Often, your home will be the most valuable thing you own. This is great, but it can be hard to get capital out of it while you’re still living there. You have a couple of options for raising capital from your home without having to move: the sell and rent back scheme or traditional equity release schemes. Reasons for doing this can include needing cash for a business venture, to pay off debt or make an investment. More commonly, it is done by retirees who are ‘asset rich, cash poor’.
For a long time, the most popular way of raising cash from your home has been the equity release scheme. However, these are not without their pitfalls. For example, if you choose to release the equity by moving to a smaller, cheaper property, the costs incurred through moving eat into the cash raised through the equity release process. Also, there is the risk of repossession if you secure a loan against the value of your property, which can result in problems down the line.
Sell and rent back offers an alternative to equity release methods and it isn’t too complicated. You deal with a specialist company who purchases your house from you for a percentage of its market value. They then give you the cash from the sale and you can use the money to do whatever you want. You keep living in the property and just rent it back from the company. This removes the worry of your house sliding into negative equity, which can be a concern with equity release schemes.
One of the main reasons sell and rent back is preferable to equity release is that you can get more of the value of the house out of the deal. With equity release, you’re generally limited to access of around 50% of the value of the house, whereas with sell and rent back, you can typically get between 75-90% of the market value of the property. You can also set a price when you sell the house in case you decide you want to buy it back one day.
Also, one truly great benefit of the sell and rent back scheme is that you no longer have a mortgage to worry about. This can be a load off your mind no matter where you are in life; all you have to do is pay the rent. You also won’t have to panic when it comes to moving out of your home later on as you won’t be the owner and therefore won’t have the same concerns as mortgage-payers of the price dropping into negative equity.
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