Legal
Bogus high-end building firm used a fake show home
Fraudsters used a kitchen extension built by someone else to lure in £800k from unsuspecting homeowners across London and the Home Counties
Class action case against online estate agencies moves forward with ‘hundreds’ of claimants
Contractors 4 Justice says it has been "inundated with interest from hundreds upon hundreds of Purplebricks agents in particular". Purplebricks insists "there is no legal basis for this potential action".
Scotland to regulate short-let properties
New laws could mandate licenses for Airbnb hosts and holiday rentals in Scotland.
Kingsley Napley creates new tax practice
“The intention is to service tax matters in-house more than the firm has done historically and to add further specialists in due course,” says top law firm as it recruits new partners.
A seller’s market snapshot: fail to prepare, prepare to fail
Lawyer Annabel Dean shares some practical tips for those looking to compete in this most challenging of markets…
Land Registry to bump up fees
The Land Registry is to increase its land registration fees next year.
The Telegraph: Tech billionaires are making battlefields of their English country estates by alienating the locals
In this entertaining piece for the Telegraph, Helen Kirwan-Taylor reports on rising tensions between local residents and wealthy buyers snapping up the UK’s finest country estates.
How to protect against ‘Friday fraud’
Legal bodies issue official guidance for buyers as cases of conveyancing fraud soar amid the market boom.
Kingsley Napley boosts real estate team
Claire Lamkin has moved from Blake Morgan to become the sixth Partner in Kingsley Napley's Real Estate & Construction team.
Pandora Papers: ‘It’s time to pursue lawyers and accountants who enable tax evasion’
"It’s fascinating that so many of these people in the public eye must have known that eventually their activities would become common knowledge, and yet they opted for offshore secrecy anyway," says…
‘Pandora Papers’ leak exposes more offshore London property deals
"Secret" owners of luxury homes in London have been revealed in a huge data leak, including details of a widely-reported Qatari-owned property on Cornwall Terrace.
Another massive data leak reveals offshore dealings of the rich & famous
The so-called "Pandora Papers" have exposed the money trails and property dealings of some of the world's wealthiest and most influential people, including a former British Prime Minister.