Privacy Policy
BACKGROUND:
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Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of Our Privacy Policy is deemed to occur upon your first use of Our Site
. If you do not accept and agree with this Privacy Policy, you must stop using Our Site immediately.
- Definitions and Interpretation
In this Policy the following terms shall have the following meanings:
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| “Cookie Law” |
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| “personal data” |
means any and all data that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that data. In this case, it means personal data that you give to Us via Our Site. This definition shall, where applicable, incorporate the definitions provided in the EU Regulation 2016/679 – the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”); and |
| “We/Us/Our” |
Means Property118 Ltd , a limited company registered in England under company number 10295964, whose registered address is 1st Floor, Woburn House, 84 St Benedicts Street, Norwich, NR2 4AB. |
- Information About Us
- Our Site is owned and operated by Property118 Ltd, a limited company registered in England under company number 10295964, whose registered address is 1st Floor, Woburn House, 84 St Benedicts Street, Norwich, NR2 4AB.
- Our VAT number is 990 0332 34.
- Our Data Protection Officer is Neil Patterson, and can be contacted by email at npatterson@property118.com, by telephone on 01603 489118, or by post at 1st Floor, Woburn House, 84 St Benedicts Street, Norwich, NR2 4AB.
- What Does This Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of Our Site. Our Site may contain links to other websites. Please note that We have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and We advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.
- Your Rights
- As a data subject, you have the following rights under the GDPR, which this Policy and Our use of personal data have been designed to uphold:
- The right to be informed about Our collection and use of personal data;
- The right of access to the personal data We hold about you (see section 12);
- The right to rectification if any personal data We hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete (please contact Us using the details in section 14);
- The right to be forgotten – i.e. the right to ask Us to delete any personal data We hold about you (We only hold your personal data for a limited time, as explained in section 6 but if you would like Us to delete it sooner, please contact Us using the details in section 14);
- The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data;
- The right to data portability (obtaining a copy of your personal data to re-use with another service or organisation);
- The right to object to Us using your personal data for particular purposes; and
- If you have any cause for complaint about Our use of your personal data, please contact Us using the details provided in section 14 and We will do Our best to solve the problem for you. If We are unable to help, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK’s supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office.
- For further information about your rights, please contact the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.
- What Data Do We Collect?
Depending upon your use of Our Site, We may collect some or all of the following personal data (please also see section 13 on Our use of Cookies and similar technologies):
- Name;
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- Address and post code;
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- Number of properties owned;
- Accountants details;
- Contact information such as email addresses and telephone numbers;
- Proof of residence and ID;
- Financial information such as income and tax status;
- Landlords insurance renewal dates;
- Property Portfolio details such as value and mortgage outstanding;
- How Do We Use Your Data?
- All personal data is processed and stored securely, for no longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. We will comply with Our obligations and safeguard your rights under the GDPR at all times. For more details on security see section 7, below.
- Our use of your personal data will always have a lawful basis, either because it is necessary for our performance of a contract with you, because you have consented to our use of your personal data (e.g. by subscribing to emails), or because it is in our legitimate interests. Specifically, we may use your data for the following purposes:
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- Supplying our products and or services to you (please note that We require your personal data in order to enter into a contract with you);
- Personalising and tailoring our products and or services for you;
- Replying to emails from you;
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- Analysing your use of our site and gathering feedback to enable us to continually improve our site and your user experience;
- Provide information to our partner service and product suppliers at your request.
- With your permission and/or where permitted by law, We may also use your data for marketing purposes which may include contacting you by email and or telephone with information, news and offers on our products and or We will not, however, send you any unsolicited marketing or spam and will take all reasonable steps to ensure that We fully protect your rights and comply with Our obligations under the GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.
- You have the right to withdraw your consent to us using your personal data at any time, and to request that we delete it.
- We do not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Data will therefore be retained for the following periods (or its retention will be determined on the following bases):
- Member profile information is collected with your consent and can be amended or deleted at any time by you;
- Anti-Money Laundering information and tax consultancy records are to be kept as required by law for up to seven years.
- How and Where Do We Store Your Data?
- We only keep your personal data for as long as We need to in order to use it as described above in section 6, and/or for as long as We have your permission to keep it.
- Some or all of your data may be stored outside of the European Economic Area (“the EEA”) (The EEA consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein). You are deemed to accept and agree to this by using our site and submitting information to Us. If we do store data outside the EEA, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the GDPR
- Data security is very important to Us, and to protect your data We have taken suitable measures to safeguard and secure data collected through Our Site.
- Do We Share Your Data?
- We may share your data with other partner companies in for the purpose of supplying products or services you have requested.
