Welcome to our new Pure Insight section, offering a window into market trends to help you develop your business
Care Advice Guide for Advisers
An introductory guide for advisers and firms that don't give in-house care advice. The guide outlines what advisers need to know and how to put together a care advice referral proposition for your clients. ...
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We're FSQS Accredited: What Is It And What Does It Mean For You?
We are proud to announce that we have met all requirements in becoming fully registered within the Financial Supplier Qualification System (FSQS). ...
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Winter Wellness: Top Tips To Enhance Your Physical and Social Wellbeing
In the first of two blog posts, nutrition and wellbeing coach Dr Rebecca Lightfoot ...
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Equity Release And The Stamp Duty Holiday: What Could Its Imminent End Mean?
In recent months, the consistently rising housing prices, and housing wealth among existing homeowners, has never been far from the news ...
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Undue influence: Protecting customers’ interests during the equity release advice process
In the first of two pieces, we explored what undue influence is and what effect it can have on both customers ...
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Undue influence: How to identify undue influence in the equity release advice process
As an industry, we’ve a duty to ensure that customers’ best interests are both met and protected at all points ...
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Downsizing Protection: Finding The Right Solutions For Lifetime Mortgage Customers
Many major life events revolve around property, whether it’s buying your first property, purchasing the first family home, or potentially moving to a smaller property in later life in order to make life that little bit more manageable. ...
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Equity Release And Long Term Care: The Key Things Advisers Should Be Aware Of
As the pandemic begins to loosen its grip on the nation, interest in the housing market is gaining momentum, which also correlates with the rising availability of new build homes. ...
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Equity Release and New-Build Properties: How Best To Support Your Clients
As the pandemic begins to loosen its grip on the nation, interest in the housing market is gaining momentum, which also correlates with the rising availability of new build homes. ...
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Equity Release And Long Term Care: Two Industries Working For The Benefit Of Those In Later Life
Due to an ageing population, increasing life expectancy, and existing care systems across the UK that are under incredible pressure, the challenge faced by central government, local authorities and the general public in respect of paying for care is becoming increasingly evident. ...
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Equity Release In 2021: As The World Begins To Open Up, Is The Market Prepared?
As the world begins to open up and a gradual return to normality begins to look ever more realistic, it’s only natural to begin asking what the future looks like for the lifetime mortgage market. ...
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Property Management: Supporting Families at Difficult Times
At Pure Retirement we’re committed to providing great service both to advisers during the KFI-to-completion process. ...
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The changing uses of equity release: a lender’s perspective
It’s naturally been a year of considerable change within the sector owing to the pandemic, with several procedural adaptations needing to be made and wildly fluctuating market activity levels ...
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Asset rich, cash poor – could equity release be the answer for today’s retirees?
After the understandably muted figures to come out of the Equity Release Council which showed a considerable quarter-on-quarter drop in both customer numbers and lending totals from the start of 2020 ...
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Bricks and Mortar In The Time Of COVID: Has The Pandemic affected People’s Attitudes To Property in Retirement?
According to recent figures released by the ONS, 43% of people surveyed aged from 16 onwards saw property as the likely leading income source to help them make the most of retirement ...
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Beyond The Numbers: Do Market Figures Reflect Consumer Attitudes To Pandemic Borrowing?
On paper at least, the last quarter has been a bruising time for the equity release sector. While it’s weathered the storm of the ongoing pandemic well compared to countless other industries, ...
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How Has The Pandemic Changed The Face of Equity Release Customers?
In last month’s edition of Pure Insight we looked in detail at how the market had adapted to the changing conditions through the introduction of new processes and products. ...
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Equity release market impacted by crisis and societal changes
Customer trends and the current economic climate suggest more customers will release equity to pay-off debts and mortgages ...
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Equity release market growth led by changing customer attitudes and financial needs
Interest in equity release has increased over recent years, as customer attitudes to accessing property wealth have become more pragmatic. ...
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Evidence backs up equity release adviser predictions for 2020
Advisers are feeling optimistic for 2020 and data suggests that the equity release industry has many reasons to be cheerful. ...
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With equity release there is no one-size-fits-all product
The level of customer interest in equity release shows no sign of slowing down ...
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