Legal & General | Flexible Blue Voluntary Repayment Plan

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Flexible Blue

Type Fixed
Rate 3.83%
APR 4.00%

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Incentives:

Cashback
Free Valuation
Free Application

Offers:

10%pa Voluntary Repayment Allowance
Inheritance Protection
3-year No Early Repayment Charge*
Downsizing Protection Feature

Background

Legal and General Home Finance entered the equity release marketplace in early 2015 by acquiring existing lifetime mortgage company New Life Mortgages. This enabled them a quicker route to market with immediate permissions, whilst at the same time obtaining PRA & FCA regulatory approval.

Legal & General provide equity release schemes offering a range of flexible drawdown lifetime mortgage plans and higher maximum lump sum plans, all with the control-ability measure of the 10% partial repayment function. They have more equity release plans in store with ambitious targets to grow the market significantly over the forthcoming years, which all bodes well for an already expanding post retirement lending market.

Eligibility

The Legal & General Flexible Blue Voluntary Repayment Lifetime Mortgage is specifically designed for those looking for one of the maximum equity release lump sums available. The plan is simplistic in design as the Flexible Blue plan offers an initial single tax-free release of equity. If the maximum release isn't taken, then any unused allowance is saved in a cash reserve facility for future use, if required.

The Flexi Blue plan differs from the Flexible Indigo in that the size of the Blue's maximum loan it can produce is lower. However, one advantage of the L&G Flexible Blue voluntary payment plan is that it provides a lower interest rate at the expense of loan size offered by the Flexible Indigo scheme.

The minimum property valuation applicable to this Optional Payment Blue Mortgage is £70,000, with a figure of £100,000 for ex-council properties. A maximum valuation outside London is £2m, with properties in London being acceptable upto £4m. Please. Contact us on 0800 802 1051 if valuation is higher.

The location of the property which must be a main residence, needs to be situated in England, Wales or mainland Scotland. For flats & maisonettes - Legal and General will only base their calculations on 85% of the current market valuation. Additionally, should the property be leasehold then the minimum number of years remaining must be at least 175 years.

The L&G Flexible Blue Voluntary Payment Lifetime Mortgage is available on both a single and joint life basis. The minimum age of the youngest homeowner starts from age 55, with a typical maximum age of 90. In certain circumstances an age of 90+ can be acceptable - if so, please contact the team on Freephone 0800 802 1051.

The minimum loan size for this plan is £10,000, with a maximum release available of £750,000. For loans greater than £750,000, bespoke quotations are available via Equity Release Supermarket. Please call Freephone 0800 802 1051 for a personalised Key Facts Illustration.

Features

Legal and General's Flexible Blue Plan is a voluntary repayment lifetime mortgage scheme. This allows the homeowner to make partial repayments back to Legal & General with the main advantage being that NO proof of income is needed. Therefore, for those having difficulty obtaining residential mortgages, voluntary repayment schemes offer a non-verification mortgage alternative.

The Legal & General Voluntary Repayment Blue plan starts as a single release equity lifetime mortgage scheme, but with the option of a drawdown facility should the maximum not be taken from day 1. This voluntary payment product provides a higher tax-free lump sum cash release for immediate use. This is ideal for those looking for access a higher single release of equity, but also with the options of either taking more via drawdown in the future, or making repayments by using the 10%pa payment facility.

This Flexible Blue plan offers one of the highest maximum equity release amounts of all Legal and General's lifetime mortgage product range. Their loan-to-value percentage on this scheme starts from 21.2% at age 55, rising to 50.5% from age 85 and upwards. Therefore, if you are in good health, looking for a higher maximum loan amount with flexibility of making optional partial repayments with no income verification, then the L&G Flexible Blue equity release plan ranks very competitively.

A generous free unlimited valuation is offered along with a fixed equity release lifetime interest rate on the tax-free lump sum.

Legal & General include a Downsizing Protection feature on all its plans.

The L&G version of Downsizing Protection means that anyone moving home after 5 years from the plan start date, can repay the loan with no early repayment charge, as long as the property they are moving into does not meet L&G’s lending criteria.

As Legal & General Home Finance are members of the Equity Release Council all their plans come with a no negative equity guarantee. Therefore, upon eventual sale of the property, any beneficiaries cannot be left with a debt to the equity release company.

For joint applicants there is an added protection feature for the last survivor of the plan. Should one homeowner die or move into care, the surviving partner has the option to be able to repay this lifetime mortgage within 3 years of this event with NO penalty.

Options

This Legal and General Flexible Blue Voluntary Repayment Mortgage enables any homeowner to spend their tax-free cash as they wish, with no need in having to make any repayments. However, one feature of the L&G Blue plan is the Partial Repayment Option which allows the planholder to start making upto 10% repayments of the original amount borrowed each year with NO penalty or income verification. This helps manage control the future balance of this lifetime mortgage UK scheme, either to reduce the roll-up effect of the interest, pay off the interest only, or even repay the future balance over 15-16 years by using the full 10% allowance.

A further option for inclusion is the Inheritance Protection feature so the homeowner can secure a fixed percentage of the final sale value of the property. This is important for those who wish to guarantee a percentage of the house value from their inheritance.

A final option with the Flexible Blue Lifetime Mortgage Plan is the opportunity to take a 2% cashback based on the amount taken. This does have the effect of increasing the equity release interest rate by 0.2%.

*The 3-year no early repayment charge applies to joint life plans where the loan is repaid within 3 years of death or long term care of a partner
**Rate shown includes the standard L&G application fee and no cashback

To obtain further information or to request a quotation on the Legal and General Flexible Blue Lifetime Mortgage, please contact the Equity Release Supermarket team on Freephone 0800 802 1051 today.

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