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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
Register your client’s estate online if you’re a tax agent or adviser.
Make a 'Part I claim' when your property depreciates because of the use of a new or altered highway - eligibility and where to send your claim
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
After you have registered for the Valuation Office Agency's service, you’ll need to claim a property before you can submit a check or challenge.
The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) asks for rental and lease information to assess the rateable value of non-domestic properties.
Advice for British people buying property in Bulgaria, including information on legal advice, fraud, residence requirements and more.
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
Advice for British people buying property in Turkey, including information on legal advice, fraud, residence requirements and more.
Information on legal requirements and advice for British nationals buying or renting property in Spain.
Manage the finances or property of a missing person, someone kidnapped or taken hostage, or in a foreign prison and not able to communicate. Apply to the High Court to be a guardian. You'll need a guardianship order.
How to protect your home, land or other property from fraud
Leasehold property - leasehold disputes, buying the freehold, service charges, lease extensions and Right to Manage
Ask for underused or vacant property owned by the government, agencies, local councils or local public bodies to be sold - Right to Contest.
You can use the Right to Contest application to challenge government to sell land or property if you believe it’s not needed and could be put to better economic use.
About your property boundaries, working out your boundary lines, boundaries and neighbour disputes, agreeing who's responsible for walls and fences
The Office of Government Property, within the Cabinet Office, has appointed Saurabh Bhandari to lead major property programmes to support creating the sustainable and high-quality estate needed for modern government.
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.
What happens when you opt to tax (charge VAT on) land and buildings, when you need permission and when to notify HMRC about your decision.
We decide specialist business and other civil international dispute resolution and business cases in England and Wales, whether domestic or international. We cover disputes that are dealt with by: The Commercial Court (e.g. shipping, sale of goods, insurance and reinsurance...
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