Later Life

Air Group partners with St. James’s Place

Air Group has signed an agreement with wealth management group, St. James’s Place (SJP),...

LiveMore Capital bolsters leadership team

LiveMore Capital has announced the appointment of Simon Webb as managing director of capital...

Key: £4bn equity release market record on the horizon

Equity release adviser Key has reveal that the equity release market is on course...

Advisers need to re-engage with later life clients

Air Mortgage Club has published the final results from its ‘Later Life Lending Census’...

£10bn rise in available UK housing equity

Canada Life has calculated that over £740 billion of equity was available for release...

Myths, mistrust and family worries remain equity release issues

Equity release is still an area of personal finance which many homeowners feel unsure...

Hodge reduces holiday let, 50+ and RIO rates

Hodge has cut its rates on holiday let mortgages by 0.10 percentage points at...

More2life reaches £5bn in loans under management

Equity release lender, more2life, has revealed that it now has £5 billion of loans...

Changing patterns in equity release usage

Customers are continuing to use equity release to clear existing mortgages while many have...

Later life lending misconception ‘battle’ still being fought

Air Mortgage Club has revealed further results from its ‘Later Life Lending Census’ of...

Age Partnership/Pure Retirement parent significantly improves profits

The group of associated companies including Age Partnership and Pure Retirement has posted improved...

Responsible Life hits later life milestone

Later life mortgage broker Responsible Life has broken through the £50 million monthly lending...

Hodge cuts RIO and 50+ mortgage rates

Hodge has reduced rates on its Retirement Interest Only (RIO) and 50+ mortgage products. Its...

Advise Wise unveils ‘price per pound’ sourcing feature

Advise Wise has introduced what it says is the market’s first ‘price per pound’...

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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