Helping you and your clients with equity release.
A lifetime mortgage allows your clients to unlock equity from their home without moving and is a loan secured against the client’s home.
Our Lifetime Mortgages can be taken as a lump sum with drawdown options. Choose from Flexible Lifetime Mortgage or Optional Payment Lifetime Mortgage.
Our products
Flexible Lifetime Mortgage
Allows your clients to release equity from their home without having to move or make any monthly payments.
Optional Payment Lifetime Mortgage
Allows your clients to release equity from their home and pay some or all of the monthly interest which will reduce the amount of interest that rolls up.
Energy Saver Cashback offer
Helping your clients
We’ll provide 10% cashback on the total cost of home energy efficiency improvements, up to £1,000 on an initial advance or £200 on a drawdown.
Key documents
Our product documents
Product comparison
Use our comparison table to help decide which product may best suit your clients needs
| Flexible Lifetime Mortgage | Optional Payment Lifetime Mortgage | |
|---|---|---|
| A tax-free lump sum | Included
A minimum loan of £10,000 |
Included
A minimum loan of £10,000 |
| Minimum property value | £70,000 or £100,000 for flats, maisonettes, ex-council, ex-housing association or ex-Ministry of Defence properties. | £70,000 or £100,000 for flats, maisonettes, ex-council, ex-housing association or ex-Ministry of Defence properties. |
| No affordability checks | Included | Included |
| Take additional amounts through drawdown | Included | Included |
| Make overpayments or Optional Partial Repayments (OPR's)1 | Included | Included
Can only be made once your client stopped making the monthly interest payments |
| Fixed interest rates |
Included | |
| Pay some or all of the monthly interest by Direct Debit | Not included | Included |
| Stop making monthly interest payments at any time | Not included | Included |
| Compound interest | Included | Included
By paying some or all of the monthly interest, your client can reduce the overall cost of the lifetime mortgage |
| Stay in and continue to own their home | Included | Included |
| Transfer mortgage when they move home2 | Included | Included |
| No Negative Equity Guarantee | Included | Included |
| May affect means-tested state benefits | Included | Included |
| Inheritance Protection Option (This optional extra allows your client to protect part of the value of their home for inheritance) | Included | Included |
1Subject to terms and conditions.
2Subject to the new property meeting our criteria.
Lifetime Mortgage calculator
Our Lifetime Mortgage calculator helps financial advisers to:
- Show your clients how much they may be able to release from their home.
- Demonstrate examples for both taking the maximum available as an initial advance or taking a smaller initial amount where the remainder can be drawn on in the future.
- Illustrate the effect of our inheritance protection option on the total loan amount available.
- Explore the impact of house price inflation.
- Highlight how the interest on their loan increases over time.
- Create a summary of your client's choices and possible results.
The calculator results are examples only. A lifetime mortgage is a loan secured on your client’s home. It will reduce the value of your client’s estate and may affect their entitlement to means tested state benefits.
Events
We offer a series of CPD accredited events and workshops that support you in understanding the changing face of retirement.
Why choose us
Since our entry into the lifetime mortgage market in 2015, we've been a primary agent of growth and change. Find out why advisers choose Legal & General as a lender.
Tools and getting started
Existing loan information or Further Advance
Request information on your client’s lifetime mortgage or request a Further Advance.
Getting started
Helpful resources and tools to help new advisers get started in the lifetime mortgage market.
Marketing templates
We’ve created some useful templates for posters, letters and emails to save you some time and help you build your business.