Later Life

Almost £800bn in property equity available for release

Canada Life has calculated that nearly £800 billion of equity was available for release...

Air Sourcing integrates Just Adviser Portal

Air Group has launched the Just API link on its Air Sourcing platform. Air Group...

Later Life Lending Network offers two new deals

The Later Life Lending Network is now offering access to both the more2life Flexi...

LiveMore creates four-tier structure to product range

LiveMore Capital has revised its entire product range for borrowers aged 50 to 90+. Instead...

Record figures for the equity release market

The Equity Release Council has revealed that the number of new and returning equity...

Trussle: longer mortgages set to eat into pensions

The next generation of homeowners may well be paying off their mortgages into retirement,...

Pure Retirement appoints CFO

Pure Retirement has announced the appointment of Eleanor Thornhill as its new chief financial...

Equity Release Summit to focus on gifting and green finance

The Equity Release Council's Equity Release Summit, which will take place next month, will...

Mandatory face-to-face legal advice returns to equity release

All customers considering an equity release product will now be required to have at...

TMA Club partners with the Vernon BS

TMA Club has entered into a partnership with Vernon Building Society, whereby Directly Authorised (DA)...

Equity Release Council advisers offered lower PI premiums

Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe SE is offering eligible Equity Release Council adviser-members discounted professional...

LiveMore Capital partners with Specialist Mortgage Group

LiveMore Capital has partnered with brokerage Specialist Mortgage Group (SMG). The new partnership allows SMG’s...

BestAdvice appoints special projects editor

Simon Read has joined BestAdvice as its special projects editor. Read (pictured) will initially be...

2022 will be the toughest year for fixed-income retirees

If people were in any doubt about what the cost of living crisis looks...

COMMENT

I’m 49. My dad’s 73. Between us we’ve found the hole in later life lending

I turn 50 in December, and the marketing has already started. Funeral plans, over-50s life cover, “guaranteed acceptance” adverts wedged between the football highlights....

Buying scale was phase one. What happens next?

Mortgage distribution is in a race for scale. Capital wants market share. Consolidators want distribution. Networks want advisers. Good businesses are commanding serious valuations. If I...

Slow completions are costing brokers. Five steps can help protect their pipelines

Through my conversations with mortgage brokers, and Landmark’s work across the wider home-moving process, I see the same pattern repeatedly. Once a mortgage has...

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...

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Wider mortgage options put borrower circumstances in focus on Lenders Live

Borrowers with historic credit problems and smaller deposits have more routes to explore, but...

Christodoulides joins ConveyBuddy as head of distribution

Former NatWest national account manager Luke Christodoulides has joined ConveyBuddy as head of distribution. Christodoulides...

MorganAsh adds BSL translation to customer websites

MorganAsh has introduced British Sign Language translations across its corporate website and itswhoiam.me consumer...

London flat owners face highest risk of resale losses

Nearly four in 10 London flats resold after being held for between five and...

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