Later Life

Marsden BS boosts later life affordability

Marsden Building Society has improved its affordability model for mortgage customers aged 55 to...

Standard Life Home Finance improves Horizon LTVs

Standard Life Home Finance has added a new plan, Horizon 650, to its Horizon...

Buckinghamshire BS partners with Advise Wise

Buckinghamshire Building Society has announced a partnership with later life lending sourcing platform and...

Mortgage Intelligence partners with Air

Air, the later-life lending platform, has announced a new partnership with network Mortgage Intelligence. ...

Advise Wise updates research PDF for compliance and audit

Advise Wise has announced the release of its improved research PDF document. The sourcing...

Livemore’s Matching Engine provides borrowing boost

Intermediaries using LiveMore’s Matching Engine secure a 41% increase in the loan amounts they...

Pure Retirement revamps Emerald range

Pure Retirement has refreshed its Emerald range of lifetime mortgages, designed to offer consumers...

Hanley Economic BS adds fee-free residential and RIO offerings

Hanley Economic Building Society has introduced a fee-free two-year tracker and fee-free two-year fixed...

Over half of adults anticipate lower retirement standards

54% of UK adults believe that their generation's standard of living when retired will...

High-value properties being used for equity release

Pure Retirement has highlighted the popularity of modern equity release products among owners of...

Later life lending catering for increasingly diverse range of needs and audiences

Analysis of data from the first quarter of 2024 by lifetime mortgage lender Pure...

Three new heads of department at LiveMore

LiveMore has promoted and appointed three new heads of department across finance, compliance and...

More2life up maximum LTV on Flexi Choice products to 48%

More2life has announced that customers now can access higher LTVs across all age bands...

Pure Retirement ups Classic range LTVs

Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has increased LTVs on its Classic lifetime mortgages to...

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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