Legal
HMRC warns of looming deadline for companies to revalue UK residential properties
ATED revaluations need to be completed by 1st April.
Competition & Markets Authority launches housebuilding probe
'The quality and cost of housing is one of the biggest issues facing the country,' says CMA boss.
Required Reading: Typed name is sufficient to transfer interest in property
There's 'a wide discretion when showing compliance with the usual legal formalities relating to the transfer of beneficial interests in property', say lawyers Emma Preece & Laura Bushaway, following a…
SDLT: Black and White, or (50) Shades of Grey?
Matt Spencer and Charlotte Jeanroy of Kingsley Napley explore the 'wonderfully complicated' world of Stamp Duty, highlighting a number of legitimate ways buyers can mitigate their transaction tax burden.
The Registration Gap: How long does it take for a transaction to be processed by the Land Registry?
A recent service update on processing times revealed that the Land Reg receives around 2.3 million applications and requests per month.
52,000 UK properties ‘still owned anonymously’, despite new transparency law
Around half of registrable firms have failed to comply with UK's new rules around transparency, new analysis suggests.
Those who missed this week’s overseas entities deadline face ‘severe restrictions on their ability to buy and sell property’
Companies House is 'now assessing and preparing cases for enforcement action'.
Supreme Court rules on Tate Modern privacy case: Lawyer reactions
What are the implications for owners, developers and architects as Neo Bankside residents win their long-running legal battle against the famous London gallery?
Gove gives property developers six weeks notice for unsafe buildings agreement
Housing Secretary warns of 'significant consequences' for housebuilders that fail to comply.
Gove accelerates reform of ‘feudal’ leasehold system
Housing secretary Michael Gove is bringing forward plans to reform England's "outdated" leasehold system.
Michael Gove said leasehold is 'just an unfair form of property ownership'
Required Reading: Japanese knotweed & the law
As the number of legal cases involving Japanese knotweed continue to rise, Rachel Redwood explains how a vendor in SW London has ended up facing a bill of £200k, and what buyers and sellers need to…
Register of Overseas Entities: 31st Jan deadline looms large
New rules are 'already having a major impact on UK real estate transactions and any overseas entities that own affected UK real estate and have not yet registered their beneficial owners at Companies…