Later Life

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...

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...

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...

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Ireland boosts Help to Buy as UK prepares new first-time buyer scheme

Ireland has increased the maximum support available to first-time buyers under its Help to...

Reeves ranked least successful of five recent chancellors in poll

Rachel Reeves has been rated the least successful of the past five chancellors in...

Teachers for Intermediaries raises new-build LTV limit to 95%

Teachers for Intermediaries has increased its maximum LTV on new-build houses and flats to...

Cambridge BS opens applications for deposit-building Rent to Home scheme

The Cambridge Building Society has opened applications for its Rent to Home property in...

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