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Sign up to HM Land Registry's free Property Alert service to help protect your property from fraud.

• Updated: 19 October 2016

Leasehold property - leasehold disputes, buying the freehold, service charges, lease extensions and Right to Manage

• Overview

  You only own a leasehold property for a fixed period of time. You’ll have…

• Leaseholder rights and responsibilities

  Your responsibilities Your lease will tell you what conditions you’ve…

• Service charges and other expenses

  Service charges Your lease sets out the way the service charge is…

• Extending, changing or ending a lease

  Extending the lease You can ask the landlord to extend your lease at any…

• Buying the freehold

  You can ask the landlord to sell you the freehold at any time. There are…

• Right to Manage and management disputes

  You may be able to change the management of your building if you’re…

• Leasehold disputes

  There is a different dispute process in Wales. You might be able to…

About your property boundaries, working out your boundary lines, boundaries and neighbour disputes, agreeing who's responsible for walls and fences

• Overview

  If you live in England or Wales, there’s usually no record of: the exact…

• Make a boundary agreement with your neighbour

  You can usually avoid having to create a boundary agreement by having an…

• Apply to record the exact boundary

  You can apply to have the exact boundary between your property and your…

• Correct a boundary mistake on a title plan

  Write to HM Land Registry (HMLR) if you think there’s a boundary mistake…

Guidance from the British Embassy on buying, renting or letting property in the United Arab Emirates.

• Updated: 26 January 2020

Find government-owned property, buildings or land that's available to rent or buy, or contest its use

Find out property price trends in the UK from the house price index

How the Valuation Office Agency calculates your rateable value for business rates.

• Updated: 10 February 2023

The sale of land is determined by the potential number of homes that a housing developer or registered provider can build on a given site.

• Updated: 6 September 2021

Apply to the tribunal about a rent increase decision, changes to a lease or a decision about a council house, park home or caravan, in England.

The Government Property Agency is helping transform the way the Civil Service works and reshaping the relationship civil servants have with their place of work. GPA is an executive agency, sponsored by the Cabinet Office .

• Updated: 3 August 2023

If someone dies without a will or known family, their ownerless property (bona vacantia) goes to the crown - check if you're an entitled relative, search for an estate, refer or claim on an estate

Park (mobile) home owner rights and responsibilities - fees and repairs, selling or giving away a home and residents' associations, settling disputes

The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) explains how domestic properties are valued for Council Tax bands.

• Updated: 5 February 2024

Check if you're a joint tenant or tenants in common. Change from joint tenants to tenants in common, or tenants in common to joint tenants

Registering land or property in England - first time registration, transfer of ownership, changing your details on the register, where to register in Scotland or Northern Ireland

How to protect your home, land or other property from fraud

Find a property and get its title plan, title register and see who owns it

Capital Gains Tax when you sell a property that's not your home: work out your gain and pay your tax on buy-to-let, business, agricultural and inherited properties

How to work out your taxable capital gain or loss if you are not resident in the UK and are making direct or indirect disposals of UK property or land.

• Updated: 27 October 2021

Find out how much a property sold for in England or Wales