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Improve your finances by downsizing to a retirement community

23 April 2024 – As retirees across the UK struggle with declining real income, My Future Living, the UK’s leading retirement rentals brand, highlights how downsizing this Spring could lead to significant savings and provide a chance to declutter. Following…

Take the stress out of downsizing and move to a rental property in a retirement community

In Stress Awareness month[i], Dominic Stead, Property Director at the UK’s leading retirement rentals brand, My Future Living highlights that downsizing and renting in a retirement community is a stress-free option for retirees who want to move to a smaller…

Demand for age-appropriate housing creates opportunity for developers says My Future Living

A new report highlights that demand for age-appropriate housing for older people is rising despite a slowdown in the housing market, and that affordability is a key driver, something that My Future Living, the UK’s leading retirement rentals brand says…

The Great Unretirement: Has the Spring Budget increased UK pensioner poverty?

Latest research finds a growing number of retirees already living on the poverty line amidst the UK’s cost-of-living crisis    18% say their quality of life is going to deteriorate because they don’t have enough money in their pension funds 21% have…

Improve your finances by downsizing to a retirement community this spring

As retirees across the UK struggle with declining real income, My Future Living, the UK’s leading retirement rentals brand, highlights how downsizing this Spring could lead to significant savings and provide a chance to declutter. Following the Spring 2024 budget,…

How moving into a retirement community can help single women conquer loneliness

On average women live longer than men[i] and they can often find they are alone in later life. Approximately 1.4 million older adults in the UK are lonely, with a further 1.9 million stating they often feel ignored and invisible…

How women can retire with purpose by embracing a new homesitting career

To mark International Women’s Day[i] on 8 March, Homesitters Ltd, the UK’s leading home and pet sitting company, is shining a light on the empowering role that becoming a home and pet sitter can be for women looking for a…

Could annuities solve the pension challenge of funding a long retirement?

As Office for National Statistics (ONS)[i] data reveals the over-90’s population of England and Wales reached a record high in 2022, Steve Butler, CEO of retirement solutions at Punter Southall says this could bring major pension funding challenges as it…

Dominic Stead, Property Director at retirement rentals specialists, My Future Living explains why retirement living while working can make financial sense

The issue of the pension age rising to seventy-one is being hotly debated now following new data from the International Longevity Centre[i] suggesting the UK’s state pension age must rise to seventy-one by 2050 to maintain its affordability. It has…

Couples embrace retirement bliss working together as home and pet sitters

In Valentine’s Week, Homesitters Ltd, the UK’s leading home and pet sitting company, is highlighting the romantic benefits of a homesitting lifestyle where couples in retirement can spend quality time together enjoying new experiences. A survey last year by Aviva[i]…