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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 when selling a vehicle: your vehicle log book (V5C), submitting the right information to DVLA, private (personalised) registration numbers.
A guide to selling a home in England and Wales.
How suppliers from industry and academia can work with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).
Get a customs declaration form to take goods with you to sell outside the EU
What you must do when you sell your company, partnership or sole trader business
Rules for online and distance selling for businesses
Capital Gains Tax if you're a non-resident selling a UK home: when you get a tax relief called Private Residence Relief, how to tell HMRC you've sold the property, how to work out your gain
Working out and paying Capital Gains Tax (CGT) if you sell shares, claiming tax relief
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
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