Later Life

Property wealth continues to rise for retired homeowners

KeyRetirement.com has revealed that retired homeowners have seen their property wealth grow by £9.24...

Bower votes for Commons charity dinner

Equity release specialist Bower Retirement Services is backing Pancreatic Cancer UK and Saint Francis...

Aldermore to hold seminars at MBE Bristol Expo

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced a joint seminar programme with Aldermore at the...

FCA bans pair for “lack of integrity”

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned Mark Kelly and Patrick Gray from working...

Largeequityrelease.com joins PMS referral panel

Largeequityrelease.com has become a master broker on PMS's new specialist lending panel for equity...

LV= added to L&G Later Life panel

Legal & General Mortgage Club has added LV= to its direct to lender Later Life Lending...

Only 28% of retirees expect to leave an inheritance

The Prudential has reported that the proportion of new retirees who know they will...

Majority expect to work in retirement

An online poll by Retiresavvy.co.uk of over 2,000 Britons has found that 59% expect to...

AIR Sourcing goes live

AIR Sourcing, a new sourcing system for equity release and retirement lending products, has gone live with...

TenetLime expands mortgage panel

TenetLime has expanded its whole of market mortgage panel with the addition of four...

Cap on early pension exit charges proposed

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced the level at which it will consult...

OneFamily Lifetime Mortgages joins the Equity Release Council

The Equity Release Council has welcomed OneFamily Lifetime Mortgages to its membership. This follows the...

L&G acquires annuity portfolio for £3bn

Legal & General has acquired a £3bn annuity portfolio from Aegon. The transaction has been...

Sales up at OneFamily

OneFamily has reported its 2015 annual results. The business was created out of last year’s...

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Why rigid credit scoring is locking too many people out of homeownership

Some people don’t fit the mould. That’s always been true in mortgage lending. But the tools used by most lenders to assess borrowers, particularly...

What a bigger market means for brokers

The latest Interpath and BDLA UK Bridging Market Survey confirms what many brokers are already experiencing on the ground, that bridging has hit the...

How social media can bridge the protection disconnect

The latest AMI Protection Viewpoint provided a compelling snapshot of the challenges and opportunities facing the protection market. The research highlights a worrying pattern that...

Opening doors for credit-worthy but overlooked clients

It doesn’t take much these days for a borrower to feel they’ve fallen out of favour with the system. A missed payment here, a...

Ministerial cock-ups could kill radical property taxes

At first it might appear that the mortgage industry and the housing sector as a whole should be cross with the Labour government. After all,...

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HTB backs £4m refinance for London landlord

Hampshire Trust Bank has completed a £4m semi-commercial refinance for an experienced landlord in...

MPC narrowly votes to hold rates at 4% as calls for a cut grow louder

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has come within a whisker of...

UTB backs £16.5m Surrey developments by Rushmon Homes

United Trust Bank (UTB) is providing £10.7m in acquisition and development finance to support...

Octopus Capital funds two new care homes

Octopus Capital has completed a £30 million forward funding agreement with Synergy Care Developments...

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