In today's world, more and more people are living longer and although they have a reasonably good idea of when they are likely to retire, it is often very difficult to know exactly where their pension will come from and how far it will stretch.

Brits are renowned for being a little crazy about property. Over the past few years, this craziness has turned to near insanity. A huge number of so called investors have been buying off plan properties as far as Europe, Middle East and even Australia. Majority of these investors have been buying in places which they have neither visited or neither point out on a map!

Despite growing evidence of a slow down in the UK housing market, a large number of residents now feel that buying property is much safer than putting their hard earned money in to a higher savings account in a bank or building society.