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The laws on selling, buying and carrying a knife or weapon depend on the type of knife or weapon, your age and your circumstances.
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…
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.
Doorstep selling, regulations, written notice of the right to cancel, exemptions, penalties
How the First Homes scheme works, who is eligible, how to apply and the rules for managing a First Homes property after you buy one.
Investors and businesses may be legally required to tell the government about certain sensitive acquisitions under the National Security and Investment Act.
The process you need to follow to repay your Help to Buy: Equity Loan when you decide to sell your home.
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.
If you provide services to a seller or buyer in the UK, find out about the auctioneers' VAT margin scheme and how to account for VAT (VAT notice 718/2).
Relief from Capital Gains Tax (CGT) when you sell your home - Private Residence Relief, time away from your home, what to do if you have 2 homes, nominating a home, Letting Relief
How to buy a home: preparing to buy, deciding on a home, making offers, conveyancing, paying Stamp Duty Land Tax and making complaints.
Guide for overseas investors on how to access NHS procurement channels.
How to use Method 1 to work out the customs value of your imported goods if you're an importer or clearing agent.
If you buy or sell second-hand vehicles, find out how other products and circumstances affect the scheme and how you account for VAT. (VAT Notice 718)
Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
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.
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.
How to account for VAT on vehicles and fuel you use for your business.
Find out what the main Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) reliefs are for land or property transactions.
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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