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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
This guide is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg). You must decide which…
You can find out what type of joint ownership you have by checking…
This is called ‘severance of joint tenancy’. You should apply for a ‘Form…
You need the agreement of all the other joint owners to change from being…
You must apply to the Court of Protection if all of the following apply:…
Park (mobile) home owner rights and responsibilities - fees and repairs, selling or giving away a home and residents' associations, settling disputes
Your rights and obligations are listed in a written agreement with the…
You have a rent contract if you pay rent to a landlord. It does not have…
Pitch fee You have to pay a ‘pitch fee’ to the park owner to rent the land…
Selling The park owner gets up to 10% of the selling price (known as a…
Park owners are responsible for: keeping common areas (like shared paths)…
You can set up a ‘qualifying’ residents’ association to represent home…
If you have a dispute with the park owner that you cannot work out, you…
Buy your rented home through the Right to Shared Ownership scheme: who can apply, how to apply, costs, paying rent, buying more shares, repairing and selling your home.
The Right to Shared Ownership scheme allows some tenants in England to buy…
You may be eligible to buy a share of your rented home through the Right…
When you apply for Right to Shared Ownership, you’ll need to make sure you…
For a shared ownership home, you need to pay rent for the share you do not…
There are 9 steps to apply for Right to Shared Ownership. 1. Tell your…
You can buy more shares in your home after you become a shared owner. This…
You can sell your shared ownership home at any time. If you own a 100%…
When you buy a home with Right to Shared Ownership, your lease will have…
You’ll usually need to get the landlord’s permission to rent out (sublet)…
You can get free advice about how to buy a home through the Right to…
Find out if Inheritance Tax is due on assets transferred in or out of a trust and on certain trusts at each 10 year anniversary.
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.
Apply to settle in the UK if your partner dies and you're in the UK as their dependant or partner
Guidance about compensation to owners and occupiers of residential properties once a compulsory purchase order comes into force.
Ownership of copyright works may depend on the circumstances under which the work was created.
Apply for indefinite leave to remain ('settlement') if you have a business, investor or talent visa - fees, who's eligible, how to apply.
Guidance about compensation to owners and occupiers of agricultural premises once a compulsory purchase order comes into force.
This guidance sets out further information about what you, the leaseholder, do and do not have to pay for remediating a building safety defect via your service charge.
Find out if you have to pay Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) on transfers of land or property depending on type of transfer, your marital status and other factors.
Wreck and salvage laws, the role of the Receiver of the Wreck, wreck owners and salvors and how to report wreck material.
The Valuation Office Agency's (VOA) technical manual relating to Inheritance Tax.
Leasehold property - leasehold disputes, buying the freehold, service charges, lease extensions and Right to Manage
How to sell a home: Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), using estate agents, finding a legal professional, getting offers, transferring ownership and making complaints.
How you can add, remove or replace one or more homeowners, with a process known as a Transfer of Equity.
Protect your right to live in a registered or unregistered property owned by your spouse or civil partner during a divorce or separation - getting home rights, after a continuation order
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