A request for information or contact. It is not an application, personal recommendation, quote or mortgage offer.
A request for information or contact. It is not an application, personal recommendation, quote or mortgage offer.
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.
This page explains a word. It does not tell you what to do about it, and nothing here is advice about your circumstances. The guides work through the decisions themselves, and an adviser is the person who can answer a question about you.
Every guide on the site →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.
These guides use the term. Each line is quoted from the page it links to.
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How we operate, and how we are paid →“We work with more than one, so a single name on this page would not be true for every enquiry.”
Privacy: what we collect and who receives it →“A birthday between enquiry and application changes the number.”
Why a calculator figure can change →“The adviser pays us a commission only if a case completes, and that disclosure appears inside the enquiry form itself because the rules require it there.”
Equity release fees, beyond the interest rate →Each of these either appears in the definition above, or names this term in its own.
Short answers to the things that come up most. None of it is advice, and every figure on this page carries its source.
A request for information or contact. It is not an application, personal recommendation, quote or mortgage offer.
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.
No. There is nothing on this page to fill in and nothing is collected by reading it. Looking up what a word means is not a decision, and we are not able to advise you about your own circumstances in any case.
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.
One qualified equity release adviser. They will go through your figures and tell you if there is a better answer. It costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
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