- We may sometimes contract with third parties to supply products and services to you on Our behalf. Where any of your data is required for such a purpose, We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data will be handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, Our obligations, and the obligations of the third party under the law.
- We may compile statistics about the use of Our Site including data on traffic, usage patterns, user numbers, sales, and other information. All such data will be anonymised and will not include any personally identifying data, or any anonymised data that can be combined with other data and used to identify you. We may from time to time share such data with third parties such as prospective investors, affiliates, partners, and advertisers. Data will only be shared and used within the bounds of the law.
- In certain circumstances, We may be legally required to share certain data held by Us, which may include your personal data, for example, where We are involved in legal proceedings, where We are complying with legal requirements, a court order, or a governmental authority.
- What Happens If Our Business Changes Hands?
- We may, from time to time, expand or reduce Our business and this may involve the sale and/or the transfer of control of all or part of Our business. Any personal data that you have provided will, where it is relevant to any part of Our business that is being transferred, be transferred along with that part and the new owner or newly controlling party will, under the terms of this Privacy Policy, be permitted to use that data only for the same purposes for which it was originally collected by Us.
- How Can You Control Your Data?
- In addition to your rights under the GDPR, set out in section 4, we aim to give you strong controls on Our use of your data for direct marketing purposes including the ability to opt-out of receiving emails from Us which you may do by unsubscribing using the links provided in Our emails.
- Your Right to Withhold Information
- You may access certain areas of Our Site without providing any data at all. However, to use all features and functions available on Our Site you may be required to submit or allow for the collection of certain data.
- You may restrict Our use of Cookies. For more information, see section 13.
- How Can You Access Your Data?
You have the right to ask for a copy of any of your personal data held by Us (where such data is held). Under the GDPR, no fee is payable and We will provide any and all information in response to your request free of charge. Please contact Us for more details at info@property118.com, or using the contact details below in section 14.
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- Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time (for example, if the law changes). Any changes will be immediately posted on Our Site and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of Our Site following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date.
CMS
11:56 AM, 20th May 2022, About 2 years ago
The issue you have is that the freehold is only worth a nominal amount once the long leases are granted which presumably will not be until after the company has taken the freehold in which case SDLT may be payable.
The alternative way of doing this is as follows:
1. Assuming that Husband (H)and Wife (W) own the freehold now;
2. H&W grant a lease to W of one flat;
3. H&W grant a lease to W of second flat;
4. H&W grant a lease to H of third flat;
5. H&W grant a lease to H of fourth flat.
SDLT is payable on the transfer of beneficial interests so at the same time as completing the leases you should enter into deeds of trust stating that the properties are held in the same proportions as before the leases were granted.
Then the freehold is subject to the leases and will be worth a nominal amount so can be trasefrred to a company.
Hope this helps but if you want to talk about this send me your email please. Charles
CMS
12:19 PM, 20th May 2022, About 2 years ago
Reply to the comment left by charles stevens at 20/05/2022 - 11:56
Sorry i should also have added that holding the leases on trust for someone else (even including yourself) is effectively a breach of the mortgage conditions and although i am condoning it you wouldnt be the first person to do this.
Also, please dont think my proposal means that its going to take any longer because the whole process of (a) granting the leases; (b) transferring the freehold; and if you want (c) assigning the leases back into you and your wifes name; subject to the finance being ready, all of that can be done on the same day with decent planning. Charles
Stuart L
19:17 PM, 20th May 2022, About 2 years ago
In response to the suggestion by Charles, as I understand it, you cannot grant yourself a lease.
CMS
19:23 PM, 20th May 2022, About 2 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Stu Lu at 20/05/2022 - 19:17
in response to Stu Lu, you cannot grant the same individuals/company. entity etc a lease over the same property as it merges with the freehold however that is not what is happening in my suggestion as in each example it is the husband and wife granting a lease of a flat to one of them. The fact that the leaseholder is one half of the freeholder is neither here nor there as the interests would not merge.
I have done this 30-40 times i guess. It definitely worked on those occasions. Best, Charles
Overworked
14:28 PM, 24th May 2022, About 2 years ago
Hi Charles and thank you for your suggestion.
I understand that this type of arrangement is called a 'criss-cross' or 'Tyneside' agreement whereby the freehold (owned by H & W) is subject to the new lease granted to H (flat 1) and W (flat 2). I have done this once before when a mortgagee wasn't involved and there wasn't a liability for SDLT or CGT so I think you are correct in your recommendations.
'The owner of the First Floor Flat (FFF) will own both the leasehold title to their flat but also the freehold title to the Ground Floor Flat (GFF) and vice versa.'
This solution would I think work for us but would then involve two separate applications because the new leases would be in either H or W's name as opposed to jointly owned.
