Later Life

TMA Club adds Scottish BS to lender panel

TMA Club has announced the launch of a new partnership with the Scottish Building...

Equity release resumed growth path before Truss market turmoil

The Equity Release Council has reported that 2022 saw record activity with 93,421 new...

Advise Wise appoints national account manager

Advise Wise has announced the appointment of Daniel Edmondson as national account manager. Edmondson (pictured)...

Loughborough BS joins Advise Wise later life panel

Loughborough Building Society has been added to the later life lending panel of Advise...

LiveMore secures new £250m facility

LiveMore Capital has secured a credit facility of up to £250m from Citi taking...

Just Wealth and Just Mortgages surpass referral targets

Just Wealth, the financial services arm of national brokerage Just Mortgages, has reported that...

Equity release continuing to help loved ones

Lifetime mortgage customers are continuing to use the value of their property to help...

Pure Retirement appoints independent NED

Pure Retirement has announced the appointment of David Marlow as an independent non-executive director. Marlow...

LiveMore unveils rebrand

LiveMore has rebranded with messaging to highlight its new broader product range. Now offering capital...

New senior team for Equity Release Associates

Adviser network, Equity Release Associates (ERA), has made a pair of senior appointments. Justin Wysocki...

Advise Wise integrates state benefits calculator

Advise Wise has teamed up with Entitledto to integrate a state benefits calculator to...

Debt among over-55s becoming more common

39% of over-55s revealed that their outgoings exceeded their income during parts of 2022,...

Pure Retirement widens Classic product distribution

Pure Retirement has announced the widened distribution of its Classic range of lifetime mortgages. The...

LiveMore reduces rates by 50bps

LiveMore has reduced the rates on all of its products by 50 basis points. Rates...

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

SortRefer marks 17 years with record month for instructions and completions

SortRefer has marked its 17th anniversary after reporting its strongest monthly performance to date...

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...

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