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Peter Sharkey
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 opportunity presented itself? Should I have moved house? Should I have asked that girl to dance?
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...
Equity Release for Holiday Homes, Can You Buy a Houseboat or Motorhome?
More than twenty years ago, a very good friend landed a main board role at one of the nation’s largest and best-known companies. The position was London-based (...
Using Property Wealth to Help the Next Generation Onto the Ladder
Few Britons who took their first, tentative, steps en route to securing a home of their own towards the end of last century could have imagined the extent to wh...
How drawdown schemes can provide additional tax free income
Calculating how much money will be needed to last through what we all hope will be a peaceful and lengthy retirement can be a daunting, time-consuming task....