Later Life

Legal & General Mortgage Club offers RIO exclusive

Legal & General Home Finance is to offer an exclusive Retirement Interest Only (RIO)...

Air Group unveils new factfind and suitability report

Air Group has launched a new factfind and suitability report for advisers via Air...

Air Group and Knowledge Bank to hold Criteria Clinics

Air Group is offering a series of new ‘Criteria Clinics’ in conjunction with criteria...

Key’s customer facing staff to be Dementia Friends

Equity release advisory firm, Key, has arranged for its customer facing staff, totalling more than...

more2life to co-host Later Life Lending Symposium

More2life is to co-host the Later Life Lending Symposium with Key Partnerships and Air Group...

OneFamily unveils lifetime mortgage support for advisers

OneFamily has introduced a Lifetime Mortgage Knowledge Hub to support financial advisers with guides,...

H2 2020 recovery for equity release market

The Equity Release Council has reported that the total value of UK private property...

LiveMore widens LTV bands and cuts rates

Retirement Interest Only (RIO) mortgage provider, LiveMore Capital, has announced a reduction of its standard...

Reasons for equity release declines revealed

More2life has looked at the reasons why equity release cases are declined in order...

Equity Release Council refreshes brand and adds endorsement mark

The Equity Release Council has refreshed its branding to reflect the "innovative and vibrant...

New CFO for Key Group

Key Group has appointed Simon Drew as chief financial officer (CFO). Drew has spent over...

Average retired households paying 14% of income in tax

As the end of the tax year looms, equity release adviser Key has established...

TRM appoints equity release supervision & development manager

The Later Life Lending Network, the equity release proposition of The Right Mortgage and...

Hodge ups later life maximum LTV

Hodge has increased the maximum LTV from 70% to 75% across its 50+ and...

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

TPFG buys 25% stake in property and mortgage AI business Enteka

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) has taken a 25% stake in Enteka AI as...

Property professionals back homebuying reforms, CSS poll finds

More than three-quarters of property professionals believe proposed changes to the homebuying and selling...

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...

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