Yes but just 50%. They live in a 1970s house in a SE village which is moderately but not massively valuable. Their mortgage was just £30k in 1987.
They actually first proposed a will leaving 33% to my well-paid and happily married brother and 33% to his children! I’m childless and unmarried and have never owned a property. I have the anxiety that runs down one side of the family and am also partially deaf, though this they ignore.
They inherited a half share of three town-centre and city suburb properties which they sold off unnecessarily in 2004 and 2014. These had been in the family since the 1920s and 1950s.
Unfortunately therefore they missed out on the house price inflation of the past 10-20 years, as well as the rent they’d have generated.
There was cash, too, which could have bought out my uncle’s share.
They did once own a BTL in a crappy small town which was an obviously poor investment and they never asked me before purchasing. At the same time I rented a London flat in an area where prices doubled and tripled.
I’d have liked them to have kept hold of the properties they inherited, which there was no need to sell. Or to have bought a flat in London that I could have lived in. Or even a holiday home for themselves which would have appreciated in value.
They would counter that they often helped me with living expenses (I also received housing benefit). And that I’ve been able to move back in with them when things have gone belly-up.
But they never thought of me when it came
to the big decisions. Instead they’ve enjoyed a long upper middle class retirement (my mother only worked for 20-25 years also) after very ordinary middle class careers.