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Legal & General Home Finance offers a Payment Term Lifetime Mortgage (PTLM) designed for homeowners aged 50 and over. This later life mortgage solution helps individuals access their home equity while managing interest payments in a structured way. Although a PTLM is a lifetime mortgage, there are differences which we will discuss throughout this article.
Accessing Your Home's Potential: Bridging Finance and Equity Release for Over 55s
For homeowners aged 55 and above, navigating the property market can present unique challenges and opportunities. There are many financial options and decisions...
Navigating Your Mortgage Transition: A Guide for Over 50s Facing Rising Mortgage Payments
According to the FCA over 1.5 million mortgages will come to the end of their fixed rate deal in 2024. The Bank of England (BoE) have recently held rates at 5.2...
How Much Does It Cost To Make Your Home More Accessible in Retirement?
Getting older and moving into retirement can be a very exciting time of your life; an opportunity to truly relax and spend more time with loved ones.However, in...
How Equity Release and Inheritance tax Can Work in Tandem
So many people take pleasure from gifting or supporting family members whenever they can, and most would love to help their family with bigger ticket items such...
How equity release can help both sides with a divorce settlement
Unfortunately, divorce can happen at any time and at any age, and whilst divorce in general is on the decline, figures from the UKs Office for National Statisti...
How to Reduce your 'Effective' Interest Rate by Making Flexible Voluntary Payments
Did you know you can make optional, partial, voluntary payments to your equity release lender? Although equity release gives you the option of making no repayme...
The equity release industry is continually striving to develop new ways of helping homeowners age 55+ to release equity from their property. Equity Release Supe...
Managing the Base Rate Increase: Exploring the Benefits of Equity Release
As of Thursday 22nd June 2023, the Bank of England implemented another interest rate hike, bringing it to 5% from 4.5%. This significant increase marks the 13t...
How To Check If You’re Eligible For Equity Release
Equity release is an appealing option for many people wishing to support their later life goals or fund their standard of living in retirement. However, we ofte...