Later Life

Buckinghamshire BS cuts rates across whole range

Buckinghamshire Building Society has reduced rates by up to 0.20 percentage points across a...

Just 1% real-term rise in weekly pension income over past decade

People on pension incomes have received minimal increases in real standards of living over...

LiveMore ups max loan and allows more adverse

LiveMore has increased the maximum loan value across its core range of products from...

MBE London and FIBA Summit programmes published

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has issued the programme for this year’s MBE London event. The...

Air outlines headline speakers for National Later Life Lending Conference

Air, the later life lending network, has announced the industry speakers who will headline...

Hodge, Livemore & Air Mortgage Club back later life events

Hodge, Livemore and the Air Mortgage Club are supporting the ‘Later Life Lending Collaboration,...

Legal & General Home Finance improves PTLM accessibility

Legal & General Home Finance has revised its Payment Term Lifetime Mortgage (PTLM) proposition...

Wilson and Tweed to leave as Air revamps senior team

Air has outlined the make-up of its new senior leadership team. Over the past...

Equity Release Council launches legal guide & vulnerability insights report

The Equity Release Council has launched a Legal Guide to Equity Release as well...

Lending around retirement is changing

More than two-thirds of brokers say lending up to and into retirement in the...

Advise Wise appoints managing director

Advise Wise, the sourcing platform for later life advisers, has announced the appointment of...

Growing acceptance of borrowing into older age

61% of homeowners in the UK - equivalent to 18.7 million people – are...

LiveMore cuts five-year mortgage rates

LiveMore has reduced rates across a series of products by up to 0.58%. The cuts...

Legal & General to back Later Life Lending Collaboration adviser events

There are to be a series of free Later Life Lending Collaboration adviser events...

COMMENT

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

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...

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Brokers urged to strengthen sanctions checks

Mortgage and financial services firms are being urged to review their sanctions controls after...

OneDome named among Europe’s fastest-growing fintech firms

OneDome has been named one of the fastest-growing fintech companies in Europe, the Middle...

Foundation raises maximum residential lending age to 80

Foundation Home Loans has increased its maximum residential lending age from 75 to 80...

First-time buyers wait six years to buy as lifestyle priorities reshape purchasing decisions

First-time buyers are spending an average of six years saving for a deposit as...

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