Topic: Later Life

First-time Buyer

Number of over-50s buying their first home up 47% since 2020

Mortgage Rates

Mortgage rate rises could cost homeowners £268,000 in future retirement savings

Inheritance Tax

New programme launches to prepare advisers for landmark IHT and pension rule changes

FCA

Advisers often don’t consider the full consumer journey, FCA warns

Later Life

Half of UK households could benefit from accessing housing wealth as pension shortfalls loom

LiveMore

LiveMore expands acceptance criteria with shorter arrears policy

Salary Sacrifice

Nearly 3 million workers to cut back on pension saving following salary sacrifice changes

Later Life

Later life leaders call for ‘entrenched advice silos’ to be broken down

Later Life

Stable lending values offset a decline in later life loan volumes

LiveMore

LiveMore launches underwriting hotline to tackle complex cases

Mortgages

Just 52% of Baby Boomers expect to be mortgage free by retirement

Later Life

New specialist later life lending network launches to advisers

Later Life

Over-60s property wealth three times more than DC pension market value

Air

Air and Simplybiz launch later life lending training programme

Hinckley & Rugby

Hinckley & Rugby increases lending into retirement LTV to 80%