Later Life

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...

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...

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

Accord cuts buy-to-let rates by up to 0.43%

Accord Mortgages is reducing selected buy-to-let rates by up to 0.43 percentage points, with...

Mortgage Brain embeds LMS conveyancing service into CRM Brain

Mortgage Brain has integrated the LMS Select conveyancing platform directly into CRM Brain, allowing...

House prices stall as mortgage costs and Budget uncertainty weigh on market

UK house prices were unchanged in September as higher mortgage rates and wider economic...

Remortgage activity rebounds as higher rates weigh on home purchases

Remortgage applications returned to annual growth in the third quarter, helping to offset a...

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