Later Life

Brightstar launches interest-only & later life lending guide

Brightstar Financial has published a guide to interest-only mortgages and later life lending to...

Right Mortgage Network completes equity release workshops

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network held the third in its series of specialist...

More 2 Life breaks £2bn loan mark

More 2 Life has now more than £2 billion worth of loans under management, doubling...

Over £1bn in equity released in a single quarter for first time

The latest quarterly lending figures from the Equity Release Council have revealed that homeowners...

Advice “vital” in transforming equity release market

Equity release referral service Key Partnerships, has said that with the number of equity...

New Pure Retirement range aims to open up later life lending

Pure Retirement has launched a new product suite called the Sovereign range. Sovereign aims to...

New hires at L&G retirement business

Legal & General Retail Retirement has made a number of new hires and promotions...

Key Partnerships appoints national account manager

Key Partnerships has recruited Kay Westgarth to the position of national account manager. Most recently, Westgarth...

Aviva CEO steps down

Mark Wilson is to leave his position as chief executive officer of Aviva plc. Wilson...

Key makes head of advice sales hire 

Equity release adviser Key has appointed Rachel East as head of advice sales: whole...

OneFamily improves variable rate lifetime mortgages

OneFamily has made a number of changes to its two-year fixed and variable rate...

L&G offers new plan to support brokers in retirement lending sector

Legal & General Home Finance has outlined a new strategy to invest in the...

What does auto-enrolment mean for later life advisers?

Every employer now has a pension scheme. Thanks to auto-enrolment, which was introduced in...

Millennials trading lower retirement income for home ownership dream

New research from Prudential has found that millennials are chasing the home ownership dream...

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

Wider mortgage options put borrower circumstances in focus on Lenders Live

Borrowers with historic credit problems and smaller deposits have more routes to explore, but...

Christodoulides joins ConveyBuddy as head of distribution

Former NatWest national account manager Luke Christodoulides has joined ConveyBuddy as head of distribution. Christodoulides...

MorganAsh adds BSL translation to customer websites

MorganAsh has introduced British Sign Language translations across its corporate website and itswhoiam.me consumer...

London flat owners face highest risk of resale losses

Nearly four in 10 London flats resold after being held for between five and...

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