Later Life

Life is just one long holiday

We are approaching the end of the holiday season. If you have had a...

Equity release competition drives down cost of borrowing

Key Retirement has reported that equity release customers are saving up to, or in...

More 2 Life appoints sales manager

More 2 Life has announced the appointment of Catherine Casey as its new sales manager. Casey...

Drawdown market booming post-pension freedoms

Drawdown has become the most popular option for retirees, growing from 15% of retirement...

More 2 Life achieves lending milestone

More 2 Life has announced that it has surpassed £1bn of lending, along with a...

Air Sourcing adds Mansfield’s later life offering

Equity Release Club and AIR Sourcing have announced a new relationship with the Mansfield Building...

L&G Mortgage Club outlines autumn event schedule

Legal & General Mortgage Club has published its calendar of Autumn events that focus...

Equity release ‘helps 13 people a week onto housing ladder’

Retirement Advantage estimate that in the first half of 2017, 13 first-time buyers were...

Positive Lending launches Hodge Lifetime 55 Plus mortgage

Positive Lending has added Hodge Lifetime to its lender panel.  Hodge Lifetime’s 55 Plus mortgage...

UK equity release potential ‘tops £370bn’

Research from Retirement Advantage has found that the potential wealth collectively available to over-55s...

Missed opportunity?

In 2012, when Alan was 60, a member of his family got themselves into...

Retirees emotionally attached to family home

More 2 Life research gas found that the single biggest barrier to retirees downsizing is...

LLA offers new membership benefits

The Later Life Academy (LLA) has launched a new ‘Strength in Numbers’ campaign designed to...

Retirement discounts being overestimated

25% of UK adults are relying on discounts and subsidies to make their retirement...

COMMENT

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...

Why the AI revolution could be a golden age for financial advice

Every major technological shift creates the same debate: will it empower professionals to do more, or eventually replace them? Artificial intelligence is simply the latest...

Should mortgage advisers consider the emerging secondary market for life policies?

Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...

One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

Latest news

Ireland boosts Help to Buy as UK prepares new first-time buyer scheme

Ireland has increased the maximum support available to first-time buyers under its Help to...

Reeves ranked least successful of five recent chancellors in poll

Rachel Reeves has been rated the least successful of the past five chancellors in...

Teachers for Intermediaries raises new-build LTV limit to 95%

Teachers for Intermediaries has increased its maximum LTV on new-build houses and flats to...

Cambridge BS opens applications for deposit-building Rent to Home scheme

The Cambridge Building Society has opened applications for its Rent to Home property in...

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