Why advisers should warm to lifetime mortgages in response to frozen IHT thresholds

When it comes to Budget announcements, we've never seen anything quite like it. The weeks of rumours and drip-fed hints of what's to come have become par for the course, but for the contents of the speech to be widely available before the chancellor has even stood up was, shall we say, more than highly unusual. As a result, there was no great sense of surprise when Rachel Reeves finally confirmed that a host of tax thresholds, including for Inheritance Tax (IHT), would be frozen for a further three years, taking us up to April 2031. However, the impact of this freeze may be significan...