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The Chancellor has abolished multiple dwellings relief for stamp duty land tax. Relief from SDLT for multiple dwellings in England and Northern Ireland...

Sales Market: The UK housing market is at an inflection point, which means mixed signals for buyers and sellers. Inflation has fallen...

The gloomy mood surrounding buy to let with higher taxation and stricter regulation has not stopped it being relatively lucrative for...

Knight Frank says the seasonal autumn bounce has failed to materialise in the UK housing market this year. It was a...

The city of Brighton and Hove attracts the most foreign investment outside of London, a new report has found.  Research by law...

Latest figures from HMRC show that Capital Gains Tax receipts hit a record £16.7 billion in tax year 2021/22 - that’s...

An online property auction specialist has reported its busiest auction of the year for December as it prepares for the last...

New research by Benham and Reeves, highlights that a supporting cast from Singapore is helping to drive UK market activity. The bonus of the...

Following a major planning application to Bradford Council, a ‘spectacular vision’ to transform a vacant office block on the edge of the...

Some valuable research has been carried out by RIFT Tax Refunds which revealed that while income tax, national insurance contributions and...

A property purchase is a convenient way to process the spoils of illegal endeavours, making anti-money laundering checks necessary within the...

Inflation is at a 30-year high, having increased to 9% and experts predict that it could rise to 11% by the...

Owning an overseas property is a dream for many people, but the safest way to ensure this is smooth sailing is...

The number of overseas investors confessing to tax evasion in the UK has more than quadrupled to 338 this year from...

The UK construction sector saw its fastest rate of growth in eight months during February despite a problematic pandemic period, the...

With such a high percentage of investment offers failing to raise finance, you need to be well-prepared when raising money for...

Birmingham is being left behind in the race to deliver new homes, according to Davidson Estates. Ben Davidson, managing director of the...

Taggart Homes has revealed plans for a number of new schemes across the UK, the acquisition of a home building company...

In recent months, residential landlords have been under huge pressure to keep on top of a raft of new legislation and...

In this article, building society The Cumberland - specialists when it comes to holiday let lending - offer expert input on...

Has the post-lockdown staycation boom inspired you to invest in a holiday let property?  Here, Grant Seaton, senior business lending manager...

While restrictions around international travel remain largely uncertain, demand for UK staycations has experienced a meteoric rise. Thousands of holidaymakers are zoning...

More money was spent in the housing market in England and Wales in the year to March than any 12-month period...

From March 1 2021, HMRC’s new VAT domestic reverse charge for building and construction services comes into effect. With this in mind,...

The government has not been quiet in targeting landlords and the rental sector. The changes to mortgage interest restrictions for individuals...

To no-one’s surprise, there haven’t been petitions or concerted pressure from the public, MPs and trade bodies regarding the introduction of...

Here, in this guide piece, the experts at Alexander & Co - a firm of chartered accountants in Manchester - run...

Although it’s been said quite a lot this year, 2020 has been an unprecedented year in history and one in which...

Before the lockdown announcement was made, the number of transactions completed was returning to pre-Covid levels. That is according to Nicky Stevenson,...

When you're disposing of a property, you’ll have to take certain things into consideration, from choosing an estate agent to sell...

Summer 2020 saw changes to the 30-day Capital Gains Tax (CGT) rule come into force and talk of a CGT increase...

A leading property market commentator suggests that an urgent review of Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) and Land and Buildings Transaction...

Now is not the time for property investors to be making costly mistakes when it comes to stamp duty returns, according...

Patrick Cannon, one of the UK’s leading tax barristers, explains why some property investors may be overpaying stamp duty charges. Buying a...

Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which is causing such destruction and disruption to all our lives, new tax legislation is still...

The Birmingham Report, released a few weeks ago by global property consultancy Knight Frank, revealed that the Midlands’ residential development market...

The short-let rental market is booming, despite controversy and opposition around the world. In recent months, we have covered both the...

With a whole new decade nearly upon us, now seems as good a time as any to look back on the...

