Retirement borrowing

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,...

LiveMore unveils rebrand

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

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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