Nominations for the 2019 'What Mortgage Awards' are open
It almost seems like yesterday, but it’s a whole year since the process of voting in the 2018 What Mortgage Awards started. Last year, Equity Release Supermarket were winners in the ‘Best Broker Website’ category and highly commended in the ‘Best Equity Release Adviser’ category.
Revealed – How the Bank of Mum & Dad use Equity Release to Fund 1st Time Buyers
It has recently come to my attention, having watched my own daughter attempt to buy her 1st property, how difficult it has become for 1st time buyers to fulfi...
Switch Equity Release from Papilio UK – Time is running out
In my last article on this subject in February 2013 I drew attention to the ease with which borrowers could escape the higher equity release interest rates cha...
Equity Release Is For Life, Not Just For Christmas
I recently read an advertisement in a National newspaper extolling the virtues of Equity Release and was surprisingly written on behalf of one of the main equit...
Equity Release, Divorce and a Solution for ‘Silver Splitters’
A new and rather unusual expression has recently emerged which is the term – ‘silver splitters’. It hasn’t made the Oxford Concise Dictionary yet, but I suspec...
The Many (Sometimes Unusual) Reasons to Release Equity from Your Home
During my 10 years as a Lifetime Mortgage specialist I have come across a plethora of reasons to make genuine use of equity release schemes. There are the most...
Hodge Lifetime Launch New Innovative Retirement Mortgage Plan
Equity Release Supermarket can today announce the launch of the new Hodge Lifetime Retirement Mortgage Plan. Only available through a selected number of inte...
Equity Release Schemes Available In Scotland
It’s been a long time coming, as the song goes but Scotland is at last catching up with the rest of the UK when it comes to the uptake of equity release schemes...
Equity release schemes have risen in the popularity stakes over the past 12 months. With regular articles in the tabloids, and increasing government awareness,...