Most people are aware of the need to pay stamp duty land tax (SDLT) when buying a house for a high enough purchase price.
With its myriad of rules (additional property surcharge, non-resident surcharge, flat rates for companies), SDLT has become increasingly complicated, however one group who rarely have to consider the Byzantine depths of the Finance Act 2003 are private renters. But is this something they should be thinking about?
Setting up and running your own business is an amazing achievement. It requires vision, creativity, motivation and stamina.
The Government has responded to mounting pressure to address the adverse impact of short-term rentals.
Over the years the significant increase in short-term lets and second homes have seen local authorities complaining about anti-social behaviour from “party” lets, local residents in holiday hot spots being priced out of the local housing market and hotel operators struggling in an already difficult market. The counter argument is that short-term rentals play an important role in the country’s tourism economy.
Private Client Partner, James Brockhurst, was invited to join an expert panel session on digital assets at the Spear’s 500 Live Conference 2023.
In the session ‘After FTX: What’s next for digital assets?’, James joined Anatoly Crachilov, CEO and founding partner of Nickel Digital Asset Management; Richard Shade, COO of Archax and Chris Cox, VP of GSR Capital, to discuss how high net worths and family offices should approach these assets in 2023 and beyond.
Setting up and running your own business is an amazing achievement. It requires vision, creativity, motivation and stamina.
The battle over development in the greenbelt continues to rage with the Prime Minister restating the Tory party pledge to protect the greenbelt following Kier Starmer’s comment that it should be built on “where appropriate”.
On Tuesday 9 May, LD Events organised an in-depth review of the current student housing market with panel discussions from a wide range of industry experts.
Here are my five takeaway points from the Conference:
There was some cautiously welcomed news in the Chancellor’s 2023 Spring Budget for those in the agricultural sector with the announcement of a wide ranging consultation on tax in the context of rural land.
Structures crave stability. You wouldn’t choose to build in an earthquake zone. If you had no choice but to do so, you would ensure your structure had sufficient flexibility to withstand a powerful shock.
Divorce is a major source of instability for a family wealth-holding structure because it exposes the structure to scrutiny by a powerful and potentially hostile external body – the family court.
On Tuesday 18 April 2023, Commercial Real Estate Senior Associates Daniel Steele and Paul Grayson attended the BISNOW seminar on The UK’s Industrial and Logistics Transformation at the Royal College of General Practitioners.
The seminar focused on two key themes:
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