Regulation & Law
News articles looking at national legislation and local regulation and the application of law to the residential property industry.
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Is ‘Right to buy’ going horribly wrong?
Red flags flying as housing benefit tenants buy their homes.
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Stamp Duty change whips up a storm
Designs on Property tracks and summarises the monthly property indices. Kate Faulkner says, “Even the higher taxes haven’t dampened investors’ enthusiasm.”
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New Housing & Planning Act
As the new Act became law on 16th May, Housing and Planning Minister Brandon Lewis said, “Our landmark Housing and Planning Act will help anyone who aspires to own their own home achieve their dream.
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Helping buyers save on Stamp Duty Land Tax
Cotswold agency, Butler Sherborn, says that agents can help their buyers to save higher rates of SDLT.
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51 per cent of North East England’s landlords experience abandonment
A process created under the new Housing and Planning Act should help, says the NLA
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Fees to tenants should be banned
LibDems demand that all letting agency fees to tenants should be outlawed.
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Tenants’ money at risk
YouGov poll shows that 61 per cent of renters incorrectly think money is protected by law.
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New anti-money laundering service launches
LonRes has launched ResCheck, a new agent-to-agent anti money laundering (AML) compliance service for its subscribers.
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Conveyancing fraud – cases are on the rise
Fraudsters hacked emails to seller’s solicitor and stole £340,000 proceeds of a property sale.
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£1 billion lease extensions
UK flat owners waste tens of thousands of pounds on informal lease extensions every year completely unnecessarily...
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