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February 11, 2025
Access FS joins Equity Release Council
Access Financial Services, a leading mortgage and protection brokerage, has joined the Equity Release Council (the Council). Access FS mortgage…
January 30, 2025
Council publishes Q4 & FY 2024 lending figures
Equity release market ends 2024 on the up! More than 15,000 customers active in one quarter for the first time…
December 17, 2024
Unmet later life lending demand evident as equity release market signals recovery
Equity Release Council publishes Winter 2024 Market Report, 'From niche to normal and beyond: charting the evolution of a socially vital market.' Mortgage sales to…
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December 17, 2019
Equity Release Summit set to be flagship engagement event for 2020
Registration is open for next year’s inaugural Equity Release Summit…
November 6, 2019
New Council Standards provide higher level of consumer protection than any other form of property-based loan
The Council’s Standards set best practice benchmark by providing a…
October 28, 2019
Equity release market rises 8% in Q3 as older homeowners unlock nearly £11m of property wealth per day
Equity release products provide £988m of funding to over-55 homeowners…
October 24, 2019
Over 65s will make up half of single person households by 2022
Number of over-65s living alone has increased by 15% in…
September 23, 2019
Autumn market report 2019: product trends revealed as sector flexes with consumer demand
Equity release customers see unprecedented levels of product choice and…
July 31, 2019
Two speed Equity Release market emerges in Q2
Sales of new drawdown lifetime mortgages grew between April and…
July 25, 2019
Knight Frank Finance joins the Equity Release Council
The Equity Release Council has signed up its first major…
July 4, 2019
Council responds to Lords report on social care ‘crisis’
The Economic Affairs Committee publishes its report Social care funding:…
July 1, 2019
THE EQUITY RELEASE COUNCIL SIGNS ITS 1000TH MEMBER
THE EQUITY RELEASE COUNCIL SIGNS ITS 1,000TH MEMBER Sarah Barlow…