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“When it comes to housing policy, there is little difference between the two major parties” says Aneisha Beveridge, head of research...

A controversial stamp duty change - announced months ago but coming into effect tomorrow - has been described as a missed...

The management of BTL properties, whether it's a modest collection of three units or a more sizable portfolio of fifteen, can...

Although SDLT receipts have been volatile in recent years, the property tax’s effectiveness as a revenue-raiser for the Government is not...

Landlords are selling up in significant volumes these days - partly to cash in on capital appreciation, but mostly thanks to...

According to a London property management company, the profile of renters in prime London is varying hugely.  Glenfield Property Management says that...

Research by Quickmove Properties estimate that, despite changes to stamp duty thresholds implemented last September designed to save homebuyers money, the...

Scores of portfolio landlords are incorporating their property portfolio as limited companies, which could save hundreds of thousands of pounds on...

Property taxes in Scotland have increased by nearly a quarter of a billion pounds in the last year compared to the...

Yes, it’s that time again when the property hoi polloi impose their predictions for the following year on us and so,...

If you are involved in property, it is important for tax purposes to be aware if your activities will be classed...

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has announced that stamp duty will be cut.  In future there will be no stamp duty on the first £250,000...

More SME landlords are seeking advice about whether now is the right time to incorporate, before progressing plans to secure more...

Landlords in London contributed to an extraordinary £440m in stamp duty paid on purchases in the first six months since the...

A little-known law unearthed by a lettings agency may be bad news because it means some private renters are likely to...

A leading accountancy firm says the relative good health of the rental market and house price appreciation will trigger stricter enforcement...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

The many thousands of landlords who have snapped up properties have been advised to be on alert - a tax consultancy...

A combination of the longer stamp duty holiday and sustained low interest rates are likely to spur a new wave of...

No news is good news, they say - and the absence of any announcement about Capital Gains Tax in thre Budget...

This afternoon's Budget has seen dramatic announcements from Chancellor Rishi Sunak referring to the private rental sector. For landlords buying properties, the stamp...

A record pipeline has been reported by one of the leading buy to let mortgage lenders as landlords race to beat...

There’s a warning today that landlords need to move quickly and selectively if they are intending to purchase a property ahead...

There’s been a howl of disgust from the UK’s major landlord group following the Welsh Government’s shock increase in stamp duty. Landlord...

A tax specialist says the HMRC has amended its guidance on stamp duty in such a way as to suggest many...

An international consultancy specialising in investors’ residency and citizenship has lifted the lid on the huge tax savings open to overseas...

Although the last six months have undoubtedly been difficult for many property investors and landlords for others this has been a...

Demand for property has soared as purchasers, including buy to-let investors, make the most of Rishi Sunak's stamp duty holiday, but...

There has never been a harder time to be a landlord in the UK. The pressures that the last six months...

Now is potentially a good time for buy-to-let landlords to become limited companies, according to accountancy firm MJ Bushell.  Property tax specialists...

Knight Frank forecast that residential property sales will fall by 38% this year, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Based on the assumption that...

They may be part of the Union, but the process of buying and selling property in Scotland and England differs markedly.  It’s...

When it comes to buying, selling, letting or renting a property, you will likely be faced with words, phrases, acronyms and...

The government’s decision to launch a consultation into a proposal to add 1% onto the stamp duty paid when buying a home in England...

The reversal of controversial alterations to mortgage interest relief and the scrapping of the 3% stamp duty surcharge on additional properties understandably...

The Chancellor Philip Hammond may have only announced last week that the Autumn Budget will take place on Monday 29 October,...

An online petition calling for buy-to-let tax relief changes to be reversed has received almost 16,500 signatures. Buy-to-let landlord and property investment...

The government has responded to a petition calling on the reintroduction of full mortgage interest relief and the scrapping of the...

The Treasury has so far pocketed around £2bn as a result of the 3% stamp duty surcharge on additional homes, including...

Philip Hammond’s failure to reverse the previous chancellor George Osborne’s deeply unpopular tax reforms will have far-reaching implications for the buy-to-let...

The prime rental market in the capital has benefitted from the sales slowdown, with greater stock and more people needing to...

Almost 40% of Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) raised in the third quarter of the year came from property transactions which...

Our new Chancellor, Philip Hammond, looks like a considered man and one hopes that he will be able to ‘kick away’...

Enquiries from investors seeking to acquire buy-to-let properties have increased by 30% since May, following an initial dip in activity after the...

The chancellor Philip Hammond is being urged to reverse George Osborne’s outright assault on buy-to-let by scrapping the 3% stamp duty...

The Society of Licensed Conveyancers (SLC) has called for the government to abolish stamp duty to create a more “buoyant and...

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

The government’s attack on landlords is unlikely to end anytime soon despite widespread criticisms, after it released details of how the...

April provided the government with the highest Stamp Duty Land Tax (‘SDLT’) revenue ever recorded for a single month, according to...

The recent increase in stamp duty land tax (“SDLT”) on “additional residential dwellings” represents the latest in a series of measures...

Peer-to-peer lender LendInvest has examined the financial impact on landlords – and their tenants – of the additional 3% Stamp Duty...