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 to move at the same protracted pace as the UK’s frustratingly slow, chain-dependent process which, in turn, also insists that all of those involved display an immediate and clear understanding of occasionally complex legalese.
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...
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...
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...
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....
Will Your Pension Last? How to Avoid a Retirement Income Shortfall
Do you find that clocks appear to go much faster in the morning, especially when you’re in a hurry? One minute it’s 6.30am and you have loads of time to shower,...
What a Tube Journey Reveals About Retirement, Travel, and the Future of Pensions
London’s underground trains could never be seriously depicted as friendly, social hubs, affable places where you’re always likely to strike up conversation with...
The Many Faces of Tax: Why Britons Pay More Than They Think
January and February don’t have to be the “miserable months”, although bidding farewell to an all-too-brief period of annual over-indulgence and welcome relaxat...