Using Equity Release to Support Adult Children: What to Consider
What’s more important: your adult child’s welfare or a new kitchen? Or a house extension? Or that three-month cruise you’ve been promising yourself for years? No need to answer just yet...
State Pension Triple Lock: Could Equity Release Help Bridge a Retirement Income Gap?
Ask most people to give their interpretation of ‘welfare spending’ and they would probably reel off a long list of constantly rising financial commitments accum...
Can Equity Release Help Fund a Loft Conversion or Extension?
Private, domestic property is an asset held in high esteem by most baby boomers, not least because many recognise the good fortune which has accrued from their...
From House Price Growth to Retirement Income: Understanding Equity Release
“If only we’d known,” is an oft-repeated lament, usually uttered once opportunity appears to have long passed us by. ‘Should I have taken that job when the opp...
Can Equity Release Help You Achieve a Comfortable Retirement?
Many moons ago, I was a fresh-faced university student enjoying the time of my life in my newly-adopted city of Bristol. What a handsome place to live. Three ye...
Using Equity Release to Help Pay University Fees and Student Costs
With exams finally over and revision, for the time being at least, sidelined, most A-level students will, or should be, chilling out and preparing to enjoy long...
Gazundering in the UK Property Market: How Sellers Can Protect Themselves
Property transactions are notorious for triggering long periods of concern and anxiety, in both buyers and sellers. Transactional progress requires each party t...
Could Equity Release Help If the State Pension Triple Lock Changes?
Imagine, for a minute, that you’re an MP, one completely au fait with using a variety of on- and offline platforms, through which you can express opinions on an...
Can Equity Release Help Pay for Private Medical Treatment and Care Costs?
You could make a very good case for describing the small town of Tredegar, in south west Wales, as the birthplace of Britain’s National Health Service. Situated...
The Hidden Price Rises Eating Into Your Retirement Income
Couple of days into a recent holiday in the USA, my wife and I drove inland to the small-ish town of Clermont, located in Florida’s Lake County region. Approach...