The Estate Registry is a pioneer in the estate services landscape, providing cloud-based solutions designed to ease estate administration and bridge liquidity gaps.
The Estate Registry was established after its founders saw first-hand the administrative burdens and liquidity challenges that can create unnecessary delays and friction in the estate process. Drawing on decades of estate and financial services expertise, The Estate Registry solutions were designed to support executors, legal professionals, and beneficiaries throughout the estate lifecycle.
The Estate Registry’s financial solutions provide access to liquidity through inheritance tax funding, a flexible draw-down facility for essential estate-related costs, and inheritance advances for beneficiaries, with repayment made directly from the estate at the time of distribution.
Complementing these financial services, digital notification solutions simplify time-consuming and repetitive administrative tasks by enabling information and documentation to be submitted once and securely shared with many organisations, while digital estate planning tools provide a secure, centralised vault for important documents and digital assets.
Whether used individually or together, these solutions help estates progress more efficiently from start to finish.
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Email: phickson@estate-registry.com
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