Getting Your Finances In Order
What money will you need for retirement?
You need to think about what money you will need for retirement well before you retire in order to give yourself a chance to tackle any problems. To work out how much you will need when you retire is a process of several stages. Firstly you will have to estimate your household and personal expenses [...]
Travelling Tips
Holiday Homes-and on into retirement
Holidays homes are the major holiday choice for many people nowadays. Popular choices for buying holiday homes are:
-In the UK – at seaside towns or beautiful countryside such as the Lake District – there are more and more purpose-built holiday chalet sites in choice sports
-In Europe – France is very popular and so are Spain and Portugal – and more and more people are choosing holiday homes in Greece or Cyprus and Turkey.
-Farther Afield – Also popular are holiday homes in the USA in Florida and in Cape Town in South Africa, for example.
Why do people invest in holiday homes?
- They are making a considered property investment expecting their property to increase in value at a rate greater than inflation and
- Once the investment is made – there will be cheaper and longer holidays in a lovely place for years- for friends and family too.
- When not in use by the owners it can be sub-let and grow income
- So they can play golf in the sun over an extended period!
Isn’t it a hassle to organise a holiday home abroad?
There are many companies dealing with finding properties and dealing with purchase, and in many cases people know the area where they want a home.
Taking your furniture and goods to your holiday home abroad (including your bicycles and other bulky hobby and leisure items) is easy to organise. A shipping company such as Alliance Shipping will give quotes for shipping whole or par container loads to wherever your home is, saving a great deal of hassle.
Taking Holidays
One of the major goals for many people as they come up to retirement is to have more holidays and enjoy their leisure time. People do vary widely in how much money they have available to spend on holidays, though there are holiday choices giving flexibility at whatever level of retirement income.. [Read More...]
Keeping Healthy
Health in retirement
They say that 60 is the new 40 – as people are living longer many are also keeping fit longer-some say that is because the wartime children and post war baby boomers were brought up on a restricted diet, they were fitter and less fat than young people today. What is certain, as people age [...]
Hobby Ideas
Hobbies in retirement
Some people don’t want to retire and some can’t wait, but many have not really thought through what the sudden cessation of work does to you way of life. “Oh Good! Folks say. All that time to do the things I’ve wanted to do!” For some that is not the reality. Without the regular pattern [...]