Tag Archives: House

The security of equity in our houses may be under threat.

Posted on October 19, 2026 by henry tapper

Our flat has been for sale for four years: Why is the market so weak? Continue reading →

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We’re so obsessed by the value of our property; we forget we need the wage to live in it!

Posted on October 12, 2026 by henry tapper

We are so emotional about the “family home” that we forget we need a wage in retirement to pay the household and then care bills. IHT relief’s an extension of this obsession. Continue reading →

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How is the pension gender gap widened by divorce?

Posted on July 2, 2026 by henry tapper

I imagined myself “Sarah” on Tuesday night, Sarah a 50 year old recently divorced Mum, facing a future where she could just pay the bills but not plan for later and with what she thought a moderate pension. I was … Continue reading →

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My home is no longer my pension – London estate agents tell me!

Posted on January 12, 2026 by henry tapper

It is a recurring theme that plays in my head from my days selling pensions to my peers back in the 1980s and 1990s (when it was my job). “My house is my pension” Those of us. many of us, … Continue reading →

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What am I worth? The FT can tell you in a number of ways…

Posted on November 5, 2025 by henry tapper

It’s three weeks till the budget and this one’s causing a lot of concern in the Financial Times Jonathan Guthrie knows exactly what he’s doing winding up what Rachel Reeves is calling those with the “broadest shoulders”. Jonathan knows that … Continue reading →

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Could a wealth tax fix our broken economy?

Posted on July 3, 2020 by henry tapper

Britain is broke, for the second time in 12 years our economy has hit the buffers but this time the noises coming out of Government suggest that it is the wealthy who will pay to fix it. This would be … Continue reading →

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Houses are for living in – pensions are for life! An answer to financial economics.

Posted on August 17, 2018 by henry tapper

“the river of private pensions in the UK will only get shallower as it widens out to include so many more of us”  – Steve Bee Steve’s metaphor is so precise, so visual and so elegantly conveyed that this quote … Continue reading →

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Hey Willetts, leave those kids alone

Posted on May 8, 2018 by henry tapper

The Resolution Foundation have today published a paper which has as its central thesis A policy shift is needed to mitigate risks and promote asset accumulation for all It calls on Government to intervene to make society fairer, at least … Continue reading →

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My house is my health plan?

Posted on May 20, 2017 by henry tapper

  It is the one life event we don’t want to talk about. Shakespeare could only talk of it through the fool; Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, … Continue reading →

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If not a house…what ?

Posted on May 5, 2017 by henry tapper

This chart taken from Office of National Statistics Data – seems significant. It shows that in the period following the financial crash renting became the norm for young adults in the UK. Buying a house in your twenties was – … Continue reading →

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