Later Life

Advise Wise partners with Comentis for vulnerability support

Advise Wise is to team up with Comentis, the duty of care assessment company,...

LiveMore lowers minimum equity on over-50s’ mortgages

LiveMore has lowered the amount of equity required for its standard interest-only mortgages by...

Most difficult financial topics for discussion revealed

The financial topics that Britons most avoid talking about have been revealed by online...

Pure Retirement appoints new NED to board

Pure Retirement has announced the appointment of its new non-executive director (NED), Phillip McLelland. McLelland...

More2life adds rewards discount to Apex product

More2life has launched its Apex Interest Reward product, a lifetime mortgage which benefits those...

Access Financial Services hires later life chief

Access Financial Services has appointed Adrian Brewer to the new position of head of...

Sizeable rise in new lifetime mortgage customers’ average property value

There have been annual and quarterly increases in the average property value among new...

Any Budget pension changes could shift balance to equity release

There is a growing need to shift retirement planning to include wider considerations of...

Older borrowers won’t all be served by a mainstream-only approach

When it comes to the mortgage borrowing public in the UK, the numbers tend...

Generational disparities in retirement planning

Younger workers are much more thoughtful about money issues than people might expect, and...

Pure Retirement reveals profile of average new equity release customer

Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has analysed its own data for the third quarter...

Hodge rebrands 50+ mortgages and scraps minimum age

Hodge is rebranding its 50+ mortgage products to Resi Retire. It is also removing the...

Marsden BS increases retirement mortgage LTVs

Marsden Building Society has announced a rise in the loan to value (LTV) across...

UK adults expect to live to 85

Canada Life has released its inaugural Life100+ report, the first in a series of...

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You can’t just turn on a tap and expect housing supply to flow

Yawn and stretch, the government have appointed a new housing Czar in place of the thoroughly discredited Angie Rayner, former Deputy Prime Minister, who...

Alan Cleary: Taking the helm at Chetwood Bank

When Alan Cleary retired from the mortgage industry in 2021 he thought his days of running banks were behind him. After more than three decades...

The sourcing system effect in specialist lending

In specialist lending, the right fit for a client has never been as simple as picking the top rate from a list. In sectors like...

Why the Renters’ Rights Bill should be a wake-up call for advisers and landlords

The Renters’ Rights Bill is shaping up to be one of the most significant legislative changes to the private rented sector (PRS) in decades. Expected...

Living in a box. Am I living in a cardboard box?

More young people are living with their parents than ever before. The bank of Mum and Dad has evolved into the hotel of Mum and...

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Industry titans weigh in behind charity concert

Two of the mortgage industry’s biggest names have thrown their weight behind Take Me...

Project 28 launches in a bid to slash time it takes to sell homes

A coalition of 23 of the UK’s leading property organisations has unveiled a sweeping...

Rotherham mortgage boss crowned Lord of the Manor

Scott Thorpe, founder and chief executive of TMG Mortgage Network, has been formally recognised...

Midlands and northern England dominate buy-to-let purchases as landlords seek value

Buy-to-let lending in the Midlands and the north of England accounted for nearly half...