Later Life

Product flexibility continues to increase in equity release market

Key Partnerships has revealed that the number of equity release products has reached a...

Advise Wise provides adviser desktop application

Advise Wise has introduced a desktop application to allow advisers to access the Advise...

Pure Retirement offers ERC-free repayments across whole range 

Pure Retirement has made changes to its Sovereign range, providing ERC-free repayment opportunities and...

More2life urges advisers to respond to FCA’s call for a new Consumer Duty 

Equity release lender, more2life, is calling on advisers to respond to the Financial Conduct...

Hodge appoints national account manager

James Enos has been appointed by Hodge as its new national account manager for...

Record attendance for more2life symposium

Equity release lender, more2life, has revealed that the number of advisers who attended its...

Air Group launches guide to increase retirement funding customer engagement

18% of those aged 45 and above have not undertaken any retirement planning and...

Two-thirds without long-term plans for financial care

New research from Hodge has revealed that Just 33% of people have made financial...

more2life offers highest market LTVs with new plans

More2life has launched two new products, Maximum Choice Super 1 & 2, which offer...

Covid: millions of over-50s looking to relocate

Three million people in the country aged over 50 are considering relocating, as a...

Fluent Money partners with NerdWallet

Fluent Money Group is to work with NerdWallet as its exclusive partner for secured...

Retirement celebrations and how to fund them

For long marriages, who can name the wedding anniversaries? I will put you out...

Later life market should make more of technology

More2life's latest research has found that 36% of advisers think the later life lending...

LiveMore Capital to remove arrangement fees

LiveMore Capital is removing the arrangement fees on all new mortgage applications across its...

COMMENT

Busting the myths that stop homeowners protecting their income

In my role at LifeSearch, I spend a lot of time talking to mortgage advisers, brokers, and, increasingly, customers directly. One thing comes up time...

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Latest news

CHL cuts buy-to-let rates by up to 25bps

CHL Mortgages has reduced rates across its short-term let and limited edition buy-to-let ranges. The...

Darlington cuts rates across buy-to-let and specialist ranges

Darlington Building Society has reduced mortgage rates by up to 50bps across its buy-to-let,...

HTB backs £2.4m Mitcham scheme

Hampshire Trust Bank has provided a £2.4m development finance facility for a mixed-use scheme in...

The Mansfield reports record mortgage lending for second year running

Mansfield Building Society has reported record mortgage lending for the second successive year, after...

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