Legal & General Home Finance has announced the launch of its new Later Life Mortgages Portal to cater for adviser needs and customer choice.
The portal, which has been designed with adviser feedback in mind, saves time on administration and offers new product features, including access to both fixed and variable Early Repayment Charges (ERCs) on LGHF’s Flexible Lifetime Mortgages (FLTM) and Optional Payment Lifetime Mortgages (OPLM).
Additional features include greater automation and improved product functionality, to help advisers take advantage of later life lending opportunities. The portal will allow advisers to produce key fact illustrations, as well as track each stage of the lifetime mortgage application online. Advisers will also benefit from access to Legal & General’s Retirement Interest Only Mortgage (RIO), a residential mortgage designed for those aged 55 and over, used to replace an existing interest-only mortgage or as a new interest-only mortgage.
Legal & General has established a phased roll-out and will be inviting advisers to sign up and gain access to these new features over the coming weeks.
Claire Singleton, CEO of Legal & General Home Finance, said: “As the lifetime mortgage market continues its lockdown recovery, operational efficiencies created by technology will play an increasingly important role in helping advisers achieve the best outcome for customers. To help advisers fully take advantage of opportunities in this market, we have created a portal that will make a real difference to the advice process, not only saving advisers time but offering more choice and greater flexibility, so they can better support customers.
She added: “We have also listened to advisers and introduced fixed ERCs to provide customers with greater choice but also the surety of how much they would pay in the unlikely event they need to repay the lifetime mortgage early. Our goal is to help advisers protect and support customers throughout their later years, and these enhancements provide another step forward in that journey.”
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