Later Life

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...

Air Sourcing adds new features around affordability

Air has made several updates to its Air Sourcing platform to help advisers in...

Equity Release Council provides clear communication guide for members

The Equity Release Council has published a new guide to help its members communicate...

Buckinghamshire BS reprices range and adds new deals

Buckinghamshire Building Society has launched two new mortgage products and repriced its whole existing...

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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