Later Life

Standard Life Home Finance introduces weekly later life lending broker clinics

Standard Life Home Finance has announced the launch of a new series of online...

More2life lowers Maxi lifetime mortgage ERCs

More2life has reduced the early repayment charges (ERCs) on its Maxi range of lifetime...

LiveMore cuts lifetime rates

LiveMore has reduced rates on its lifetime mortgages. LiveMore’s Lifetime Mortgage – Lite pricing...

Early 2040s will see retirement income crisis point reached

The UK is less than two decades from crisis point where nearly three in...

Equity Release Council to hold later life summit with AMI

The Equity Release Council is launching the Later Life Lending Summit in collaboration with...

Perenna cuts purchase, remortgage and RIO rates

Perenna has reduced rates across its purchase, remortgage and retirement interest-only (RIO) products. RIO...

Millennials’ life events impacting on future retirement plans

59% of millennials are struggling to save for retirement but hope to save more...

Advise Wise unveils new cost calculator tool

Advise Wise has announced the launch of its Cost Calculator tool. It allows advisers to...

Pure Retirement adds interest servicing option to Heritage range

Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has launched an interest servicing option across its Heritage...

Compliance consultancy joins Equity Release Council

Financial services consultancy and operations specialist, Square 4, has become the latest member of...

Advise Wise introduces platform medical detail improvements

Advise Wise now allows advisers to input clients’ medical information using metric units for...

More2life launches ERC-free lifetime mortgage

More2life has launched the first ever lifetime mortgage where no early repayment charges (ERCs)...

Royal London partners with Advise Wise

Royal London Equity Release's Principal product in now available to all advisers through the...

The Right Mortgage launches later life accreditation scheme

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network and its subsidiary, the Later Life Lending Network,...

COMMENT

The industry needs to prepare now for Your First Home

The government’s announcement of the Your First Home scheme is genuinely positive news, and anything that boosts confidence among first-time buyers and people trying...

Why advisers can be part of the conveyancing team

There is a tendency to think the mortgage adviser’s involvement in conveyancing begins with recommending a firm and then largely ends once the client...

Why the AI revolution could be a golden age for financial advice

Every major technological shift creates the same debate: will it empower professionals to do more, or eventually replace them? Artificial intelligence is simply the latest...

Should mortgage advisers consider the emerging secondary market for life policies?

Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...

One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

Latest news

Tories put stamp duty abolition at heart of housing shake-up

The Conservatives have pledged again to scrap stamp duty as part of a housing...

Target Group adds Carla Stent to board

Target Group has appointed Carla Stent as a non-executive director, adding further financial services,...

Later life lending summit to focus on changing advice needs

Mortgage advisers will be encouraged to consider how longer borrowing lives and increasingly complex...

National Friendly launches mortgage-linked income protection cover

National Friendly has launched a short-term income protection product designed to cover mortgage payments...

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