Later Life

Twenty7Tec launches equity release sourcing

Twenty7Tec has unveiled what it claims to be the UK’s first "truly blended" sourcing...

Retirement Advantage offers equity release lead generation workshops

Retirement Advantage has announced a series of lead generation training workshops to help advisers...

Retirement lending market set to surpass £142bn by 2027

Over 65s will have amassed a record £86bn of debt in 2018, up from...

L&G joins up with Twenty7Tec for lifetime mortgage sourcing

Legal & General has announced a new partnership with Twenty7Tec that will see the...

Key Partnerships becomes latest provider partner for Panacea Adviser

Panacea Adviser, an online community and resource for financial advisers and paraplanners, has announced...

FSE: more later life lending advisers will be needed

The later life lending sector has sufficient advisers to cope with demand at present...

KR Group extends FSE backing

Key Retirement Group (KR Group) is supporting advisers aiming to develop their businesses in...

Sir Steve Webb to keynote National Later Life Conference

Answers in Retirement, the organisers of the inaugural National Later Life Conference, has announced the...

Key Retirement takes stake in AIR Group

Key Retirement Group (KR Group) has acquired a stake in Answers in Retirement Group...

More 2 Life expects over £1bn in equity release applications

More 2 Life says it is on track for over £1bn of loan applications in...

Property wealth used for diverse range of retirement reasons

Older homeowners are tapping in to property wealth to fund a diverse range of...

Equity release growth driven by gifting

Key Retirement has found that gifting is continuing to drive expansion in the equity...

50 ways to draw your pension

Having heard Paul Simon’s announcement that he was going to stop performing, I thought...

SimplyBiz Group reveals Advice Show line up

SimplyBiz Group is to host a mortgage, general insurance and protection focussed online broadcast 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...

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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