Later Life

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...

Call for easy mortgage to equity release transition

Lenders need to focus plans for equity release innovation on schemes enabling customers to...

More people choosing to phase their retirement

LV= has revealed that 87% of people working aged 65 and over are happy...

London equity release loans up 12%

Homeowners in London have released an average of almost £150,000 from their properties to...

COMMENT

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

Latest news

The Mortgage Works cuts buy-to-let rates on selected new business deals

The Mortgage Works is cutting selected buy-to-let and let-to-buy rates by up to 0.20...

Primis promotes three in push to expand recruitment and regional broker support

Primis has promoted three senior executives as it seeks to recruit more adviser firms...

Santander cuts higher LTV rates for first-time buyers and home movers

Santander is cutting selected fixed mortgage rates across its first-time buyer, home mover and...

Virgin Money cuts fixed rates and raises selected tracker pricing

Virgin Money is reducing fixed mortgage rates across purchase, remortgage and selected buy-to-let product...

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