RIO mortgages

Air Group and Knowledge Bank to hold Criteria Clinics

Air Group is offering a series of new ‘Criteria Clinics’ in conjunction with criteria...

H2 2020 recovery for equity release market

The Equity Release Council has reported that the total value of UK private property...

LiveMore widens LTV bands and cuts rates

Retirement Interest Only (RIO) mortgage provider, LiveMore Capital, has announced a reduction of its standard...

Hodge ups later life maximum LTV

Hodge has increased the maximum LTV from 70% to 75% across its 50+ and...

LiveMore Capital expands network distribution

LiveMore Capital has announced a new panel position with Tenet Network Services. The firm is gradually...

Nationwide introduces swathe of mortgage rate cuts

The Nationwide Building Society is cutting rates across various products in its mortgage range. Selected...

LiveMore Capital appoints sales account manager

LiveMore has announced the appointment of Margarita Genovesa as sales account manager. She will support...

LiveMore Capital now on Criteria Hub

Later life provider  LiveMore Capital has become the latest lender to join Criteria Hub. There...

LiveMore Capital joins LMS Panel Link

Conveyancer and panel management specialist, LMS, has expanded its partnership with Livemore Capital. The later...

RIO mortgages an “outright failure”, says later life provider

Retirement Interest Only Mortgages (RIOs) account for just one in 740 mortgages, according to...

Paradigm appoints over-55s provider to panel

Paradigm Mortgage Service has added retirement interest only (RIO) mortgage lender, LiveMore Capital, to...

Legal & General Mortgage Club adds LiveMore Capital to panel

Later life lending provider LiveMore Capital has joined the panel of Legal & General...

LiveMore moves into house purchase market

LiveMore Capital has extended Retirement Interest Only (RIO) product range to include purchase mortgage...

LMS teams up with RIO mortgage provider

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

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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