Multiple dwelling relief under the new SDLT regime
A number of our clients have asked us about how multiple dwelling relief operates under the new SDLT regime. For a number of years now, the purchaser of multiple dwellings has been able to potentially benefit from a reduced rate of Stamp Duty Land Tax. If someone was buying four flats in a building at […]
STOP PRESS: Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) Rates alter
STOP PRESS: Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) Rates alter The Government in their Autumn Statement have announced increases in Stamp Duty Land Tax rates. After midnight on 3 December 2014 you will pay more in Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) for residential properties costing in excess of £937,500. SDLT rates increase from midnight […]
CGT for Overseas Investors
The government’s announcement in the 2013 Autumn Statement is now nearly 12 months old, and yet there is a lot still not known about the detail of how overseas investors will be charged for the gain arising from their property disposals after 6 April 2015. We have received a number of enquiries from our overseas […]
Life As A Trainee Solicitor
If someone had said to me three years ago that I would have been starting my training contract at a law firm who specialise in residential conveyancing and commercial property I would have laughed. Although the laugh would have been with the best intentions it would nevertheless have been audible around most of SW19. To […]
Ashworths Solicitors are proud to be a headline sponsor of the Comedy on Wimbledon Common event
Ashworths Solicitors are proud to be a headline sponsor of the Comedy on Wimbledon Common event on 11 October which forms part of the increasing successful Wimbledon BookFest fortnight. Established in 2006, Wimbledon BookFest is a community-driven charity which strives to bring literature to the heart of the community and the community to the heart […]
Britain’s popular streets fight ‘forests’ of estate agent boards
Councils are using special legal powers to ban the use of the signs in some of the country’s most popular areas. Homeowners in some of Britain’s most desirable areas will no longer have to suffer “forests” of estate agent boards “disfiguring” their streets as councils use special legal powers to ban the signs. Councils across […]
Offices To Residential – Article 4 Direction
Certain types of extensions to buildings and changes of use of buildings do not require full planning permission from the council. These forms of development are called permitted development. The Planning Portal provides a useful summary of the permitted development and provides links to the legislation which need to be referred to. It also sets out the […]
Property news roundup: Why do so many home sales fall through?
A ‘fall through index’ for March suggests that over a quarter of home sales fail to complete, a 63 per cent increase compared with March 2013. Donna Houguez, Market Analyst at Quick Move Now, which released the data, said: “It isn’t surprising that as buyers are rushing to make purchases before prices increase further, a […]
Private Roads
My solicitor has advised me that the development site that I am trying to buy is situated on a private road. What implications does this have for my development? More often than not, the roads that we drive up and down and the footpaths that we walk upon are “highways maintainable at public expense”. A […]
Judicial Review
I am entering into a contract conditional on a satisfactory planning consent being granted. My solicitor tells me that it is important to allow for a “judicial review” period. Is this essential? Most developers are aware of the fact that following the grant of planning there is a “Judicial Review Period” where, in most conditional […]