Later Life

MorganAsh adds triage service to MARS vulnerability tool

MorganAsh has added a new triage service to its MARS vulnerability software, to help...

Equity release adviser’s TV ad banned

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a television ad from Age Partnership after...

MBE reveals London speakers and seminar programme

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced that Rob Elder from the Bank of England...

You can only advise on the later life market as it stands now

Moving swiftly past the half-way point of the year, provides us with six months...

Advise Wise adds EPC sourcing features

Advise Wise, an intermediary later life sourcing platform, has added new features designed to...

LiveMore cuts mortgage rates following fall in swap rates

24 hours since swap rates reduced, LiveMore has lowered rates across selected mortgage products...

Families now much more likely to be involved in equity release conversations

The Covid-19 pandemic and the cost of living crisis have impacted how open families...

Legal & General Home Finance improves lifetime mortgage repayment options

Legal & General Home Finance has enhanced its Optional Partial Repayments feature on its...

LiveMore unveils flexible ‘5+5’ fixed rate mortgage

LiveMore has launched a 10-year mortgage for borrowers aged 50 to 90+, but with...

Air Academy appoints head of academy learning

Air, the platform for later life lending professionals, has appointed Dan Holden into the...

LiveMore Property+ offers options for borrowers with spray foam insulation

Equity Release Supermarket (ERS) has partnered with later life mortgage provider, LiveMore, to provide...

Inflation hitting over-60s’ finances

40% of over-60s have poor or very poor financial resilience, according to the latest...

Reasons for equity release declines revealed

More2life has published data which highlights the top reasons cases are declined to help...

Advise Wise and Responsible Lending unveil API integration

Advise Wise has announced the integration of Responsible Lending into its platform. Advise Wise's...

COMMENT

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

Latest news

Brokers report rising caution among borrowers as remortgaging picks up

Mortgage brokers are seeing more remortgage activity, but say geopolitical uncertainty, cost of living...

Coadjute joins FCA AI testing programme as conveyancers face tougher AML regime

Coadjute has joined the Financial Conduct Authority’s AI Live Testing programme as conveyancing firms...

Morrow hire to lead intermediary growth strategy

Morrow has appointed Amit Gupta as financial services director as it looks to expand...

Russell Quirk calls out broken transaction system

UK mortgage and property professionals have been urged to rethink the homebuying process after Russell...

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