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There’s growing evidence that wider family members - not just Mum and Dad - are stumping up cash to help younger...

In this guest feature, Ben Bailey, CCO at Even, a mortgage lender for first-time buyers launched this year, provides commentary on the end...

If agents wonder why more older home owners don’t sell and downsize, it may be because they’re taking equity out of...

A wealth tax on overseas owners of UK homes could raise £5 billion a year to help local people buy their...

A new report wants the government to consider slapping Capital Gains Tax on profits made from appreciating house values for all...

The equity release market is on course for a record year after customers took out £1.049 billion in property wealth in...

Over-65s saw their property wealth increase by £800 a month recently thanks to frenzied demand during the stamp duty holiday, an equity release...

The Covid-19 crisis has been marked by so-called high-wealth households amassing savings and benefitting from rising house prices far more than...

Tens of billions of pounds of new taxes should be levied through a Capital Gains Tax imposed on main homes, not...

There’s more ammunition today for those agents who argue that equity release stops people moving and thus cuts the number of...

Some 10 per cent of Britons now own a second home, a buy to let or an overseas property according to...

While media attention has been on Theresa May, Brexit and the Tories, chatter in the agency industry has been about what...

Retired homeowners are increasingly using property wealth to clear unsecured debts and mortgages to strengthen their later life finances, a new...

Equity release, seen by many agents as a reason why fewer older homeowners are downsizing these days, has reported more growth...

New figures from the Equity Release Council suggest more growth in this sector, alarming those agents who see this as a...

Young people whose parents have property wealth are now almost three times as likely to be homeowners by the age of...

The average over-65 homeowner in Britain has seen her or his property wealth gain £159,000 – or £7,000 annually - in...

It’s not breaking new ground to say that younger people have what many regard as the raw end of the deal...

A think tank says the penalties now levied against second home owners - such as the stamp duty surcharge and phasing...

Total property wealth owned by over-65s who have paid off their mortgages grew to a new record high of £1.072 trillion...

Retired home owners have gained an average of £26,000 tax-free this year from their houses, new analysis from an over-55s financial...

Property has dominated many of the entries in the Sunday Times’ much-respected Rich List, which names the 1,000 wealthiest individuals with...

Homeowners aged 65 and above have seen their property wealth grow by nearly £17.5 billion in the past three months alone...