Later Life

Renting is ruining retirement dreams

The latest data from the Hargreaves Lansdown Savings and Resilience Barometer shows only 42%...

Silver Marketing Association launches 50 Shades of Silver report

The Silver Marketing Association have launched a new report offering insight into segmenting the...

Ann Harris reappointed to MaPS board

The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) has announced that Ann Harris has been reappointed...

LiveMore establishes social bond framework

LiveMore Capital has set up a social bond framework as part of its Environmental,...

Air Academy announces series of Masterclass events

Air Academy, the CPD training provider for the later life lending sector, has announced...

Consumers seeking financial guidance during cost of living crisis

50% of UK consumers think information around pensions and retirement is overwhelming, and 41%...

Key partners with Contact State

Key has announced a new partnership with the marketing technology platform Contact State. This...

LiveMore expands sales team

LiveMore has appointed three new sales staff. Matthew Butt has been appointed as business development...

More2life launches online tools for advisers

More2life has launched a new suite of online tools to support advisers in finding...

Almost 4m older workers feel age discrimination

New research from Canada Life shows that 19% of workers aged 55 and over...

LiveMore makes further rate reductions

LiveMore have reduced rates by 22 basis points across its LiveMore 1 range for...

Advisers call for more support from late life product providers

A study from Air, the platform for later life lending professionals, has revealed that...

Legal & General Home Finance improves lifetime mortgage offering

Legal & General Home Finance has announced improvements to its Lifetime Mortgage range, which...

Pure Retirement refreshes Heritage lifetime mortgages for the over-80s

Pure Retirement has reintroduced its Heritage range of lifetime mortgages to the later life...

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

The Mortgage Works cuts buy-to-let rates on selected new business deals

The Mortgage Works is cutting selected buy-to-let and let-to-buy rates by up to 0.20...

Primis promotes three in push to expand recruitment and regional broker support

Primis has promoted three senior executives as it seeks to recruit more adviser firms...

Santander cuts higher LTV rates for first-time buyers and home movers

Santander is cutting selected fixed mortgage rates across its first-time buyer, home mover and...

Virgin Money cuts fixed rates and raises selected tracker pricing

Virgin Money is reducing fixed mortgage rates across purchase, remortgage and selected buy-to-let product...

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