by Rob | Jan 9, 2016 | News
“Sorry for the delay in replying to Mr Hailstone. Who’d a thunk moving boxes round an’ pickin’ up, an’ puttin’ down could delay a removal man like me so much?”
by Rob | Jan 8, 2016 | News
A firm of tax accountants has warned that purchasers of second homes and buy-to-let properties who exchange on properties over the next few weeks in order to beat the 3% Stamp Duty surcharge are doing so with their eyes shut.
by Rob | Jan 8, 2016 | News
Conveyancers will need to ‘raise their game’ in what will be a challenging year, a major trade body has warned.
by Rob | Jan 7, 2016 | News
A petition calling for the Chancellor’s tax relief plans for private landlords to be reversed has now achieved almost 49,000 signatures.
by Rob | Jan 7, 2016 | News
Today is the last chance for Estate Agent Today readers to have their concerns about proposed stamp duty increases and recent buy to let tax changes put directly to Prime Minister David Cameron.
by Rob | Jan 7, 2016 | News
HMRC is staging its next anti-money laundering webinar for estate agents next Wednesday.
by Rob | Jan 7, 2016 | News
Conveyancers expect another buoyant year amid changes for the property sector, according to a market snapshot.
by Rob | Jan 6, 2016 | News
Chancellor George Osborne is facing a legal challenge after two private landlords launched a crowdfunding campaign on Boxing Day.
by Rob | Jan 6, 2016 | News
The clock is already ticking for buy-to-let purchases to go through before the 3% Stamp Duty surcharge is implemented on April 1.
by Rob | Jan 6, 2016 | News
Newlyweds Sarah and Ritchie Tough knew the moment they stepped inside the three-bedroom house in a quiet street of an historic market town that this was where they wanted to settle down and raise a family.
by Rob | Jan 5, 2016 | News
Estate Agent Today readers are being given the rare opportunity to have their concerns about proposed stamp duty increases and recent buy to let tax changes put directly to Prime Minister David Cameron.
by Rob | Jan 4, 2016 | News
People who buy their next home before selling their first will have an 18-month window in which to reclaim a 3% Stamp Duty surcharge.
by Rob | Jan 4, 2016 | News
There is just four weeks left for the official consultation period set by the government over its controversial proposal to levy a three per cent stamp duty surcharge on the purchase price of most buy to let and second homes.
by Rob | Jan 4, 2016 | News
Southport law firm Barnetts was a business in “dire straits” and other solicitors “would feel ashamed” at the actions of its senior partner in trying to keep it afloat.
by Rob | Dec 30, 2015 | News
Controversy is growing over the government’s surprise consultation period for its proposal to levy a three per cent stamp duty surcharge on second homes from April 1st.
by Rob | Dec 30, 2015 | News
In-house lawyers have an opportunity to show their mettle as organisations defend themselves.
by Rob | Dec 29, 2015 | News
The government chose Christmas Bank Holiday Monday to launch its formal consultation on the ‘additional properties’ stamp duty surcharge, first announced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement in November.
by Rob | Dec 23, 2015 | News
A conveyancing firm claims there has been a 140 per cent increase in the number of properties requiring leasehold extensions in just the past four years – and that 10,000 transactions a year may be affected by this issue by 2020.
by Rob | Dec 23, 2015 | News
Land Registry have announced measures to end “long running, unresolved disputes.” They now say any unresolved dispute between an applicant and objector must be passed to a First-tier Tribunal after six months if an agreement can’t be reached.
by Rob | Dec 23, 2015 | News
The managing director of a law firm involved in testing Veyo has described how the Law Society realised too late that it had “built something nobody wanted”.
