Later Life

Advise Wise begins ‘Ask Jane’ legal month

Advise Wise has launched its ‘Ask Jane legal month’ from today (1 October), with...

Pure Retirement adds new features to website

Pure Retirement has made further changes to its website, offering product information, a new...

Legal & General Mortgage Club adds LiveMore Capital to panel

Later life lending provider LiveMore Capital has joined the panel of Legal & General...

Advisers want more resource to deal with vulnerability

Equity release lender more2life has published a report examining into adviser and consumer attitudes...

Royal London moves into equity release space

Royal London has teamed up with later life mortgage adviser, Responsible Life, to enter...

The Right Mortgage expands team

The Right Mortgage has expand its team with several recent appointments to support the...

Jon Tweed joins Air Group as a consultant

Air Group has recruited industry veteran, Jon Tweed, as a consultant to develop its...

Young people could be nudged to a better retirement

A new Scottish Widows study has stated that almost two million younger people could have...

Key Partnerships introduces new retirement funding tool

Equity release referral service, Key Partnerships, has launch its new Retirement Funding Tool, which it...

Retirement market changing due to fragmentation

Canada Life has highlighted two 'retirement journeys' that are increasing dramatically among consumers and...

LiveMore moves into house purchase market

LiveMore Capital has extended Retirement Interest Only (RIO) product range to include purchase mortgage...

Historic lows for equity release rates

The Equity Release Council has reported that average rates for equity release products reached...

Key creates head of sales and operations role

Equity release advisory firm Key has boosted its estate planning team with the recruitment...

LiveMore Capital joins Brilliant panel

Brilliant Solutions has added LiveMore Capital to its lender panel. LiveMore Capital specialises in interest-only...

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

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...

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

Rely has reduced rates by up to 25 basis points across a range of...

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