Later Life

Pure Retirement makes regional sales appointments

Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement is bolstering its support to equity release advisers with...

Standard Life Home Finance adds 25% interest-served offering

Standard Life Home Finance has expanded access to its Horizon Interest Reward product by...

Air reaches Comprehensive Conversations milestone

Air, the later-life lending platform, has announced that its Comprehensive Conversations Manifesto has achieved...

Gen Z expect part-time work even when retired

'Gen Z' intend to work part time or even set up their own business...

Rising demand for hybrid later life products

Air, the later-life lending platform, has launched its first Comprehensive Conversations Report, looking at...

LiveMore reduces all mortgage rates

LiveMore has reduced rates across all of its products. The self-styled mortgage lender for people...

Later life lending customer needs “have forever changed”

Last week, later life lending platform, Air, hosted its Comprehensive Conversations Roundtable. The roundtable featured...

More2life expands high LTV product offerings

More2life has announced the expansion of its range of high LTV products, including its...

Nokkel joins Equity Release Council

Nokkel, the house wealth and fintech platform, has joined the Equity Release Council. The Council...

Later Life Lending Network to hold roundtable workshop

The Later Life Lending Network, part of The Right Mortgage, has announced details of...

Legal & General Retail helps advisers with later life clients going through divorce

Legal & General Retail has introduced a handbook to help advisers support clients going...

Global equity release market forecast to hit $50bn by 2033

The European Pensions and Property Asset Release Group (EPPARG) and EY have published the...

Legal & General makes executive team changes within retail division

Legal & General Retail, the savings, protection and retirement arm of L&G, has announced...

Increased living costs resulting in rethinking of retirement plans

14% of retirees aged over 55 have gone back into work, as their living...

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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