Harriet Meyer is an award-winning freelance financial journalist with more than 20 years’ experience writing about personal finance for broadsheet newspapers, consumer websites and magazines. Previously, she worked as editor of The Observer’s ‘Cash’ section, and was part of The Daily Telegraph’s Money team. She’s also worked as a BBC producer on radio money shows … [Read more…]
Harriet Meyer is an award-winning freelance financial journalist with more than 20 years’ experience writing about personal finance for broadsheet newspapers, consumer websites and magazines. Previously, she worked as editor of The Observer’s ‘Cash’ section, and was part of The Daily Telegraph’s Money team. She’s also worked as a BBC producer on radio money shows … [Read more…]
There are several key differences between retirement interest-only mortgages and lifetime mortgages. These include: When you take out a retirement interest-only mortgage, you make monthly payments to pay the interest you owe. If you don’t keep up with your monthly interest repayments on an RIO mortgage, there is still the risk of repossession, in the … [Read more…]
When we set out to build Rest Less, we wanted to be a trusted place where you could find helpful information about a wide range of topics and issues affecting the over 50s. As a free to use resource, we try hard to provide the best information we can, but we cannot guarantee we won’t … [Read more…]
Melanie Wright is money editor at Rest Less. An award-winning financial journalist, she has written about personal finance for the past 25 years, and specialises in mortgages, savings and pensions. She is a former Deputy Editor of The Daily Telegraph’s Your Money section, wrote the Sunday Mirror’s Money section for over a decade, and has … [Read more…]