Holmes & Hills Solicitors are pleased to announce that additional solicitors have individually joined the Equity Release Council as members and specialist equity release solicitors.
Equity release refers to accessing the capital tied up in your home, permitting that you are over the age of 55. If you aren’t ready to downsize your home, equity release could be a viable solution. These funds can be used for anything but are typically used for gifted deposits to children buying a house, to buy a new car or to pay off existing debts.
The Equity Release Council are the main industry body for the equity release sector. The Council works to ensure that the role housing equity can play in later life is widely understood and available – whether for paying for care fees, supporting loved ones, enhancing lifestyle, or just for peace of mind.
Holmes & Hills now have 5 lawyers recognised – these are Partner Beth Greig, Senior Chartered Legal Executive David Hill, Senior Solicitor Rhyannon Andrews, Partner Rebecca Hempstead and Solicitor Aimee Evenett.
Beth Greig, Partner and Head of the Residential Property Department, said she is ‘thrilled with the increase of the firm’s equity release specialists recognised by the Equity Release Council’, and that ‘it is important that this area is advised on carefully and expertly as the need grows for Equity Release in the current economic climate’.
If you are in need of any equity release legal advice, Holmes and Hills Solicitors are available at all seven offices throughout Essex and Suffolk, or an equity release lawyer can visit you in your own home*.
*This comes at an additional cost.
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