House prices in England and Wales are set to end the year 4.1% higher than at the end of 2018, reallymoving’s...

The South was mostly to blame for the slump in UK property market sales following the aborted March Brexit deadline, new...

On Wednesday, it was announced by the government that it is launching a review of the high-speed rail link HS2, which...

A Brexit-inspired holiday letting boom is expected to hit the South West this year, according to local holiday letting agency Bournecoast. The...

Brexit uncertainty could lead to more Britons holidaying in the UK, strengthening demand for holiday let rental homes. That is according to...

HMRC’s ‘Let Property Campaign’ has led to disclosures from less than 3% of eligible landlords, new data acquired by accountancy firm...

Almost a third (29%) of UK landlords are still yet to submit their self-assessment before the January 31 deadline, putting them...

Brexit uncertainty is continuing to drive foreign investment in the UK, research by CashbackRemortgages.co.uk has claimed. A third of multi-million pound homes...

The latest HMRC receipt shows £5.5 billion was taken in capital gains tax (CGT) in January, while the taxman is set...

Recently named as the most rapidly improving locations in the UK – investment in the UK’s second city shows no sign...

Research carried out by PwC and thinktank Urban Land Institute has revealed that Birmingham remains a UK property investment hotspot, ranking...

The delay to the implementation of HMRC’s ‘Making Tax Digital’ system announced in July was warmly welcomed by buy-to-let landlords. A plan...

There were 104,760 residential property transactions in the UK in July, up 1.3% from June and 8.3% higher than the corresponding...

A property investor has been jailed for failing to declare Capital Gains Tax from the sale of his rental properties. Richard Fuller,...

Residential property transactions in May dropped by 3.3% on the previous month, following two successive months of growth, in what could...

There has been a sharp increase in the number of commercial property acquisition by investors despite the ongoing political and economic...

Property transactions fell in April this year, down 3.2% on March’s total, according to the latest figures from HM Revenue &...

Sales of homes at the top end of the housing market have collapsed over the past 12 months or so, especially...

A man described as a ‘fraudster on a grand scale’ has been jailed for more than three and a half years...

The bridging sector in the UK has witnessed five-fold growth in lending since 2011, as property professionals have increasingly considered bridging...

The UK housing market remains remarkably solid, as reflected by the 4.9% increase in the volume of residential property transactions between...

Private property investors, including buy-to-let landlords, who missed their self-assessment tax return payment last week and do not have a valid...

Home sales in the UK increased in December compared with the previous month, but were significantly lower than 12 months earlier,...

With just over two weeks remaining until the January 31 Self Assessment deadline, buy-to-let investors are being reminded that there are tax tutorials...

It’s that time of year again. Filing an annual tax return is a necessary task for every self-employed person, including property...

The number of residential property transactions increased by 1% in October compared with the previous month, according to the last HMRC...

You may have to pay capital gains tax if you make a profit when you sell property that is not your...

The Cardiff office market has recorded its best ever third quarter on record, with take up levels reaching 183,992 sq ft,...

Around a third of Britain’s richest people, which includes many property investors, are under tax investigation by HMRC over almost £2bn...

The number of home sales fell sharply in the year to September, the latest figures from the tax office show. According to...

The number of residential property transactions decreased slightly between July and August according to newly released data from HMRC, with last...

A self-employed property investor and caterer from Bermondsey, who confessed to stealing more than £70,000 in a tax credit fraud, has...

Activity levels in the UK’s commercial property market have slowed considerably following the UK vote to leave the European Union, as...

The number of residential property transactions fell by 0.9% between June and July, according to newly released figures from HM Revenue...

The number of residential property transactions in the UK increased by 4.9% between May and June, according to new data from...

Residential property sales in the UK increased by 1.5% in May compared with April but the month’s seasonally adjusted figure is...

Activity in the UK housing market is slowing, as reflected by a fall in the annual rate of property price growth,...

There was a sharp increase in the number of property transactions between February and March 2016 as property investors rushed to...

According to research from the NLA, 4 in 10 landlords are either seriously considering forming a limited company or looking into...