Analysis of Housing Equity Withdrawal by its Forms

Declan French, Donal McKillop and Tripti Sharma

No 17-04, CHaRMS Working Papers from Centre for HeAlth Research at the Management School (CHaRMS)

Abstract: Using the household level data from the UK Wealth and Asset Survey for years 2006-2014, we explore a household’s decision to use one particular method of withdrawing home equity from a range of options available to them. These options include financial products such as remortgage contracts and equity release schemes (reverse mortgage and home reversion schemes) and informal mediums carried out by individual households themselves, for example downsizing of homeownership. The results show that homeowners prefer using formal channels of equity withdrawal. This tendency persists when controlling for household characteristics such as age profile, marital status and demographics and levels of housing wealth, income, savings and unsecured and secured debts. Our findings support the argument that while the decision to withdraw home equity conforms to consumption smoothing motives, the choice of an equity withdrawal medium goes beyond those motives and depends on the circumstances facing individual households.

Keywords: Equity release schemes; Reverse mortgage; Refinancing; Downsizing; Housing; Homeownership; Retirement; Wealth de-accumulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D14 E21 G21 J14 R21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2017-10
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