Retirement borrowing

Advisers could help vulnerable old people

Later life advisers can be the 'trusted person' who is able to put lonely...

Legal & General Home Finance appoints head of mortgage broker sales

Legal & General Home Finance has announced the appointment of Marie Catch as head...

The Tipton & Cosley offering retirement interest-only mortgages

The Tipton & Cosley Building Society is claiming to be the first society to...

Later Life Academy secures NSAFS accreditation

The Later Life Academy (LLA) has revealed that its development programme for later life...

TML partners with Legal & General Mortgage Club

The Mortgage Lender and Legal & General Mortgage Club are joining forces to distribute...

The Ipswich launches later life mortgage range

The Ipswich Building Society has unveiled a mortgage range for those borrowing into later...

Retirement lending market set to surpass £142bn by 2027

Over 65s will have amassed a record £86bn of debt in 2018, up from...

FSE: more later life lending advisers will be needed

The later life lending sector has sufficient advisers to cope with demand at present...

KR Group extends FSE backing

Key Retirement Group (KR Group) is supporting advisers aiming to develop their businesses in...

Key Retirement takes stake in AIR Group

Key Retirement Group (KR Group) has acquired a stake in Answers in Retirement Group...

Last time buyers’ housing wealth to pass £1 trillion during 2018

Last Time Buyers now own £938bn of UK housing stock and will reach the £1...

National Later Life Conference lineup revealed

Answers in Retirement has published the speaker line-up for June's inaugural National Later Life Conference. The event...

Paradigm Mortgage Services to hold later life events in June

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced a series of later life lending events for advisers which...

Lawyers seeing increase in demand for later life planning

Key Partnerships' research has found that lawyers are increasingly seeing a switch to demand...

COMMENT

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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Halifax retains top spot in broker satisfaction survey

Halifax has once again been named the best overall lender for broker experience in...

Nationwide cuts switcher mortgage rates for existing borrowers

Nationwide is reducing rates across its switcher mortgage range for existing customers by up...

Hinckley & Rugby adds visa mortgage products to offering

Hinckley & Rugby for intermediaries has launched four two-year discount visa mortgage products across...

NatWest strengthens broker support with intermediary team expansion

NatWest has expanded its intermediary leadership team with the creation of two new corporate...

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