Use of all or part of a home for business purposes. The type, scale, visitors, insurance and title/planning position may affect provider criteria.
Use of all or part of a home for business purposes. The type, scale, visitors, insurance and title/planning position may affect provider criteria.
Equity release may involve a lifetime mortgage, secured against your property, or a home reversion plan. It will reduce the value of your estate and impact funding long-term care.
This is a plain-language explanation of how the term is commonly used in the UK. It carries no source key because it makes no regulatory, product or property claim that needs one. It does not override a provider’s offer, your mortgage conditions, a solicitor’s advice or a regulator’s rules.
Checked 7 September 2026. The whole vocabulary sits on one page, so you can look up two words in the same sentence without going anywhere: see this entry in the full glossary.
Equity release above or beside a business
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“Less obvious and just as caught: a ground-floor home with commercial use over it.”
Equity release above or beside a business →“Commercial use is assessed separately again, and it is drawn widely: the criteria quoted here include renting land to somebody else.”
Equity release with an agricultural tie or land →Each of these either appears in the definition above, or names this term in its own. They belong to the same part of the glossary: property and title terms readers commonly meet.
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Use of all or part of a home for business purposes. The type, scale, visitors, insurance and title/planning position may affect provider criteria.
It is a plain-language explanation of how the term is commonly used in the UK. It carries no source key because it makes no regulatory, product or property claim that would need one, and it does not override a provider's offer, the conditions of a plan you hold, or advice from your solicitor.
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Equity release may involve a lifetime mortgage, secured against your property, or a home reversion plan. It will reduce the value of your estate and impact funding long-term care.
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