RIO mortgages

LMS teams up with RIO mortgage provider

Conveyancing solutions provider, LMS, has partnered with LiveMore Capital to facilitate legal services for...

LiveMore Capital launches with Air Mortgage Club

Air Mortgage Club has announced the addition of specialist mortgage lender, LiveMore Capital, to...

LiveMore Capital joins TMA later life panel

TMA Club has announced the addition of Retirement Interest-Only (RIO) mortgages provider LiveMore Capital to its lifetime...

MCI Club expands later life lending panel

MCI Mortgage Club has added LiveMore Captial to its panel, extending its range of...

Over three-quarters of retirees “frozen out of mortgage market”

Over 80% of retired homeowners can’t access a mortgage of any kind that meets...

Hodge cuts all 60% LTV RIO mortgage rates

Retirement lender Hodge has reduced its rates on a selection of its later life mortgages...

Hodge pleased with CPD-accredited webinar take-up

Hodge has revealed that over 100 intermediaries attended each of the six CPD-accredited webinars held...

BestAdvice holds later life lending roundtable

BestAdvice recently held a virtual roundtable, following the publication of its Later Life Lending...

Hodge reverts to 70% LTV later life lending

Hodge is making some "positive" changes to its lending criteria and is resuming lending...

Later life report: advisers want changes to RIO rules

A new survey paints a picture of low levels of Retirement Interest-Only (RIO) mortgage...

Later life lending: rate still king for advisers

Rate is the most important factor cited by advisers when recommending a later life...

Report: advisers expect to expand later life advice

44% of mortgage advisers are active in the later life market, with equity release...

Knowledge Bank partners with Hodge

Knowledge Bank has joined forces with specialist lender Hodge, to provide brokers with criteria...

Equity Release Supermarket expands free calculator functionality

Equity Release Supermarket (ERS) has expansion its customer-focussed online tools. ERS were the first broker...

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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