Latest Property Advice

• The VAT trap: Two people created new homes in the same village, but only one received a big tax bill...
  

  Published 17th Apr 2009

  Both have built new homes over the past year, and they live only a few hundred yards from each other in an Oxfordshire village

• Cash buyers won’t sustain commercial market for ever
  

  Published 16th Apr 2009

  Real estate investors should keep the champagne on ice in spite of rising hopes that the bottom of the commercial property market has been reached

• Land Registry hits buyers in the pocket with 30% fee hike
  

  Published 15th Apr 2009

  The Land Registry has responded to the property slump with an inflation-busting 30% increase in its charges

• Consumers no better off after bank rate cuts
  

  Published 13th Apr 2009

  Savers and borrowers have lost out, says financial-data firm Moneyfacts, so what are the best mortgage deals and accounts

• Mortgage rates fall to five-and-a-half year low
  

  Published 10th Apr 2009

  The interest rates on Britain's most popular mortgage deals have fallen to the lowest point in five-and-a-half years, revealing that the Bank of England's six successive interest rate cuts are making an impact on the housing market

• Taxing times in Malta
  

  Published 06th Apr 2009

  The Maltese Government has launched a new redemption scheme for property that is leased from the Government - which could means that homeowners stand to lose up to 25 per cent of the property's value as they have been prevented from applying for the ground rent redemption scheme for four years..

• Tax rebates are available on homes in Spain
  

  Published 02nd Apr 2009

  Up to 10,000 Britons with homes in the sun could be entitled to reclaim more than £140m in overpaid capital gains tax (CGT) following a landmark court ruling