Money, Tax and Legal
Below are our 7 articles in the 'money, tax and legal' category:

If an investment property is let out, certain expenses and tax allowances can be deducted from the rental income to calculate the taxable profit or loss. When an investor has several UK residential ...

Love them or loathe them, Home Information Packs (HIPs) are now part and parcel of the property market in England and Wales. The Government's aim when it introduced HIPs was to make the process of ...

Traditional home insurance does not provide cover if a property is used to earn an income, so landlord insurance - sometimes called buy-to-let insurance - is needed to protect the investment. There ...

The tax liabilities on investment properties vary and depend on the value of the property purchased and whether it is sold on or let out. Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) is the first consideration, ...

There is a common misconception that buy-to-let mortgages are prohibitively expensive and very restrictive. While there is no getting away from the fact that investment mortgages do cost more, the ...

Legal costs are unavoidable when purchasing property and can be considerable. The legal process of buying and selling a property is called conveyancing, and includes drawing up contracts, carrying ...

Buying a property is the biggest purchase most people make, yet remarkably only 20 per cent of home buyers in the UK commission a professional survey. Many believe the survey carried out by the ...