Later Life

Self-employed struggle to access financial products

Research from the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed (IPSE) and specialist mortgage...

TMA Club to provide resources on identifying vulnerability

53% of brokers who responded to a TMA Club survey say they are confident...

Equity Release Supermarket launches new group platform

Equity release advisory service, Equity Release Supermarket (ERS), has launched a new Equity Release Group...

Canada Life adds new Lifestyle Select products

Canada Life is improving its Lifestyle Select home finance product range, by introducing two...

Covid causing advisers to hold comprehensive client financial reviews

The Openwork Partnership has found that advisers are working hard to help clients review...

Advise Wise adds new legal hub and allows direct legal instruction

Advise Wise has unveiled a ‘Direct Instruction’ feature enabling advisers to instruct solicitors directly...

Attitudes changing to secured debt in retirement

45% of mortgaged homeowners under the age of 40 made it not the property...

Advisers and later life clients all want family involvement

Later life advisers and clients are aligned when it comes to the importance of...

Harpenden joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added Harpenden Building Society to its lender panel. Paradigm member firms...

Advisers want later life clients re-educated by industry

Advisers operating in the later life lending sector think the most important priority for...

Over a million people think they’ll never retire

Over a million UK workers (6%) believe that they will never retire, according to...

Later life lending demand only going in one direction

At the time of year, we in the industry tend to get asked what...

Older people feeling inflation rise the hardest

65% of people say the cost of living has risen in the past month, according...

Hodge appoints new business development manager

Hodge has appointed Hema Patel as the new business development manager for the north...

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...

Latest news

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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