of later life mortgage lending products...

L&G appoints retail retirement boss

Legal & General has announced the appointment of Chris Knight as managing director, Legal...

Connect for Intermediaries expands packager panel

Connect for Intermediaries has added the Family Building Society to its packaging lender panel. The...

COMMENT

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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Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

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

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...

Hackathons test property data sharing in homebuying push

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

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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