Retirement borrowing

LiveMore unveils hybrid Part & Part mortgage

LiveMore has expanded its range of later life lending products with the launch of...

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...

Redefining ‘later life lending’ for a fairer financial future

The phrase ‘later life lending’ is becoming increasingly common in financial services but what...

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)...

Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank align lending into retirement policies

Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank have been working to align their policies for lending...

Loughborough BS adds ‘savings boost’ to later life lending offering

Loughborough Building Society has made a criteria change to its lending in retirement proposition...

LiveMore lowers minimum equity on over-50s’ mortgages

LiveMore has lowered the amount of equity required for its standard interest-only mortgages by...

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...

Hodge rebrands 50+ mortgages and scraps minimum age

Hodge is rebranding its 50+ mortgage products to Resi Retire. It is also removing the...

Loughborough BS increases income assessment for retirement lending

Loughborough Building Society has improved its lending in retirement proposition by moving to assess...

Major rise in 10-15yr mortgage searches from over-50s

Legal & General has revealed that broker search data from its Ignite platform shows...

Hodge improves 50+ and RIO criteria

Hodge has made changes to the criteria on its 50+ and Retirement Interest Only...

Hodge cuts 50+ and RIO rates

Hodge has reduced rates across a selection of its 50+ and Retirement Interest Only...

SimplyBiz Mortgages partners with Marsden BS

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

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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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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