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On 22 November the Chancellor of Exchequer, Philip Hammond introduced to Parliament his Autumn Budget.

Buyers rent back homes to sellers to complete earlier but may be in breach of mortgage terms.

The 2014 Autumn Statement was even more like a mini-Budget than its recent predecessors, probably because the next Budget will be so close to the election.

A summary of the main Budget items affecting farmers and landowners.

Stamp Duty Land Tax Changes from April 2025: What Buyers Need to Know From 1st April 2025, significant changes to Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) will take effect, impacting buyers across England and Wales.

Following the Chancellor’s "morally repugnant" remark in relation to SDLT avoidance during his Budget speech, SDLT is now very much in the news.

I own a flat which I rent out to a tenant. I'd like to give the flat to my son so he can manage the property and benefit from the profits of the tenancy.

In the Summer Budget 2015, it was announced that significant changes would be made to the taxation of foreign domiciled individuals resident in the UK.

While housebuilders were among the biggest winners in the March Budget, the property industry saw little else to write home about.

As reported in our October 2017 edition of Snapshot, the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 ...

Homeowners are likely to lose key tax breaks under the Republican tax plan. Particularly under attack are those individuals who own valuable real estate purchased with a mortgage.

Charities are exempt from SDLT on purchases of property which they are to use either in their charitable work or to create ‘profits’ to fund their charitable work.

Over half a million business occupiers are bracing themselves for a sharp rise in rates when the new valuation list takes effect on 1 April.

In 2010 the owners of a vacant floor of an office building planned to redevelop the floor into three self-contained units.

In the first three months investment volumes topped £4.3bn in Central London – a record for the quarter.

We have not been surprised to witness a significant slowdown in the housing market following the buy-to-let rush to complete on transactions before the 31 March deadline on stamp duty rises for second homes.

The standout item is the recent introduction of the Reserved Investor Fund, a new type of investment fund expected to be of particular interest to commercial real estate strategies.