Planning for retirement
- Residents aged 65 or over
- 14.7%
If retirement is your reason for seeking advice, ask how the adviser plans withdrawals and reviews your income over time.
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Brighton and Hove has a broad professional and business community, with local adviser searches naturally extending into East Sussex when specialist fit matters.
Brighton, Hove and nearby East Sussex can form one practical face-to-face advice market. Remote advice can widen the specialist pool further.
What to compare before choosingThe local-authority figures cover the Brighton and Hove council area, rather than Brighton alone. Each figure shows the period it covers.
If retirement is your reason for seeking advice, ask how the adviser plans withdrawals and reviews your income over time.
Questions for a retirement adviserIf you work for yourself, ask how pension contributions fit with variable income and business commitments.
Advice when you are self-employedIf your plans involve selling or inheriting a home, ask how the adviser considers property alongside savings and pensions.
Planning after a property saleArea averages do not describe your own finances or determine whether you need advice. See the full figures and sources.
Ask for initial advice and ongoing charges separately, including any minimum fee. Compare the cost in pounds and check which other charges apply.
What firms include in their published prices0.75% of £500,000
Example only. Initial advice, platform, fund and product charges are excluded. This is not a quote.Use the fee calculatorStart with the advice need, then check regulation, specialist experience, minimum assets, service style and fees.
Yes. Hove is part of the same city area, and nearby East Sussex can widen the adviser pool while keeping meetings practical.
There is no single Brighton tariff. Compare the year-one and normal ongoing cash cost and what service is actually included.
Ask how the adviser works with business owners and how company decisions fit into personal financial planning. Compare that experience alongside fees and local or remote meeting arrangements.
Advisedly will review your enquiry and contact you about the next step. When you request an introduction, you agree that we may share your details with the financial advice firm we select for your enquiry.
We aim to confirm that we have received your enquiry within one working day and update you on the next step within two working days. Working days are Monday to Friday, excluding bank holidays.
How enquiries are reviewedConsider nearby places alongside the experience and meeting arrangements you need.
The local-authority figures cover the Brighton and Hove council area, rather than Brighton alone. Each figure shows the period it covers.
Company figures are not adviser counts. They count active company registrations in selected business categories (SIC codes 64999, 66190, 70221) and do not show FCA authorisation or whether a business trades locally.
Sources: Companies House · ONS population estimates · ONS local statistics · Open Government Licence v3.0.
For Brighton and Hove, the 2021 Census gives this industry breakdown: Education accounts for 12.6% of employment, 2.7 percentage points above the England benchmark. Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles accounts for 12.2% of employment, 2.8 percentage points below the England benchmark. Human health and social work activities accounts for 16.1% of employment, 1.5 percentage points above the England benchmark. Among the three sectors shown, Human health and social work activities is 3.9 percentage points higher than Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles. These figures show which industries local residents work in. They do not measure demand for financial advice or the number of advisers.
Gross median weekly pay was £636.9 in 2025. Gross disposable household income per head was £30,073 in 2024. The published average house price was £407,803 in June 2026. The self-employment rate among people in work is 22.5%, compared with 16.9% across England. The figures come from different time periods and measure different things. They do not describe the finances of a typical household.
These population figures cover the Brighton and Hove local authority area. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates 284,170 residents, with 14.7% aged 65 or over. The geography is the named council area; it should not be read as a separate total for Brighton.
The selected Companies House business categories contain 5 active registrations mapped to Brighton; the Brighton travel-to-work area contains 315. These figures count registered companies in the area. They do not show how many financial advisers work here, whether a company trades locally or whether it is FCA authorised.
Brighton. Photograph by Xgkkp. CC BY-SA 3.0.