Later Life

Private equity fund takes majority stake in KRS

Key Retirement Solutions has announced the sale of a majority stake of the KRS...

Bridgewater outlines ‘masterclass’ schedule

Bridgewater Equity Release has published details of its next four Equity Release Advice Masterclass...

LV= cuts lifetime rates

LV='s lifetime mortgage interest rates have been cut by 20 basis points. For customers up...

Solvency II could scupper equity release

Those of us that work in the equity release industry are fully aware of...

Bridgewater outlines changing reasons for equity release

Bridgewater Equity Release has reported that its customers are increasingly using equity release to...

Financial advice for older people on parliamentary agenda

The Equity Release Council will join MPs and peers today for a specially convened...

Retirement savings reach all-time low

Only 45% of those who could and should be preparing financially for their old...

Bridgewater offers equity release guide for divorce

Bridgewater’s latest ‘Just a thought...’ sales aid tackles the issue of ‘Divorce Rescue’ and...

Property the ‘golden egg’ in inheritance plans

25% of over-75s and 21% of over-55s have given a cash loan to family...

One-third of Brits not planning for later life financing

31% of British adults do not know how they will finance their needs in...

Vital to capitalise on adviser interest in equity release

The equity release sector received a shot in the arm recently in the form...

Equity release misconceptions continue

A home reversion specialist has warned that advisers active in the equity release sector...

Equity Release Council decries ‘knowledge and policy vacuum’

Nigel Waterson, chairman of the Equity Release Council has called for action to deal...

Partnership equity release products now available via PMS

PMS Mortgage Club has announced the addition of Partnership to its lender panel....
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COMMENT

Analysis

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

Building societies need to start putting intelligence into motion

If you were at the Building Societies Association Annual Conference in Edinburgh last month , you could not have missed the optimism: the sector...

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 21

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter's (MIMHC) third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge finally came to an end on Friday 15th May as...

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 20

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter's (MIMHC) third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge finally came to an end on Friday 15th May as...

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Housing

UK risks two-tier energy transition without home investment

The UK risks creating a "two-tier" energy transition unless cleaner and smarter technologies are...
legal

MSB solicitor recognised with Future Leader award at British LGBT Awards

MSB Solicitors is marking Pride Month after one of its solicitors was named Future...
News

The Yorkshire appoints two non-executive directors

Yorkshire Building Society has appointed Barry O’Dwyer and Philippa Brown as independent non-executive directors. The...
banks

HSBC cuts rates across residential and buy-to-let mortgage ranges

HSBC UK is reducing rates across a broad selection of residential and buy-to-let mortgage...

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