Later Life

Gatehouse Bank widens buy-to-let customer eligibility

Gatehouse Bank is making its range of buy-to-let products available to first-time buyers as...

Accord increases term limits

Accord Mortgages has changed its maximum term of 40 years and extended the age...

Expansion in the equity release market continues

The Equity Release Council has revealed that nearly £11 million of property wealth was unlocked...

Equity Release Supermarket sees above-industry average uplift

Equity Release Supermarket has reported that its applications to lenders rose by 10%, and...

Key Partnerships becomes SmartrRefer partner

Equity release referral service Key Partnerships has been selected as one of SmartrRefer partners,...

OneFamily joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added lifetime mortgage provider, OneFamily to its provider panel. Paradigm members...

Canada Life makes additional rate cuts on lifetime mortgage products

Canada Life has reduced the rates on six of its lifetime mortgage products. Four products...

Number of over-65s living alone up 15% over past 10 years

The Equity Release Council has reported that the total number of over-65s living alone...

Two new distribution services unveiled by Key

Equity release adviser Key has revealed a new distribution strategy, with a refreshed ‘whole...

Air LLA receives training endorsement

Air Later Life Academy's (LLA) training programme has been endorsed by The London Institute...

Impact Specialist Finance unveils specialist referral service

Impact Specialist Finance has launched a referral service for its broker partners. The service can...

Key Group appoints new non-exec director

Key Group has appointed Gillian Kent as non-executive director. Kent (pictured) has almost 30 years...

‘Last-time buyers’ would be helped by stamp duty action

Equity release adviser Key has published a nationwide study which found widespread support for...

Pure Retirement unveils YouTube channel

Pure Retirement has launched a customer-facing YouTube channel. It is designed to provide explainer video...

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...

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