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Optional Payment Lifetime Mortgage

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What is an Optional Payment Lifetime Mortgage?

Tax-free cash, with optional payments

Our Optional Payment Lifetime Mortgage is a type of equity release, enabling you to release money from the value of your home while continuing to live there. It’s a loan secured against your home and you can take the money as a tax-free lump sum or access smaller amounts when you need them.

You can make monthly interest payments to help reduce the overall cost of the loan and can stop making payments at any time. However, once you stop, you won’t be able to start them again.

Depending on when you took out your lifetime mortgage, you may have received a reduced interest rate whilst you are making monthly interest payments.  You can find full details in your Offer of Loan

  • Tax-free cash
    Since the money you release, with a lifetime mortgage is borrowed from your equity, it remains tax-free.
  • Option to make monthly payments
    You can pay some or all of the monthly interest to reduce the overall cost of the loan, and you can stop making payments at any time.
  • Release equity when you need it.
    There’s flexibility to borrow more in the future if you choose not to take the full amount available upfront. If you take smaller amounts later, a different interest rate may apply to each amount to take, depending on interest rates available at the time.
  • Guaranteed no negative equity
    We guarantee that your beneficiaries will never have to pay more than the sale value of your home. This is as long as the property is sold for the best price reasonably obtainable and you’ve met the product Terms and Conditions

  • Reduced interest rate
    Depending on when you took your lifetime mortgage you may have a reduced interest rate that applies whilst you’re making monthly interest payments. After 15 years the reduced rate will apply for the rest of the lifetime mortgage, even if you stop making monthly interest payments.
Find out more about how equity release works

  • Am I eligible?
    You must be 55 or over and living in (or buying) your own home, with either a small or no mortgage. Your home will need to be worth a minimum of £70,000 or £100,000 for flats, maisonettes, ex-council, ex-housing association or ex-Ministry of Defence properties.

  • I have an Interest Only Mortgage
    If you have an existing interest-only mortgage that’s coming to an end and you can still make Monthly Interest Payments, then an Optional Payment Lifetime Mortgage or Retirement Interest Only mortgage could be for you. With our Optional Payment Lifetime Mortgage you can choose to pay all or some of the monthly interest for the rest of your life, or until you decide to stop (any unpaid interest is added to the amount you owe).

  • I want to take lump sums
    Optional Payment Lifetime Mortgage lets you take a one off lump sum, or smaller amounts as and when you need them. You can borrow a minimum of £10,000 in your first release and then future lump sums of at least £1,000 each time.

  • I want some flexibility later
    If you want the option to release more equity in the future, then an adviser can help you achieve this with a lifetime mortgage. If you take smaller amounts later, a different interest rate may apply to each amount to take, depending on interest rates available at the time.

Find out more in our Lifetime Mortgage guide

  • Impact on inheritance
    A lifetime mortgage will reduce any inheritance you wish to leave. When you apply for a lifetime mortgage, there's an option to take inheritance protection to secure a proportion of the net sale proceeds of your home.

  • Early Repayment Charges
    As a lifetime mortgage is designed to last a lifetime. If you decide to repay your lifetime mortgage in full, you may have to pay an Early Repayment Charge which could be substantial, so think carefully before you decide.

  • Moving home
    You can move home, and the loan will be transferred as long as the new property meets our requirements.

  • Means tested benefits
    Taking out a lifetime mortgage may affect your entitlement to means-tested benefits or pension credit.

  • Compound interest
    Interest is charged on the loan, plus any interest already added. So, if you don’t pay some or all of the monthly interest, the amount you owe will increase quickly over time. There may be cheaper ways to borrow money.

The pros and cons of equity release

Equity release calculator

This calculator helps you see how much equity you could release with a lifetime mortgage, a loan secured against your home. We’ll ask you to register your details so we can show you the calculation. You may also receive a call from us to assist you with your enquiry.

Before you start

  • The amount you can borrow is based on your age and the value of your home, but this might be less when you come to apply. If you are the sole borrower you may be able to release more.
  • If you're applying for a joint lifetime mortgage, enter the age of the youngest applicant.
  • You need to be between the ages of 50 and 90.
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This is a guide to the lifetime mortgage products we offer, and not advice or a personal recommendation. You can only buy a lifetime mortgage through a financial adviser.

If we call, we’ll use your address to look up your property to assist with your enquiry.

Just one more step…

To find out how much you could receive, and to get a call back to discuss the product details, please complete the form. You can also provide your email address if you’d like to opt in to receiving emails about our products and services.

We’ll never share your details with third parties for their own marketing purposes. Details of how we process your information can be found in our privacy notice. You can opt out of marketing at any time by emailing LGFAoptout@landg.com.

Based on the information supplied you could release:
This is an estimate. The amount you can release depends on your property, its value and your individual circumstances. Speak to an adviser to find out how much you could release.

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Equity Release Council

Legal & General Home Finance Ltd is a member of the Equity Release Council, a trade body setting standards for providers.

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