Later Life

Hodge cuts 50+ and RIO rates

Hodge is making another set of rate reductions across its range of 50+ and...

More needs-based borrowing from lifetime mortgage cash releases

Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has discovered a mixed picture among those who access...

One third of older homeowners see themselves as vulnerable

32% of people aged 50–79 years consider themselves vulnerable, according to a LiveMore survey...

Large variation in consumer vulnerability across key sectors

The latest data from the MorganAsh Resilience System (MARS) has revealed that firms using...

The Later Life Lending Network reveals conference and winter ball plans

The Later Life Lending and Equity Release Network, part of The Right Mortgage, has...

Advise Wise adds Early Repayment Charge period sorting feature

Advise Wise, the later life sourcing platform, has launched a new feature allowing advisers...

Managing the FCA’s later life mortgage expectations

Our sector continues to dissect September’s FCA review focused on the ‘Action needed to...

Q3 new lifetime mortgage data split between aspiration and necessary

Pure Retirement has published its analysis of its Q3 loan usage data for new...

Retirement being reconsidered as people grapple with cost-of-living crisis

49% of people approaching retirement are rethinking their plans as the high cost of living...

Equity release market returns to growth

The Equity Release Council has reported that the equity release market has seen growth...

Cost of living crisis creating £32bn hole in savings pots

The latest Cost of Living research from Royal London has established that the cost...

Later life sector deemed important by 84% of property professionals

A webinar poll undertaken by Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) saw 84% of property professionals...

Advise Wise adds later life market events web page

Advise Wise has launched new Market Events web page. It is designed to serve as...

Hodge cuts rates across RIO mortgage range by up to 40bps

Hodge has announced cuts to its later life lending products, with rates across its...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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