RIO mortgages

LiveMore Capital partners with Specialist Mortgage Group

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

LiveMore expands sales and broker support

Later life lender, LiveMore, has made two new senior appointments, expanding its sales and...

LiveMore moves into Scottish market

LiveMore, the specialist over-50s mortgage lender, is to offer its interest-only products in Scotland. The...

LiveMore secures £275m funding line

LiveMore Capital has agreed a £275m senior funding line with NatWest Markets. The financing will...

Trade bodies launch later life lending factsheet

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI), Building Societies Association (BSA), Equity Release Council (ERC),...

Strategies to grow the later life lending market

Last month’s Budget announcement might have seemed like something of a ‘damp squib’ in...

Rise in over-50s ‘doer-uppers’

Hodge has witnessed a 10% rise in the number of customers who are using...

LiveMore Capital bolsters leadership team

LiveMore Capital has announced the appointment of Simon Webb as managing director of capital...

Hodge reduces holiday let, 50+ and RIO rates

Hodge has cut its rates on holiday let mortgages by 0.10 percentage points at...

Hodge cuts RIO and 50+ mortgage rates

Hodge has reduced rates on its Retirement Interest Only (RIO) and 50+ mortgage products. Its...

Later life lending market needs a re-brand

Air Mortgage Club has revealed the results of its first ‘Later Life Lending Census’...

LiveMore Capital partners with specialist broker group

LiveMore Capital has launched with specialist broker group, Blueberry Specialist Lending. Alison Pallett (pictured), LiveMore’s director...

Advise Wise unveils product comparison feature

Advise Wise has launched a product comparison feature on its later life platform. The feature...

The Nottingham reduces RIO rates and improves LTVs

The Nottingham has made rate cuts to its three retirement interest-only (RIO) products. It has...

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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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Paragon launches tailored buy-to-let service for complex cases

Paragon Bank has launched a Tailored service to support buy-to-let mortgage applications that fall...

Castle Trust Bank adds AVMs to buy-to-let applications

Castle Trust Bank has introduced automated valuation models on eligible buy-to-let cases as part...

HSBC UK cuts mortgage rates by up to 11bps

HSBC UK has reduced rates across its mortgage range, with cuts of up to...

Ampla Finance unveils Untangled rebrand as it broadens specialist lending ambitions

Specialist lender Ampla Finance has launched a new brand identity, Untangled, as it looks...

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