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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.
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.
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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.
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“Source: LTV by age schedule, July 2026, supplied to us by the adviser, checked 5 September 2026.”
Equity release, with every figure sourced and dated →“Source: LTV by age schedule, July 2026, supplied to us by the adviser.”
Equity release calculator: how much could you release? →“Source: Advise Wise weekly update, w/c 19 December 2025.”
Equity release interest rates, and how to read one →“A number with no source cannot be checked, argued with, or updated when it changes.”
How we check our figures, and what we got wrong →“We publish information about equity release, with a source and a date on every figure.”
How we operate, and how we are paid →“The only source for its own Council Tax Support scheme, because the rules are set locally.”
Equity release and means-tested benefits →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.
The original document or organisation supporting a factual statement. For this site, sources must be named, linked, dated and rechecked when the claim can change.
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.
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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