Later Life

Rise in downsizing enquiries to release equity

Bower Retirement Services has claimed that around one in five clients have looked into downsizing their house...

Max Wright becomes PTFS chairman

Former CEO of Personal Touch Financial Services, Max Wright, has now now taken on his new...

Pension freedoms may have sharpened retirement planning

Around 631,000 people in the country plan to use all or part of their...

New corporate pensions reporting service unveiled

Scottish Widows has launched a corporate pension reporting service for employers. The Scottish Widows Corporate...

Over-50s using shares to boost retirement income

One in three over-50s have bought shares in a company to help fund their...

MBE London announces seminar line-up

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced the series of seminars it will be holding...

Zopa hails the ‘silver pound’

Zopa, which has just become the UK’s first peer-to-peer lender to pass £1 billion...

Investment income just 6% of retired household income

MetLife analysis of ONS data on household income shows that benefits make up nearly...

L&G hires retirement market chief

Legal & General has appointed Andy Humphreys as its marketing director for individual retirement....

“Clear and growing demand” to access home property wealth

41% of homeowners approaching retirement are now banking on their property wealth as part...

L&G doubles its lifetime mortgage target

Legal & General has doubled its target for lifetime mortgages and now expect to...

16-24 year-olds in a dream world over pensions

Latest research from Aegon UK suggests young adults are the most unrealistic about their...

Review into financial advice access unveiled

A new review looking at how financial advice could work better for consumers has...

LV= invests in ‘robo-adviser’ 

Retirement player LV= has taken a majority stake in automated advice business Wealth Wizards. LV=...
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COMMENT

Opinions & blogs

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...

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Technology

Coadjute joins FCA AI testing programme as conveyancers face tougher AML regime

Coadjute has joined the Financial Conduct Authority’s AI Live Testing programme as conveyancing firms...
Appointments

Morrow hire to lead intermediary growth strategy

Morrow has appointed Amit Gupta as financial services director as it looks to expand...
Homebuying

Russell Quirk calls out broken transaction system

UK mortgage and property professionals have been urged to rethink the homebuying process after Russell...
Technology

Newcastle updates broker portal for faster product transfers

Newcastle for Intermediaries has upgraded its broker portal to make product transfers quicker and...

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