Retirement borrowing

SimplyBiz Mortgages partners with Marsden BS

Marden Building Society has launched an exclusive range of mortgages, available only to SimplyBiz...

Loughborough BS launches affordability calculators for brokers

Loughborough Building Society has introduced a series of intermediary-focused affordability calculators. The Society has teamed...

Cost of renting in retirement is £390k

Those people who think they will rent throughout their retirement could need an additional...

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,...

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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...

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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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