Later Life

The Vernon joins Connect Mortgages’ lending panel

Vernon Building Society has joined the lending panel of Connect Mortgages, expanding product choice...

Millions risk retirement finance shortfall due to life expectancy misjudgement

A growing mismatch between public expectations and actuarial reality on life expectancy could leave...

LiveMore raises LTVs across lifetime mortgage range

LiveMore has announced an increase in loan to value (LTV) limits across its lifetime...

Widening gap in healthy life expectancy underscores case for later life lending

A widening divide between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in the UK is...

Pure Retirement integrates with MBT in lifetime mortgage sector-first

Pure Retirement has become the first specialist lifetime mortgage lender to be added to...

Caring responsibilities identified as key driver of customer vulnerability

Caring responsibilities are among the most common life events affecting vulnerable customers, according to...

Cost of a ‘moderate’ retirement rises, says PLSA

The cost of a moderate retirement in the UK has risen again, according to...

Supporting downsizers could ease the housing crisis, says OPDA

Helping older homeowners to downsize could play a critical role in easing the UK’s...

Getting to know you: Darren Deacon, Family Building Society

Name: Darren Deacon Age: 52 Location: Home based, Leicestershire. Head office, Epsom Qualification Year: Started in banking in August 1989 Firm: Family...

Pure Retirement restructures originations team to enhance adviser outcomes

Lifetime mortgage specialist Pure Retirement has restructured its originations team with long-standing underwriting department...

Air to drive later life evolving needs into fifth gear at Silverstone event

Later life lending platform Air is turning the spotlight on the evolving needs of...

Ex-COO of Equity Release Council joins Equity Release Group

Donna Francis (main picture) has joined the Equity Release Group (ERG) as non-executive director. The...

PriceHubble joins Equity Release Council to support data-driven innovation in later life lending

Global property data and analytics provider PriceHubble has joined the Equity Release Council as...

Older borrowers turned away by high street lenders despite secure incomes

Retirees seeking modest mortgages are being turned away by the UK’s biggest banks, according...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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