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The owner pays his "Capital Rental" not in cash but in more "equity shares".
If you run the spreadsheets the result is much less toxic than the other options: "reversions" (where the investor takes a punt on how long Granny is going to live) and "roll-up" mortgages at 2% over building society base rate, where the interest rolls up and (at today's rates) the mortgage doubles in 10 years.
So in the perfect world a pensioner could go to his pension fund and have it invest in his home.
For the pension fund it's a REIT clone (LLP's being tax transparent), but simpler and without the management conflicts of the REIT's the Treasury came up with.
Each pension fund could have stakes in a "pool" of its pensioners' properties.
For the pensioner it's the most equitable form of equity release there is.
It's a pity the Chancellor made it impracticable for UK pension funds (I won't bore you with the technicalities).
But that leaves the field wide open for overseas funds - particularly petrodollars looking for a GENUINELY Islamic home - unlike most of the hypocritical crap sold as "Islamic" investment at the moment.
There is over £1 trillion in UK property owned by the over-65's free of mortgage, much of it (unlike public housing rapidly being brought up to "Decent Homes" standards)falling into disrepair because the occupants can hardly afford to live, never mind maintain their homes in good repair.
In Newham, I understand maybe 40% of properties fall into this category. "The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson
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