Latest Property Advice

• Squatting is to be a crime: Police will be able to turf out intruders
  

  Published 18th Mar 2011

  The era of squatters’ rights is to end, the Daily Mail can reveal

• Professional agencies marketing empty homes to potential SQUATTERS (and they'll even help you break in for a fee!)
  

  Published 05th Mar 2011

  The advert wouldn’t look out of place in any estate agent’s window: ‘Ground floor Victorian flat

• How the mortgage crisis is allowing landlords to push up rental rates
  

  Published 04th Mar 2011

  Cash-strapped adults who can't afford to get on the property ladder are being hit by rapidly rising rents, research has shown

• Huge banking fees for those forced to let homes
  

  Published 02nd Mar 2011

  Homeowners who are forced to let their properties are being hit with huge fees by greedy banks

• Wealthy buyers exploit stamp duty loophole
  

  Published 01st Mar 2011

  Buyers of some of Britain's most expensive homes may avoid paying the new 5% rate of stamp duty on £1m-plus properties thanks to a tax loophole allowing houses and flats to be registered in the names of companies rather than individuals

• 5% Stamp Duty to cost prime buyers an extra £17,000 on average
  

  Published 01st Mar 2011

  The UK's prime house buyers will have to pay an extra £17,112 in Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) when rates increase from 4% to 5% for properties over £1m in April

• Woman on benefits owing £3,500 rent can't be evicted: New European human rights ruling could lead to thousands of tenants refusing to pay
  

  Published 24th Feb 2011

  Evicting a woman from her council home for failing to pay rent would breach her human rights, judges ruled yesterday