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I own a 1st floor top flat that I purchased in 2011 for renting purposes. The property is leasehold however there is no service charge or ground rent payable. The freeholder has been absent since I purchased the property and I have no contact details. I purchased a 2nd flat below mine last year, so I now own the top and bottom flat. It's in a building with 6 flats, but they all have private entrances and gardens. The only communal area is the rear grass of the property for the bui

Welsh First Minister, Mark Drakeford, announced A short, sharp “firebreak” will be introduced across Wales at the end of this week to help regain control of coronavirus. The fire-break will start at 6pm on Friday 23 October and end on Monday 9 November. It will apply to everyone living in Wales and will replace the local restrictions which are in force in some parts of the country. What will this mean for people selling or moving home? Can I move home?

Although Covid-19 restrictions began to ease in Q3, the rental market in the capital still struggled to recover, with the average London room rent down 7%, from £780 in Q3 2019 to £725 in Q3 2020. Rents in EC3/Aldgate (-34%) *, W9/Maida Vale/Paddington (-20%) and SW1/Westminster/Belgravia/Pimlico (-17%) saw the biggest falls in London, decreasing dramatically from £1,244, £983 and £1,108 to £824, £788 and £922 respectively year-on-year. In fact, the only London postcode di

How much space can the UK’s average house price of £231k buy you across the country? Home buyers in the West Midlands can afford almost double the floorspace than those in the South East, according to new research1. The study, conducted by self-storage experts, Space Station, took figures from almost 4,000 data points taken from 650 live property ads within the UK average price bracket of £230,000 and £240,0002. The findings show the average size buyers can expect for thi

I own and manage a small HMO and rent the individual rooms on an AST of 6 months. In August a new tenant moved in, 7 weeks into her contract she told me she was now on the shortlist to move to a council flat...

Can anyone advise me on the following CGT issue please? My father died in 1994 leaving my brothers and me the small family farm, but in a will trust allowing my step-mother to remain living there and receive any income from it....

Following the recent revelation that the University of Warwick is dumping hundreds of private landlords in favour of its own student accommodation, it has today come to light that as part of this strategy it appears to have deliberately put landlords subject to Coventry City Council’s controversial Additional Licensing scheme at risk of prosecution and massive fines....

In our 20+ years as landlords we have engaged three sets of accountancy firms. Our family business provides rental accommodation for nearly 300 people and we have always operated through a Limited Company structure. A few weeks ago I watched a YouTube video in which Mark Alexander was interviewed about Smart Property Company structures...