Author: The Bower Team

Equity release lending breaks quarterly, half-year and annual records Drawdown accounts for seven in ten new plans agreed More than 22,500 new plans agreed for the first time since 2008 Market has doubled in size since 2011 and exceeds its pre-recession peak by 33%

With more and more people using their housing wealth to raise funds for their retirement, 2015 turned out to be a bumper year for equity release sales. According to the Equity Release Council, lending in the first to the third quarters last year exceeded the total for the whole of 2013, with around £5m of […]