Later Life

Majority of 50-79-year-olds distrust financial services providers

There is an “alarming” lack of trust in financial service providers among those aged...

Hodge improves later life criteria

Hodge is making criteria enhancements to its later life mortgage products on 9 October. The...

HLP provides free membership to Air Academy

Air has revealed plans to partner with HLP to boost the network’s proposition to...

Later life market ‘soft skills’ more important than ever

In the later life lending space we’ve always talked a lot about the need...

Advise Wise joins Folding@home initiative

Advise Wise has announced its partnership with Folding@home, a distributed computing project aimed at...

Pure Retirement reintroduces Heritage Freedom range

Pure Retirement has announced the reintroduction of its Heritage Freedom range, offering customers repayment...

Advise Wise adds Just online application submission

Advise Wise has introduced online application submission for Just products to its later life...

Air Sourcing makes charity donation to Alzheimer’s Society

Air, the later life lending platform, will mark World Alzheimer's Day by donating £6,000...

LiveMore introduces ‘counter-offer’ feature for brokers

LiveMore has unveiled a ‘counter-offer’ facility on its later life platform. Brokers just need to...

Advise Wise introduces Fact Find and Suitability Letter System

Following the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) comprehensive review of the equity release marketplace, Advise...

Three-quarters of 50-80-year-olds worried about cost-of-living

78% of homeowners aged between 50 and 80 are feeling the effects of the...

FCA finds substandard advice in later life lending market

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reviewed the later life lending market and worked...

Air introduces later life lending Navigator tool suite

Air has announced the launch of its new Later Life Lending Navigator, which has...

Majority of adults have poor understanding of pensions

Research from Phoenix Group’s longevity think tank Phoenix Insights found that general pensions knowledge...

COMMENT

Commonhold reform: Devil in the detail

The government's language on leasehold reform remains forthright. Ministers speak of, “bringing the feudal leasehold system to an end,” of returning power to homeowners...

Managing cashflow and risk in today’s turbulent market

Over the past decade buy-to-let landlords have become accustomed to operating in a market where it can often feel like change is the only...

Is there such thing as a ‘typical borrower’ anymore?

What is a typical borrower? A few decades ago, it would have been a salaried employee, single source of income and, most likely, a...

Private credit has reached its next stage of maturity

Every lending market experiences moments that prompt uncomfortable questions. A high profile default, allegations of poor governance or a significant loss inevitably lead to...

Your clients aren’t being stolen… they’re being handed over

Let's be honest about something the industry won't say out loud. Lenders going direct aren't the problem. Brokers are. Every year the same conversation happens....

Latest news

Commonhold reform: Devil in the detail

The government's language on leasehold reform remains forthright. Ministers speak of, “bringing the feudal...

TMG reports record monthly MetLife submissions

TMG recorded its highest monthly submission volume with MetLife, exceeding its previous record by...

Leek raises earned income age limit to 75

Leek Building Society has introduced eight lending criteria changes covering income, contractors, later-life borrowing...

Coventry cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates for new and...

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