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How to sell a home: Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), using estate agents, finding a legal professional, getting offers, transferring ownership and making complaints.
Selling a home takes about 5 months on average. The process can take…
If you have a mortgage on the property you’re selling, you’ll need to move…
An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) tells you how energy efficient a…
You can sell your home yourself or use an online, high street or hybrid…
A legal professional can handle the legal work involved in transferring…
Choosing a buyer Buyers can make offers verbally (over the phone or in…
After you’ve accepted an offer, you’re responsible for drawing up a legal…
You can contact a legal professional if you need help selling a property…
You can make a complaint to a company involved in the sale if you’re…
What to do if you think you've spotted a scam pretending to be from Companies House, and examples of scam emails, letters and telephone calls.
Check a list of recent emails from HMRC to help you decide if the email you've received is a scam.
Find out if you’re an estate agency business who needs to register with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
What happens if someone makes a money claim against you, saying you owe them money, and how you can respond or defend yourself
Rules employers must follow when making staff redundant - consultations, notice periods, compulsory and non-compulsory redundancy and redundancy pay
How to offer work to people arriving in the UK from Ukraine.
Check a list of recent text messages from HMRC to help you decide if a text you've received is a scam.
Complain about Green Deal assessors, providers or installers - before or after getting a Green Deal, Energy Saving Advice Service, Home Energy Scotland
Green Deal home and business energy-saving improvements - assessments, repayments, Home Improvement Fund scheme
Find out what checks you should complete and how to report potential fraud if you’re an agency, employer or worker.
New figures show DWP’s flagship jobs support programme for young people has now been taken up over a million times, as the Government continues its drive to get people working and grow the economy.
Find out about buying a home through shared ownership. Read about who can apply, costs, paying rent, buying more shares and repairing and selling your home.
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