Lifetime Mortgage Advice
A Lifetime Mortgage is a way of unlocking the value of your home and turning it into a tax-free, cash lump-sum.
- No need to have an income
- No need to make monthly payments
- The interest rate applicable to your mortgage is fixed for life!
- Interest-only payment options available
- Use equity release to purchase a new home (bigger or smaller!)


The benefits of taking a lifetime mortgage
Lifetime mortgages provide many benefits, here are a few:
- Release a tax-free cash lump sum to use as you please
- Later life lending is a very effective tool to facilitate wealth preservation via the gifting of money
- Gifting for an early inheritance; experience the joy this can bring
- Add a ‘drawdown’ facility to access additional funds later
- Stay in your own home; no need to move house
- The freedom to move home, should you wish
- No negative equity guarantees
- Inheritance protection options available
- Flexible interest payments available
- Available to homeowners 55 and over


That’s not all!
What is more, releasing funds for your own use can bring transformative benefits by:
- Paying for health challenges
- Funding care costs for a partner, or yourself
- Resolving accessibility issues with your home
- Funding home improvements
- Holidays, car purchase, etc
- Paying off an existing mortgage
- Gifting money to family to get them onto the property ladder, etc
Our satisfied clients
Choose which option you prefer when considering interest charges to Lifetime Mortgages
Rolled-up Interest (by far the most common option chosen)
With these plans, interest is rolled-up for the lifetime of the mortgage, therefore, the amount owed increases over time. Most lenders allow adhoc overpayments of anything up to 10% of the outstanding mortgage to be repaid each year without incurring any penalties, should you find you have surplus funds available. These payments can be started, paused, stopped, restarted at your discretion, if you choose to. There is no obligation to make any payments should you choose not to.
Interest only Lifetime Mortgage
These plans allow you to elect at outset to pay off some or all the interest to the mortgage, should you wish to. This reduces the impact of rolled-up interest. However, please remember, these payments will need to be paid from your income. If at a later date, you decide you no longer wish to make these payments, the mortgage can easily be converted to a rolled-up interest mortgage, without any penalties.
Frog Equity will guide you through the process, step by step; how it works.
01.
Advice
Contact our expert advisor, by phone, in person or via a video call, whichever you prefer.
02.
Search
Craig will research the marketplace to find the most suitable plan for your needs and explain all the options available to you.
03.
Apply
Should you decide to proceed, an application will be made to your chosen lender.
04.
Legal
An independent valuation is carried out, the lender will make the formal mortgage offer. Lastly, your solicitor confirms application can proceed.
05.
Completion
The tax-free lump sum unlocked from your home is paid directly to your bank account… enjoy!
Frog Equity and the Equity Release Council.

The Equity Release Council exists to promote high standards of conduct and practice in the provision of equity release advice. We are members of the Council, so all products offered by us meet minimum standards set by the Equity Release Council.
All our plans come with the following guarantees:
- Stay in your home for as long as you choose
- Freedom to move home without financial penalty (subject to provider criteria)
- No negative equity’ guarantee
A holistic approach to retirement planning by accessing your property wealth
We need a new way of thinking about retirement. For the majority of us, property is our biggest store of wealth, more so than even our pensions. Yet, property is currently used much less than pensions in retirement income planning. It’s important to think more holistically about wealth and being better equipped in this way will help us achieve the retirement we all want to have.
Why is this approach so important now? The answer lies in a combination of long-term trends and recent changes to pension and tax laws:
We’re living longer – this is clearly not new news, but the very relevant truth of this is that there is less income and less certainty in retirement. The reducing numbers of us who will enjoy final salary pension benefits is also a huge factor.
In general, property wealth in the UK continues to rise at a rate of knots. For many of us this is our main store of wealth.
- Since April 2015 we can now access more of our pension from age 55. In other words, we can access pension funds in the same way we would property wealth, utilising equity release.
Changes to tax rules mean that it is arguably better to use property or other savings and investments first, saving pensions for later.
Pensions can now outlive us; many of us will be able to leave pensions to our next of kin, tax-free.

It is clear then, that the way we access property and pension wealth and the ways we use these stores, are becoming ever more similar. To make the most of this we need to change the way we think about both property and pensions. However, whichever way you want to use your pensions, property or other sources of wealth in retirement, it’s crucial to seek professional advice first to ensure you make the best possible decisions for your individual hopes and dreams.
Finding yourself house rich and cash poor? Then no doubt someone has already mentioned a Lifetime Mortgage to you as a way of redressing the imbalance.

Ask our Adviser
Do you have burning questions, or want to know more about lifetime mortgages?
If, so please get in touch with our team.
