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Women and the State Pension Gap: How Equity Release Could Bridge the Shortfall

By Peter Sharkey on the 15th October 2025

Between 2010 and 2018, the state pension age for women rose from 60 to 65, a decision justified on the rather tenuous grounds that it ‘streamlined’ pension provision in one fell swoop, so matching the age at which men received their payouts.

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Don’t Wait to Live: Why More Over-55s Are Using Equity Release to Move Abroad

By Peter Sharkey on the 15th October 2025

Few historians bother researching or writing about times past when mankind recorded little of interest, noting for future generations that everything was going...

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Why More Over-55s Are Using Equity Release to Upgrade Their Homes and Boost Property Value

By Peter Sharkey on the 14th October 2025

“Well, summer’s officially over,” declared the middle aged electrician as he shuffled through the front porch door and out of the light drizzle, carrying enough...

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Will Higher Property Taxes and Stamp Duty Push More Homeowners Toward Equity Release?

By Peter Sharkey on the 3rd September 2025

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 gover...

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Future-Proofing Your Finances: Why UK Savers Can't Rely on the State Pension Alone

By Peter Sharkey on the 21st August 2025

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...

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Planning Your Retirement? Avoid These Common Mistakes

By Peter Sharkey on the 14th August 2025

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...

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Could Equity Release Be the Answer to Rising Taxes and Pension Shortfalls?

By Peter Sharkey on the 14th August 2025

The lengthening list of government travails have become depressingly familiar of late as our political leaders wrestle with one hugely important economic fact:...

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Can Equity Release Help Pay for a Wedding? Here’s How It Works

By Peter Sharkey on the 30th June 2025

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...

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Don’t Downsize Your Retirement Plans: Discover the Power of Equity Release

By Peter Sharkey on the 30th June 2025

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...

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Worried About Retirement Income? How Over-50s Are Boosting Their Finances with Equity Release

By Peter Sharkey on the 10th June 2025

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...

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