Retirement borrowing

LiveMore ups max loan and allows more adverse

LiveMore has increased the maximum loan value across its core range of products from...

Legal & General Home Finance improves PTLM accessibility

Legal & General Home Finance has revised its Payment Term Lifetime Mortgage (PTLM) proposition...

Lending around retirement is changing

More than two-thirds of brokers say lending up to and into retirement in the...

Growing acceptance of borrowing into older age

61% of homeowners in the UK - equivalent to 18.7 million people – are...

Later life lending customer needs “have forever changed”

Last week, later life lending platform, Air, hosted its Comprehensive Conversations Roundtable. The roundtable featured...

LiveMore creates new propositions team

LiveMore is expanding its operations with a new propositions team. Samantha Ward, who has consulted...

Perenna launches flexible RIO mortgage

Perenna has added a flexible, long-term fixed rate retirement interest only (RIO) mortgage to...

LiveMore appoints new director of intermediary sales

LiveMore has appointed Les Pick to the position of director of intermediary sales. Pick...

Flexible approach key to opening up retirement mortgages

There can be no doubt that demand for later life lending is strong at...

Hodge sees sharp rise in over-50s taking mortgages for debt consolidation

New data from specialist lender Hodge shows a significant increase in the number of...

LiveMore establishes social bond framework

LiveMore Capital has set up a social bond framework as part of its Environmental,...

LiveMore unveils rebrand

LiveMore has rebranded with messaging to highlight its new broader product range. Now offering capital...

LiveMore reinstates fee assisted mortgages and lowers RIO age

Specialist lender LiveMore is bringing back fee assisted mortgage products, which includes a free...

Money more important than health and family to over-50s

Having enough money is more important to the majority of the UK’s over-50s than...

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A walk on the supply side

The UK government’s stated goal to build 1.5 million homes during the current parliamentary term underlines a strong political focus on addressing the housing...

Don’t build in fear – quality must come before quotas

“This is my message to housebuilders: get on with it. If you promise homes, you have to build them.” - Prime Minister Keir Starmer, 25...

AI won’t replace mortgage brokers – but those who don’t adapt could be left behind, say industry leaders

Artificial intelligence is set to transform the mortgage industry but it won’t replace the role of the broker, according to a panel of sector...

Why the mortgage industry must digitise for the customer, not just for compliance

Home buyers today can manage their finances, verify their ID and even order a sofa for next-day delivery all from their phones. Yet when...

The BBC’s exposé isn’t news to mortgage advisers – but it might be to the public

Let’s be honest, for mortgage advisers, the recent Panorama investigation into conditional selling by estate agents wasn’t so much a revelation as it was...

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Foundation Home Loans enters 85% LTV BTL market with fee-free product

Foundation Home Loans has launched a new five-year fixed buy-to-let mortgage at 85% loan-to-value...

Majority of landlords have raised rents amid sustained demand

Nearly 60% of UK landlords have increased rents over the past year, with more...

Arc & Co. arranges £3.56m loan on Kent apartments leased to council

Specialist debt advisory firm Arc & Co. has arranged a £3,562,500 buy-to-let loan secured...

InterBay introduces joint legal representation in bid to accelerate completions

InterBay, the specialist commercial lender within OSB Group, has introduced joint legal representation as...