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Your purchasing strategy must show you’ve considered commercial and technology aspects, and contractual limitations.
How to buy a home: preparing to buy, deciding on a home, making offers, conveyancing, paying Stamp Duty Land Tax and making complaints.
Buying a home takes about 5 months on average. The process can take longer…
When you decide you want to buy a home, you may need to get a mortgage to…
There are different ways to own a property. Leasehold and freehold…
Before you make an offer, check: what the property is worth the number of…
Once the offer is accepted, the seller is responsible for drawing up a…
You may need to pay: Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) when you buy a home in…
You can make a complaint to a company involved in the sale if you’re…
Guidance for buyers and suppliers of cloud technology, digital outcomes, digital specialists, user research participants and labs.
Buy your housing association home - including how to apply, who is eligible, discounts available and where to get help and advice.
How to find digital outcome, specialist and user research services on the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework.
If you import into or export from Northern Ireland you can get a decision on the origin of your goods.
How consumers can reduce their energy costs by getting a group deal
Manage the finances or property of a missing person, someone kidnapped or taken hostage, or in a foreign prison and not able to communicate. Apply to the High Court to be a guardian. You'll need a guardianship order.
Information on legal requirements and advice for British nationals buying property in France.
Guidance explaining why compulsory purchase orders are made, and what people's rights are to challenge them.
Your right to buy your council home - including how to apply, who is eligible, discounts available and where to get help and advice.
How to avoid bias when buying services.
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.
When to exclude and include the buying commission in the customs value and account for import VAT if you’re an importer paying fees to your buying agent.
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 set what you’ll evaluate digital outcomes, digital specialists, user research participants and studio suppliers on.
Information on how the CMA investigated the merger, and how you can find out more.
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