Equity release mortgages revisited

Equity release mortgages revisited

The equity release mortgage is becoming increasingly popular. It’s also playing a significant role in helping older people pay off debts and mortgages, with figures suggesting that equity release is seeing £10m ‘withdrawn’ from homes each day. Those reading this who...
Getting a mortgage if you’re divorced

Getting a mortgage if you’re divorced

Interestingly, there appears to a ‘content gap’ when it comes to advice on applying for a mortgage if you’re divorced. Strange, considering how research from the Office for National Statistics revealed how there were 90,871 divorces in 2018. Reassuringly, this was...
Reasons to use a mortgage broker

Reasons to use a mortgage broker

Is technology about to make the mortgage broker redundant? Will robots and AI replace the traditional role of your local mortgage adviser? The answer is ‘yes’, according to news reports from the start of the year, which claim how mortgage applications may be as simple...
How to get a cheap mortgage

How to get a cheap mortgage

This isn’t a cheat. Nor does it involve any sneakiness or withholding of information on your part when it comes to applying for a mortgage. And yes, it’s legal! In fact, it’s so above board that you may even kick yourself and wonder why you haven’t done anything about...