How Equity Release Could Support Aspiring Homeowners in a Buyer's Market
Sat in a departure lounge at Sydney airport after experiencing five glorious weeks Down Under a few years ago, my wife and I mulled over what would / could have happened had we visited 25-30 years earlier. “I could live in Adelaide, the City of Churches,” mused Clare. “Cultured, sophisticated-yet-casual and ringed by parkland. My kind of town,” she added.
The Future of State Pensions in the UK: Will Equity Release Play A Key Role?
The number of seemingly popular, pre-election policies subsequently implemented once a political party ascends to power can usually be numbered on the fingers o...
Asset Rich And Cash Poor? You’re Not Alone.
A flurry of recent reports have found that around one fifth of UK adults aged 55 and over, approximately 4.2 million people, have less than £1,000 in savings. E...
Balancing the Books: Pension Triple Lock and Equity Release for a Comfortable Retirement
Towards the end of 2019, a few months before the pandemic arrived and turned our lives upside down, I shared a beer with a good friend, a guy I’ve known for mor...
Can you combat rising costs and support your family with equity release?
Though buried in the busiest holiday month of the year, mid-August is nonetheless a significant period for hundreds of thousands of adults. On 16th August, the...
Interest Rate Increase to 5.25% - Supporting Loved Ones With A Low Deposit
Mothers in particular know instinctively when their offspring need a hand, though fathers too tend to have a (slightly more delayed) inkling when their assistan...
Interest Rates; Are they too high, too low or about right?
For more than 35 years, the impending arrival of a new football season has resulted in around 25 of us, all long-standing friends, submitting a variety of well-...
A Flexible Option to Complete Your Retirement Bucket List
The prospect of visiting Australia always held enormous appeal. Perhaps because it’s so far away, or maybe because the weather always looks so fabulously good,...
Fact or Fiction: Revealing the Truth Behind Equity Release
Spend time in almost any company, large or small, and it soon becomes apparent that perhaps the greatest threat feared by the organisation’s owners and manageme...
Nationwide House Price Index: Let’s Put This Into Perspective
A recent television programme, The Blackouts of ’74: When Britain Went Dark, examined why the lights went out in 1974 and Britain was reduced to a 3-day working...