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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…
This guide sets out essential information for British nationals wanting to buy property in Egypt.
You must join a redress scheme if you operate as as a residential estate agent, letting agent or in property management.
Find out if you’re an estate agency business who needs to register with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
You must join a client money protection scheme if you're a property agent in the private rented sector in England and you hold clients' money.
Find out how tenants and letting agents in the UK pay tax on behalf of landlords abroad under the Non-resident Landlord (NRL) Scheme.
Find out more information on relocation expenses and benefits that qualify for exemption.
Find out how to ask for authorisation, manage your client's account and how to send returns as an agent.
You can manage your business rates yourself. You do not have to use an agent or ask someone to help you.
Authorise someone to deal with HMRC for you - how to appoint an agent, friend, relative or voluntary organisation
Advice for British people buying property in Turkey, including information on legal advice, fraud, residence requirements and more.
A Homes England series collecting key facts and figures on new homes and regeneration.
Register your client’s estate online if you’re a tax agent or adviser.
Sign in to your agent services account, copy across clients and authorise new ones.
Advice for British people buying property in Bulgaria, including information on legal advice, fraud, residence requirements and more.
Find out how to tell HMRC about a real estate election for land or buildings that are taxable for VAT purposes using form VAT1614E.
A list of some of the UK-regulated agents who have an agent assurance code and can complete verification checks on beneficial owners of an overseas entity.
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.
Buy your housing association home - including how to apply, who is eligible, discounts available and where to get help and advice.
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