Will Higher Property Taxes and Stamp Duty Push More Homeowners Toward Equity Release?
There’s a certain amount of satisfaction, though the feeling is infused with a large slice of annoyance, in predicting a potentially significant change in government policy well in advance of the news reaching the front pages. Within weeks of publication, a Minister or junior Whitehall official tentatively outline future plans which mirror precisely the original forecast and soon taxpayers are on...
Future-Proofing Your Finances: Why UK Savers Can't Rely on the State Pension Alone
Midway through our first visit to Copenhagen, my wife and I were getting ready to leave the remarkably accessible Christiansborg Palace, seat of the Danish parl...
Could Equity Release Be the Answer to Rising Taxes and Pension Shortfalls?
The lengthening list of government travails have become depressingly familiar of late as our political leaders wrestle with one hugely important economic fact:...
Planning Your Retirement? Avoid These Common Mistakes
Most of us sporting a little more than a hint of grey hair tend to consider ourselves reasonably sensible people – the greying hair is a clear indication of our...
Can Equity Release Help Pay for a Wedding? Here’s How It Works
We travelled to Bristol the day before, taking our time, stopping for lunch and generally feeling pleased with ourselves for having the good sense to enjoy a re...
Don’t Downsize Your Retirement Plans: Discover the Power of Equity Release
The lengthy list of ambitions people begin itemising during their fresh-faced salad days are, by their very nature, almost always superseded by the time those s...
Worried About Retirement Income? How Over-50s Are Boosting Their Finances with Equity Release
Every now and then you read an online or newspaper article and think, ‘this applies to me’. It can be a weird sensation, as though the article’s author had delv...
How Inheritance Tax Changes Could Impact Your Pension—and Why Over-55s Are Turning to Equity Release
Discussions regarding Inheritance Tax (IHT) were once the sole preserve of ‘high net worth individuals’, namely those with significant capital or income living...
Can Equity Release Help You Avoid Downsizing? What Retirees Need to Know
A friend of mine, a former schoolteacher, retired almost a decade ago, since when he has traced his family tree back to the mid-fifteenth century. He regularly...
Could Equity Release Fund Your Next Big Adventure?
The extended spell of fine, summer-like weather has resulted in many of us forgetting that we’ve only recently reached spring, a particularly compelling period...