RIO mortgages

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...

Hodge sees major rise in RIO applications

Hodge has reported a 36% increase in the number of RIO mortgage applications in...

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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