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Retirement borrowing
LiveMore unveils hybrid Part & Part mortgage
LiveMore has expanded its range of later life lending products with the launch of...
15 May 2025
Unlocking housing wealth in retirement ‘could add £21bn to UK economy by 2040’
More than half of UK households are expected to rely on property wealth to...
12 May 2025
Redefining ‘later life lending’ for a fairer financial future
The phrase ‘later life lending’ is becoming increasingly common in financial services but what...
24 April 2025
LiveMore makes rate reductions and criteria enhancements across full later life lending ranges
LiveMore has made pricing and criteria changes across its Standard, Retirement Interest Only (RIO)...
8 April 2025
Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank align lending into retirement policies
Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank have been working to align their policies for lending...
21 January 2025
Loughborough BS adds ‘savings boost’ to later life lending offering
Loughborough Building Society has made a criteria change to its lending in retirement proposition...
12 December 2024
LiveMore lowers minimum equity on over-50s’ mortgages
LiveMore has lowered the amount of equity required for its standard interest-only mortgages by...
11 November 2024
Older borrowers won’t all be served by a mainstream-only approach
When it comes to the mortgage borrowing public in the UK, the numbers tend...
20 October 2024
Hodge rebrands 50+ mortgages and scraps minimum age
Hodge is rebranding its 50+ mortgage products to Resi Retire. It is also removing the...
16 October 2024
Loughborough BS increases income assessment for retirement lending
Loughborough Building Society has improved its lending in retirement proposition by moving to assess...
10 September 2024
Major rise in 10-15yr mortgage searches from over-50s
Legal & General has revealed that broker search data from its Ignite platform shows...
31 July 2024
Hodge improves 50+ and RIO criteria
Hodge has made changes to the criteria on its 50+ and Retirement Interest Only...
18 July 2024
Hodge cuts 50+ and RIO rates
Hodge has reduced rates across a selection of its 50+ and Retirement Interest Only...
11 July 2024
SimplyBiz Mortgages partners with Marsden BS
Marden Building Society has launched an exclusive range of mortgages, available only to SimplyBiz...
10 July 2024
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COMMENT
Cover
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...
9 June 2026
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,...
8 June 2026
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...
3 June 2026
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...
1 June 2026
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,...
29 May 2026
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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...
10 June 2026
Blogs
Nationwide cuts switcher mortgage rates for existing borrowers
Nationwide is reducing rates across its switcher mortgage range for existing customers by up...
9 June 2026
News
Hinckley & Rugby adds visa mortgage products to offering
Hinckley & Rugby for intermediaries has launched four two-year discount visa mortgage products across...
9 June 2026
Appointments
NatWest strengthens broker support with intermediary team expansion
NatWest has expanded its intermediary leadership team with the creation of two new corporate...
9 June 2026
PROFILES
Steve Caruthers on understanding how lenders operate
Kevin Tunnicliffe on ending the race to the bottom
Profile: Andrew Lloyd, CEO of Fignum