RIO mortgages

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...

Advise Wise adds RIO mortgages to sourcing

Advise Wise has introduced Retirement Interest Only (RIO) mortgages and holiday let plans to...

David Finlay joins LiveMore Capital

David Finlay has joined LiveMore Capital as an executive consultant and member of the...

LiveMore rejoins mortgage market

LiveMore Capital has returned to the mortgage sector, having temporarily suspended its products due...

Consistency remains in mortgage searches

Mortgage criteria searches remained consistent from August to September, according to results from Legal...

Change in reasons for taking out a RIO

New data from specialist lender Hodge has revealed the reasons its customers take out...

LiveMore joins Sesame and PMS lender panels

LiveMore has been appointed by Sesame Bankhall Group to its 100-strong lender panel. The move...

LiveMore expands BDM team

LiveMore is growing its sales and broker support to meet the demand for interest-only...

Hodge restarts residential mortgage lending

Hodge has re-entered the residential mortgage market for its 50+, RIO and holiday let...

Rest Less Mortgages launches to 50+ market

Rest Less, a digital membership community for people in their 50s and beyond, has...

Co-op Insurance to offer later life options via L&G

Co-op Insurance has partnered with Legal & General to offer later life mortgage options...

LiveMore creates four-tier structure to product range

LiveMore Capital has revised its entire product range for borrowers aged 50 to 90+. Instead...

LiveMore Capital partners with Specialist Mortgage Group

LiveMore Capital has partnered with brokerage Specialist Mortgage Group (SMG). The new partnership allows SMG’s...

COMMENT

The industry needs to prepare now for Your First Home

The government’s announcement of the Your First Home scheme is genuinely positive news, and anything that boosts confidence among first-time buyers and people trying...

Why advisers can be part of the conveyancing team

There is a tendency to think the mortgage adviser’s involvement in conveyancing begins with recommending a firm and then largely ends once the client...

Why the AI revolution could be a golden age for financial advice

Every major technological shift creates the same debate: will it empower professionals to do more, or eventually replace them? Artificial intelligence is simply the latest...

Should mortgage advisers consider the emerging secondary market for life policies?

Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...

One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

Latest news

First-time buyer affordability remains strained despite narrowing house price gap

Only 12.1% of potential first-time buyers can afford the average starter home in their...

Royal London targets GP report delays with digital service

Royal London is expanding its use of digital medical evidence in an effort to...

Equifinance names Jackie Burchill as lending operations director

Equifinance has appointed Jackie Burchill as director of lending operations as the second charge...

House price-to-income ratio falls to 11-year low as mortgage costs rise

The gap between UK house prices and earnings has narrowed to its lowest level...

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