Later Life

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...

LiveMore reinstates fee assisted mortgages and lowers RIO age

Specialist lender LiveMore is bringing back fee assisted mortgage products, which includes a free...

Pure Retirement appoints new head of distribution

Pure Retirement has announced the appointment of Scott Burman as head of distribution. Burman (pictured)...

MorganAsh: Key leads later life sector on vulnerability

Key Later Life Finance has reported positive results from its vulnerability assessments, with the...

Advisers have the quality and resilience to deliver in 2023

First up, let me wish everyone reading this a very Happy New Year. I...

Just Group to offer free EPCs

Retirement specialist Just Group is teaming up with Vibrant, property services company, to provide...

Envelop Network unveils later life lending panel

The Envelop Network has introduced a later life lending panel which includes 10 providers. The...

Standard Life becomes founding partner for new Samaritans Training School

Phoenix Group has announced that its Standard Life brand is the founding partner for...

Women more likely to view home as their security than men

With 26% equity release customers being single women (according to Key's Q3 Market Monitor), Standard...

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...

Latest news

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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