UK Property News Archive

  • U-turn on Death Tax Politics.co.uk 18 July 2010 The Conservatives stand accused of abandoning their outright opposition to Labour's 'death tax' proposals for funding social care. Read more
  • Budget 2010 effects investors Telegraph 20 June 2010 Experts estimate that nearly all of the 1 million buy-to-let investors and 250,000 second home owners will be liable for CGT at the new higher rate of 28 per cent, even if they are basic rate taxpayers. Read more
  • Brighton 1 - Hartlepool 0 11 April 2010 The most recent house price data from the Land registry shows an annual seven percent rise in house prices across the UK. Read more
  • Care revolution Death Tax Guardian 30 March 2010 Labour stood accused of hiding plans for a "death tax" to fund universal social care for elderly people in the small print of a long-awaited white paper published today. Read more
  • Nuclear Bunker for sale on Ebay Alex Coxall 28 Feb. 2010 Property overlooking the Peak District = £25,200. Surviving Nuclear apocalypse = Priceless Read more
  • Concerns over 'Heir Hunting' Law Society Gazette 21 Feb. 2010 In May 2009, Trevor Moore, a 61-year-old IT consultant from Hertfordshire, was alerted to the existence of a hitherto unknown cousin by the approach of a one-man-band probate research company that was looking for potential beneficiaries for an unclaimed estate Read more
  • Identity theft hits Spanish property Alex Coxall 7 Feb. 2010 Identity theft could pose as big a threat to Spanish property owners as the application of CostaLaw (Ley de Costas), illegal building licences, demolition orders and 'Land Grab' laws, according to leading Spanish property website Fly2Let. Read more
  • Will writers under scrutiny Citiwire 10 Jan. 2010 The Law Society has made a move to outlaw rogue or unqualified will writers. Over half the population hasn’t made a will and of those who have, a significant proportion of their wills are likely to have been written by unqualified will writers – leaving clients with no form of redress if things go wrong. Read more
  • House Prices Up 0.5% ST 1 Nov. 2009 LONDON - UK HOUSE prices climbed 0.5 per cent in October, marking the sixth consecutive monthly rise, although at a slower pace, a major mortgage lender reported on Friday. Read more
  • Property Queen Alex Coxall 27 Oct. 2009 It is reassuring to know that not everyone has been hit so hard by the property slump. It would seem that the Queen has done rather well, seeing a $500 million boost in her £6.5 billion property portfolio over the last six months. Read more
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