# Legacy income up 10% in 2016

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/03/07/legacy-income-10-2016/
- Published: 2017-03-07T09:20:54+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Total legacy income rose 10.3% in the 12 months to December 2016, according to
Legacy Foresight’s first Legacy Bulletin of 2017, with no signs of slowing.**

 

[Legacy Foresight](http://www.legacyforesight.co.uk/)’s 83 Legacy Monitor Consortium
members received £1.43bn in legacy income during this period, and 52,300 bequests:
a slight decrease of 0.8%.

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Legacy Insight is attributing the growth in income to a higher number of deaths 
than expected, coupled with and a better than anticipated economic performance. 
According to Legacy Insight, while deaths did drop last year following a spike in
2014/15, they did not drop as far as had been predicted. Annual deaths now stand
at 600,000; 9% higher than at the start of the decade.

 

The UK’s economy, the Bulletin says, has seen UK house prices rise by 2.5% since
the Brexit referendum, while UK share prices have also risen: by 11% since July,
due to a rise in British exports. This, Legacy Insight says, has been caused by 
a 10% fall in the value of Sterling, which has made exports cheaper. Residual legacy
values are also up, according to the figures, and now stand at £58,400.

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