Later Life

Later life care funding worrying families

Families are increasingly concerned with how to fund care in later life for elderly...

More 2 Life unveils new Capital Choice Lite products

More 2 Life has announced the launch of its ‘Capital Choice Lite’ plans, offering...

Canada Life to hold equity release lead generation workshops

Canada Life Home Finance is to run a new series set of events in...

Who am I?

Are you a Brexiteer or a Remainer? If you are a Brexiteer you are...

Equity release borrower choice continues to expand

Key Partnerships has reported that equity release lenders now offer 233 plan options across...

The Nationwide to offer dedicated advice for later life lending

The Nationwide Building Society has launched a new range of three later life mortgage...

L&G “explores” in-house lifetime mortgage advice

Legal & General says it is exploring its options with regard to providing financial...

TMA expands equity release panel

TMA Club has added lifetime mortgage provider, OneFamily, to its equity release panel. Members of...

Shift in broker criteria searches in March

Knowledge Bank's latest criteria activity tracker has shown a shift in broker searches regarding...

Pension-led funding offers business growth to older entrepreneurs: report

The two million small business owners in the UK aged over 50 could access...

31% tax burden for retired households

New research has established that retired households pay out the equivalent of 31% of...

The Vernon unveils offset RIO options

The Vernon Building Society has added four new products to its retirement mortgage range. The...

Lifetime mortgage growth continues unabated

The Equity Release Council’s Spring 2019 Market Report has found that over the course...

Later Life Lending Network partners with AIR Group

The Later Life Lending Network has announced a partnership with Answers in Retirement Group (AIR...

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...

Latest news

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...

House prices stall as mortgage costs and Budget uncertainty weigh on market

UK house prices were unchanged in September as higher mortgage rates and wider economic...

Remortgage activity rebounds as higher rates weigh on home purchases

Remortgage applications returned to annual growth in the third quarter, helping to offset a...

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