Later Life

Key Advice appoints director of advice and adviser services

Key Advice has announced the appointment of Rachel East as its new director of...

Family BS announces owner-occupier and BTL rate cuts

Family Building Society has launched an updated range of reduced-price owner-occupier repayment and interest-only...

Equity Release Council launches retrofit lifetime mortgage guide

The Equity Release Council has published new guidance for member firms to consider when...

LiveMore cuts rates by up to 106bps

LiveMore has made widespread rate reductions across its range of products, with cuts of...

Equity Release Group grows management team

Equity Release Group (ERG) has announced three new hires that will join the group’s...

Major rise in 10-15yr mortgage searches from over-50s

Legal & General has revealed that broker search data from its Ignite platform shows...

LiveMore appoints national account manager

LiveMore has promoted Darren Cunliffe to the role of national account manager. His appointment follows...

Advise Wise integrates with Canada Life via API

Advise Wise has announced the introduction of its latest API integration with Canada Life. The...

Buckinghamshire BS launches five-year fixed rate RIO mortgage

Buckinghamshire Building Society has launched a five-year fixed rate retirement interest-only mortgage product. The five-year...

Homeowners aged 55+ more tech savvy than previously thought

New research has found that 62% of UK homeowners aged 55+ would look to...

Hodge makes further 50+ and RIO rate reductions

For the second time this month, Hodge is reducing rates across a range of...

15% rise in Q2 equity release lending

Latest quarterly market data shows that new equity release customer numbers increased by 12%...

Phoebus servicing over £20bn in equity release

Phoebus has revealed that it now services more than £20 billion of equity release...

Hanley Economic BS cuts RIO rates

Hanley Economic Building Society has reduced rates by up to 1.24% on a pair...

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

Net zero rules targeted in housebuilding shake-up

The Conservatives have pledged to strip as much as £50,000 from the cost of...

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...

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