Later Life

Hodge reverts to 70% LTV later life lending

Hodge is making some "positive" changes to its lending criteria and is resuming lending...

Advise Wise unveils new Upskill series

Following the Advise Wise Upskill live webinar sessions, which attracted over 500 participants, Advise...

Pure Retirement supports new My Care Consultant guide

Pure Retirement is supporting My Care Consultant with the launch of its new practical...

Key Partnerships agrees deal with Paradigm

Key Partnerships has announced a new referral partnership with Paradigm mortgage club. Key Partnerships is...

LV= resumes physical valuations for equity release

LV= is reintroducing physical valuations for new equity release customers, allowing them to resume...

The way forward

Q: Are non-equity release advisers often under a misapprehension about products? A: Without a doubt....

New CEO for Age Partnership

Equity release provider, Age Partnership Group, has appointed Steve Auckland as its new CEO. Auckland...

An evolving market

Q: Has equity release become mainstream? A: To an extent. I’ve been in the intermediary...

Responsible Lending unveils 2.45% lifetime mortgage

Responsible Lending has introduced a new lifetime mortgage at 2.45%. The introduction of the new...

Pure Retirement offers 40% annual repayments ERC-free

Pure Retirement has launched a new Heritage Freedom 40 product, offering customers the ability...

Later life report: advisers want changes to RIO rules

A new survey paints a picture of low levels of Retirement Interest-Only (RIO) mortgage...

Advise Wise joins Equity Release Council

Advise Wise has become the latest member of the Equity Release Council. Advise Wise will...

Later life lending: rate still king for advisers

Rate is the most important factor cited by advisers when recommending a later life...

Pure Retirement unveils new valuation processes

Pure Retirement has introduced a new valuation processes across its full product range, in...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

PROFILES