Later Life

RESPONSIBLE LENDING DURING THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS

How can advisers support older customers through responsible lending during Covid-19? While everyone – often...

Impact Specialist Finance and UTB complete bridge for later life borrowers

Specialist broker and distributor, Impact Specialist Finance, and United Trust Bank (UTB) have completed on...

It’s vital to have access to all the options

With a mini-Budget or a non-Budget ‘Budget’ on its way imminently, the industry has...

THE NEED FOR FLEXIBILITY

Like every other industry, the later life lending sector has recently found itself having...

HELP IS AT HAND

The recent Later Life Lending report from BestAdvice found that marketing, time, regulation and...

FRONT & CENTRE

Improving consumer understanding and dealing with issues around vulnerability are critical if the later...

More2life launches first stage of Iress integration

Iress has unveiled the first part of an integration with the more2life API (application...

Equity release demand could rise from interest-only ‘crunch’

An ‘interest-only mortgage crunch’ could see a wave of over-55s looking to equity release...

Equity Release Council updates adviser checklist

The Equity Release Council has made an update to a key safeguard that highlights...

Iress and Pure Retirement team up for integration

Pure Retirement has partnered with Iress to create a streamlined sourcing-to-application journey for advisers...

BestAdvice holds later life lending roundtable

BestAdvice recently held a virtual roundtable, following the publication of its Later Life Lending...

Key Partnerships agrees referral deal with Tenet Group

Equity release referral service, Key Partnerships, has announced a new referral partnership with the...

Advise Wise unveils new tree planting initiative

Advise Wise is launching an eco-friendly initiative where a tree is planted for every...

Hodge improves conveyancing options

Hodge has appointed ULS Technology as its solicitor panel management service provider. It has 91...

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

Hope Capital expands Shawbrook funding facility

Hope Capital Property Finance has increased its committed funding facility with Shawbrook Bank to...

Pivotal linked to Beneficial Network deal

LSL Property Services is understood to have agreed a deal involving Beneficial mortgage network...

London leads rental growth as supply shortage keeps rents high

London recorded the strongest monthly increase in average rents as demand continued to outstrip...

TMG reports record monthly MetLife submissions

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

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