Do you think there is a way to end up with leases in joint names (or theoretically everything in one name) so that the new borrowing is simplified. The lender has said that if the properties are owned jointly then it would be one application and one loan for everything. This would again reduce the setup costs when remortgaging.
There is one other complication (and it was going so well!) but I'll divulge that later as it may be resolved by any response to the last questions.
Overworked
14:50 PM, 24th May 2022, About 2 years ago
I've just heard back from a broker who says the 'Tyneside' restructuring would limit the lenders who would deal with us and potentially attract the higher rates again.
Would the following cause problems:
1.Transfer the freehold in to Ltd company
2. Ltd company issues leases to H and/or W
Would this approach attract SDLT even though the freehold would be worth 'nothing' and ultimately the new leases would be worth the same of the old freehold
CMS
3:29 AM, 27th May 2022, About 2 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Ian McDermott at 24/05/2022 - 14:28
Hi Ian, so sorry for my delayed response but I have only just seen this. Yes i do think that there is a way but it's a paper exercise more than anything else. In brief it would work like this and all happen on the same day immediately after each other:
a) H&W own 4 flats.
b) H&W grant 2 leases to H out of the freehold and 2 leases to W out of the freehold;
c) At the same time as b) above whomever holds the leases enters into declarations of trust confirming held 50/50 so no CGT;
d) The holders of the lease then transfer the leases back into joint names and confirm in the transfers that there is no intention to merge the leases with the freehold.
The one 'legal' issue is that, if you have a mortgage on the existing property, granting the leases is a breach of that mortgage, however, as you will be paying it off immediately after granting the leases this is normally not considered an issue by lawyers so far as i am aware.
CMS
3:32 AM, 27th May 2022, About 2 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Ian McDermott at 24/05/2022 - 14:50
I have never heard it called a 'Tyneside' and am not sure why it should cause an issue. All you are doing is taking a new lease that's all the broker needs to be aware of to be honest. I wouldn't think that they need to know the rest. I would just say that 'we are taking brand new leases of all 4 properties and see if they will value them on that basis'. If you get nowhere with this let me know as i know a broker i can explain this to and i am sure he will help. Let me have your email if you want me to contact you.
CMS
3:51 AM, 27th May 2022, About 2 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Ian McDermott at 24/05/2022 - 14:50
Ok, i will give you a detailed answer on this (apologies if its a bit of a lesson) and sorry if you already know all of this but it might help you now and in the future. (PS just go straight to the bottom if you are bored as i have a potential solution for you).
When looking at something like this you need to consider who has the benefit of the actual 'value' of the property and whether this is actually moving.
On day one the house is worth say £250k. On day two you want to transfer the freehold to a company. Is there any value passing? Yes there is as the property worth £250k is passing to the Company and as they are linked to you SDLT would be charged on market value and possible CGT (not an expert in that).
With my example of granting long leases before transferring to the Company you are effectively reducing the value of the property being transferred to the company as, by the time it is transferred to the Company, its subject to 4 leases.
Having gone through that, here is a potential solution but (a) frankly it amounts to exactly the same as my suggestion of H&W leasing to H or W etc but banks don't care about what actually legally works tbh and (b) you will again need to do this all on the same day.
(a) you set up a Company;
(b) H&W enter into a declaration of trust with the Company whereby the Company accept to take the property on trust for H&W in the existing shares. No beneficial title transfer so no CGT;
(c) H&W instruct Company to grant the 4 leases;
(d) H&W pay off mortgage;
(e) H&W transfer the beneficial title in the freehold of the property to the Company.
Result is:
Company own freehold;
H&W end up with 4 leases.
Transfer of the freehold to the Company will not attract SDLT as the value will be nominal and the CGT will likely be below your given annual thresholds (depends on other transactions during the year of course).
How does that sit with you Ian? If you don't mind me asking - have you got a solicitor to deal with this? If not, do you want me to deal with this for you? i don't mind if you do have a solicitor and want to give them the above solution (happy to help) but if you need anything more then send me your email on here and i will contact you. I can either act for you or if your solicitor doesnt mind i can simply oversee the transaction to make sure its right and works.
I hope all this helps and again sorry for the delay in responding. Best, Charles
Overworked
9:28 AM, 6th June 2022, About 2 years ago
Hi Charles and sorry for the delay in response to your question.
I have approached a couple of solicitors. One is the the Father in laws old firm (now retired from) as they created a criss-cross having finished converting a property and also another firm who have done some work for me in the past. I've forwarded them your comments but have not heard back from either yet so I'll keep you posted.
The only last issue I think is a property registered in my name only. Do you think there is a way to create leases for this, put it in to joint names so that all are set up in the same ownership as the others going forward?
My email is ian@gblettings.co.uk and happy to talk to you direct.
Thanks, Ian