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Aviva


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Mark Gregory
Checked for accuracy and updated on 31 October 2023

Aviva are a household name; best known for the range of insurance and pension products they offer. They are also one of the longest standing lifetime mortgage providers in the UK. Aviva’s award-winning equity release products and services have helped over 200,000 people release more than £7 billion of equity from their homes since 1998.

Aviva offer two types of lifetime mortgage: ‘Lifestyle Lump Sum Max’ and ‘Lifestyle Flexible Option’. As their names suggest, the ‘Lifestyle Lump Sum Max’ plan enables you to release a single, one-off lump sum whereas the ‘Lifestyle Flexible Option’ allows you to release an initial lump sum and also set up a reserve fund which you can drawdown against in the future.

The main features that Aviva lifetime mortgages offer include:

  • Inheritance guarantees,
  • voluntary partial repayments (upto 10%pa of the total amount borrowed),
  • enhanced borrowing if you have qualifying medical conditions.

Aviva’s downsizing protection feature allows you to sell your home after 3 years, and repay your lifetime mortgage without incurring any early repayment charges dependent upon the property you move into.

Aviva’s relaxed lending approach now allows them to consider properties with self-contained areas such as annexe’s and holiday lets, plus the inclusion of some commercial use - both within the property and on adjacent land, subject to limits.


Do the high street banks offer lifetime mortgages?

The ‘big' high street banks - that is Halifax, Barclays, Lloyds, HSBC, Santander, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Nationwide don’t currently offer lifetime mortgages or equity release plans themselves.

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