Reference Briefings

Required Reading: Mishcon de Reya provides an essential briefing on the key announcements in yesterday's Budget statement, highlighting 11 need-to-know policy and tax changes...

AML expert Caroline Walters answers the five most frequently asked questions put to FCS Compliance in 2022 for the property market…

Simon Wren-Lewis, an Economics Professor at the University of Oxford, explores how media coverage of government finances and Budget statements can be confusing, and often misleading - highlighting some…

New 'Biodiversity Net Gain' requirements for property developments are coming soon, to improve wildlife habitats and help slow species decline across the UK.

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…

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.

A recent service update on processing times revealed that the Land Reg receives around 2.3 million applications and requests per month.

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…

Roy Pinnock of Dentons explores the complex use and ramifications of permitted development rights at a property development in Newbury.

The buyer of a barn conversion with 39 acres has managed to pull-off a 'rare win' to pay the lower Stamp Duty rate for mixed-use properties, says Helen Coward of Charles Russell Speechlys.

'From a legal perspective, the branded residence is more complex than a traditional purchase,' write Penny Cox and Jessica Lewis, 'for it is far more than just bricks and mortar.'

Mishcon de Reya highlights the key points and policies from yesterday's Autumn Statement - noting that what wasn't announced is 'arguably more interesting and revealing' than what was in Jeremy Hunt's…