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The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.

• Updated: 18 September 2024

How to apply for a full or partial completion certificate after building work on a higher-risk building has been completed.

• Updated: 27 March 2025

How to sell a home: Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), using estate agents, finding a legal professional, getting offers, transferring ownership and making complaints.

• Overview

  Selling a home takes about 5 months on average. The process can take…

• Preparing to sell

  If you have a mortgage on the property you’re selling, you’ll need to move…

• Energy Performance Certificates

  An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) tells you how energy efficient a…

• Getting an estate agent

  You can sell your home yourself or use an online, high street or hybrid…

• Finding a solicitor or conveyancer

  A legal professional can handle the legal work involved in transferring…

• Offers and negotiations

  Choosing a buyer Buyers can make offers verbally (over the phone or in…

• Transferring ownership (conveyancing)

  After you’ve accepted an offer, you’re responsible for drawing up a legal…

• Selling a property for someone else

  You can contact a legal professional if you need help selling a property…

• Making a complaint

  You can make a complaint to a company involved in the sale if you’re…

The laws on selling, buying and carrying a knife or weapon depend on the type of knife or weapon, your age and your circumstances.

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

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

How suppliers from industry and academia can work with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).

• Updated: 26 January 2026

Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.

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.

If you already have the right or have probate (as an executor or administrator) you can start dealing with the estate. You may need to apply for the right to deal with the estate of the person who's died (also...