Later Life

The Marsden in widespread product portfolio refresh

The Marsden Building Society has added new products across its expat, older borrower, RIO...

The importance of getting the Pensions Dashboard right

The responses to the Pensions Dashboard consultation and some of the subsequent social media...

More 2 Life unveils interactive LTV calculator

More 2 Life has launched a new enhanced Loan To Value (LTV) calculator for...

The Leeds launches 10-year RIO mortgages

The Leeds Building Society has introduced new 10-year Retirement Interest Only (RIO) mortgages and...

Canada Life offers workshops for equity release-qualified advisers

Canada Life Home Finance is to hold a number of events for equity release-qualified...

Pure Retirement introduces equity release Android app

Pure Retirement has launched its new adviser-facing mobile app. The firm believes it to be...

Record quarter for equity release market

The Equity Release Council has reported a record fourth quarter of 2018, with 82,791...

Openwork partners with Canada Life for lifetime mortgage launch

Openwork is launching its own lifetime mortgage proposition in an exclusive partnership with Canada...

L&G Home Finance launches Income Lifetime Mortgage with TV ad

Legal & General Home Finance has introduced its new Income Lifetime Mortgage to customers...

Squaring the long-term conundrum

In a market which has tended to work on short-term delivery, with a focus...

Equity release market approaching £4 billion

2018 saw retired homeowners release £3.6 billion in new property wealth, with the market...

Record year for equity release predicted by IFAs

A large majority of IFAs expect record lending in the equity release sector in...

L&G Home Finance to host CII accredited equity release workshops

Legal & General Home Finance is to offer its first new CII-accredited workshops for...

Canada Life offers 2019 round of equity release exam workshops

Canada Life Home Finance has announced a new range of workshops to help mortgage...

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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