Category: Property Market News
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Great Reasons To Put Your Home On The Market in January
Read the article: Great Reasons To Put Your Home On The Market in JanuaryTake Advantage of our January Sale! We’re offering a fine package of New Year discounts and other offers to kick off 2015 with a bang, and shake off the winter blues! The package includes a FREE Booster Pack (normally £240), a discount on your Home Report, and a FREE exterior photo re-shoot once the wintry…
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LBTT Rates Likely to be Changed
Read the article: LBTT Rates Likely to be ChangedNote that the Scottish Government announced new rates of Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) on 21 January 2015. For the most up-to-date position, as of 23 January 2015, please look at: http://www.mov8realestate.com/2015/01/changes-lbtt-rates-april/ As if there hasn’t been enough confusion about old Stamp Duty, new Stamp Duty (an overnight change), LBTT replacing new Stamp Duty…
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Scottish Conservatives propose Stamp Duty / LBTT rates cut
Read the article: Scottish Conservatives propose Stamp Duty / LBTT rates cutNote that the Scottish Government announced new rates of Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) on 21 January 2015. For the most up-to-date position, as of 23 January 2015, please look at: http://www.mov8realestate.com/2015/01/changes-lbtt-rates-april/ Within weeks of the UK Government’s changes to Stamp Duty, and with less than three months to go before Stamp Duty Land…
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2014 Review of the Year – Scottish Property Market
Read the article: 2014 Review of the Year – Scottish Property Market2014 has been quite an eventful year for the Scottish property market! A September referendum on whether or not Scotland should become independent, final details of a new property tax to replace Stamp Duty in Scotland from 1 April 2015, a shock announcement about changes to Stamp Duty in the UK effective from December 2014,…
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Predictions for the Scottish Property Market 2015
Read the article: Predictions for the Scottish Property Market 2015What does 2015 have in store for the Scottish property market? For our predictions for the Scottish Property Market in 2015, read on… The most significant event (that we know of so far) will be the replacement of Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) on 1 April with Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT). For a…
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How Do Stamp Duty Changes Affect Properties on the Market?
Read the article: How Do Stamp Duty Changes Affect Properties on the Market?If your property is already on the market, you have probably heard in the Press in the past few days about significant changes that have happened, literally overnight, to the Stamp Duty regime. So, if you’re already on the market, what are the changes and how might they affect your sale? In Summary From 1…
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Christmas Cancelled for Property Solicitors and Estate Agents
Read the article: Christmas Cancelled for Property Solicitors and Estate AgentsIt’s official…if you’re an estate agent in Scotland this year, Christmas is cancelled. And it’s George Osborne’s fault. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, at times not the most popular man in Scotland anyway, has effectively cancelled Christmas holidays for every estate agent and property solicitor in Scotland in 2014 by announcing a reform of Stamp Duty that…
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A Guide to Stamp Duty (SDLT) Changes and LBTT
Read the article: A Guide to Stamp Duty (SDLT) Changes and LBTTThe UK government, on 3 December 2014, announced a radical overhaul of the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT or Stamp Duty) system in its Autumn Statement. It comes into force on 4 December 2014. In Scotland, it will then be replaced by LBTT (Land and Buildings Transaction Tax) for Scottish property transactions completing after 1 April…
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What does the Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 mean for property buyers and sellers in Scotland?
Read the article: What does the Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 mean for property buyers and sellers in Scotland?On 8 December 2014 the legal process by which we buy and sell property in Scotland will be shaken-up by the coming-into force of the Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (after this, ‘the Act’). Conveyancing is seen as a bit of a stuffy, old-fashioned process, so a shake-up is surely a good thing, isn’t…
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