Later Life

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...

more2life updates Capital Choice product offering

Equity release lender, more2life, has made improvements to its Capital Choice product suite for...

Pure Retirement offers flexible pricing solution

Pure Retirement has launched a new flexible pricing methodology on its Classic lifetime mortgage...

SimplyBiz Mortgages and Key Group launch ‘Simply Later Life’

SimplyBiz Mortgages has introduced a new proposition, created in partnership with Key Group, to...

Over-55s’ interest-only a no-go area for large minority of brokers

A recent webinar LiveMore Capital held in conjunction with Knowledge Bank looked at what types...

Over-55s face tougher mortgage quest than the self-employed

Last month, while there was at least one lender able to meet the loan...

ERA launches pre-booked appointments for equity release advisers

Equity Release Associates (ERA) has unveils its new ‘Springboard Package’, providing pre-booked customer appointments...

Pure Retirement provides later life insights to brokers

Pure Retirement has launched various key market insight resources to helping advisers serve their...

Age Partnership hires 30 new advisers

Equity release broker, Age Partnership, is recruiting 30 new advisers to support the predicted...

How long will you live?

You have to be very careful how data is presented. I recently saw a social...

The Ipswich to incorporate later life into standard mortgage range

The Ipswich Building Society has decided to no longer be operating ‘later life’ mortgages aimed...

COMMENT

Commonhold reform: Devil in the detail

The government's language on leasehold reform remains forthright. Ministers speak of, “bringing the feudal leasehold system to an end,” of returning power to homeowners...

Managing cashflow and risk in today’s turbulent market

Over the past decade buy-to-let landlords have become accustomed to operating in a market where it can often feel like change is the only...

Is there such thing as a ‘typical borrower’ anymore?

What is a typical borrower? A few decades ago, it would have been a salaried employee, single source of income and, most likely, a...

Private credit has reached its next stage of maturity

Every lending market experiences moments that prompt uncomfortable questions. A high profile default, allegations of poor governance or a significant loss inevitably lead to...

Your clients aren’t being stolen… they’re being handed over

Let's be honest about something the industry won't say out loud. Lenders going direct aren't the problem. Brokers are. Every year the same conversation happens....

Latest news

Commonhold reform: Devil in the detail

The government's language on leasehold reform remains forthright. Ministers speak of, “bringing the feudal...

TMG reports record monthly MetLife submissions

TMG recorded its highest monthly submission volume with MetLife, exceeding its previous record by...

Leek raises earned income age limit to 75

Leek Building Society has introduced eight lending criteria changes covering income, contractors, later-life borrowing...

Coventry cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates for new and...

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