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Latest property news
ARPM fall-out continues as former employee wins cash claim
Ash Residential Property Management went bust last year owing creditors £1.48m but it must now pay a former employee several thousand pounds.
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Housing Market
Cost of living forces one in four homebuyers to put off purchase
The last set of figures from ONS showed a 12.4% year-on-year increase, compared to 9.7% the previous month, as demand continued to outstrip supply.
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Features
Under scrutiny
The need to ensure that anti-money laundering checks are carried out to the letter has never been greater. Richard Reed consults some experts in the field.
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Latest property news
Not on your nelly, Rishi! Report reveals agent hostility to helping HMRC tax landlords
Government reveals it has been toying with proposals to ask agents to submit landlord rental income to HMRC, but consultation reveals widespread rejection of the idea.
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Latest property news
Agents say ‘distressed’ Simplify clients being chased twice for stamp duty
Payments to Simplify to settle their stamp duty bills are the latest casualty of the conveyancing giant's IT meltdown.
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Latest property news
LATEST: ARPM collapsed despite £245,000 government-backed Covid loan
Accounts for year ending May last year show company was lent the money via the HMRC's CBILS programme.
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Latest property news
Stamp duty holiday cost government £2.8 billion, latest figures reveal
While some agents have thanks the chancellor for his SDLT-prompted property boom this year, others wonder if it was all worth it.
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Agencies & People
Is Purplebricks crumbling?
The recent announcement of a significant recasting of its business model leads Nigel Lewis to wonder where that leaves the great disruptor.
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Latest property news
Letting agents and landlords given 12 months longer to get ready for tax changes
Making Tax Digital initiative will see many landlords report income quarterly instead of annually but now not until 2024.
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Latest property news
HMRC’s ‘minister for stamp duty’ Jesse Norman is sacked
MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire and now former Treasury minister was instrumental in taking property industry feedback about introducing the stamp duty holiday.
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