Later Life

Key grows corporate business development team

Equity release adviser Key is expanding its corporate business development team. Key’s corporate team is actively...

The Vernon joins L&G Mortgage Club panel

The Vernon Building Society has joined up with Legal & General Mortgage Club to...

People expect to be fit for work for longer

UK workers expect to be physically capable of doing their jobs until past their...

Downsizers getting less than expected

New research from financial services provider OneFamily has found that 24% of downsizers ended...

Pure Retirement launches Heritage range of products

Pure Retirement has unveiled its new product suite, the Heritage range, which has whole-of-market...

Total equity release lending hits £1.18 billion in Q1

The property wealth of retired homeowners is increasingly being used to clear unsecured debts...

Equity Release Council appoints comms manager

The Equity Release Council has appointed Chris Fay to the position of communications manager. The...

Two new RIO mortgages from the Nottingham

The Nottingham Building Society has added to its Retirement Interest Only (RIO) mortgage range. It...

Retirees need 35% more than full state pension provision

Equity release adviser Key has calculated that the annual cost of being retired mounts...

Just Mortgages to supply Key with equity release leads

Just Mortgages has partnered with leading equity release referral service Key Partnerships for both...

Paradigm reveals 2019 lender and provider award winners

Paradigm Mortgage Services and Paradigm Protect, the mortgage services and protection propositions, have announced...

Over-55 homeowners have average of £280k equity in their homes

SunLife research has revealed that 51% of people in their 50s, 60s, 70s and...

Brokers increasingly searching for where lenders will lend

Lending in Wales and Scotland were amongst top five criteria searches for the first...

The Beverley joins SimplyBiz Mortgages panel

SimplyBiz Mortgages has revealed that the Beverley Building Society has joined its panel of...

COMMENT

I’m 49. My dad’s 73. Between us we’ve found the hole in later life lending

I turn 50 in December, and the marketing has already started. Funeral plans, over-50s life cover, “guaranteed acceptance” adverts wedged between the football highlights....

Buying scale was phase one. What happens next?

Mortgage distribution is in a race for scale. Capital wants market share. Consolidators want distribution. Networks want advisers. Good businesses are commanding serious valuations. If I...

Slow completions are costing brokers. Five steps can help protect their pipelines

Through my conversations with mortgage brokers, and Landmark’s work across the wider home-moving process, I see the same pattern repeatedly. Once a mortgage has...

The industry needs to prepare now for Your First Home

The government’s announcement of the Your First Home scheme is genuinely positive news, and anything that boosts confidence among first-time buyers and people trying...

Why advisers can be part of the conveyancing team

There is a tendency to think the mortgage adviser’s involvement in conveyancing begins with recommending a firm and then largely ends once the client...

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TPFG buys 25% stake in property and mortgage AI business Enteka

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) has taken a 25% stake in Enteka AI as...

Property professionals back homebuying reforms, CSS poll finds

More than three-quarters of property professionals believe proposed changes to the homebuying and selling...

Accord cuts buy-to-let rates by up to 0.43%

Accord Mortgages is reducing selected buy-to-let rates by up to 0.43 percentage points, with...

Mortgage Brain embeds LMS conveyancing service into CRM Brain

Mortgage Brain has integrated the LMS Select conveyancing platform directly into CRM Brain, allowing...

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