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How to sell a home: Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), using estate agents, finding a legal professional, getting offers, transferring ownership and making complaints.
Selling a home takes about 5 months on average. The process can take…
If you have a mortgage on the property you’re selling, you’ll need to move…
An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) tells you how energy efficient a…
You can sell your home yourself or use an online, high street or hybrid…
A legal professional can handle the legal work involved in transferring…
Choosing a buyer Buyers can make offers verbally (over the phone or in…
After you’ve accepted an offer, you’re responsible for drawing up a legal…
You can contact a legal professional if you need help selling a property…
You can make a complaint to a company involved in the sale if you’re…
Buy your housing association home - including how to apply, who is eligible, discounts available and where to get help and advice.
You might be able to buy your rented housing association home at a…
You can get a discount of between £9,000 and £16,000 on the price of your…
Fill in the Right to Acquire application form. Send it to your landlord.…
If your landlord agrees to sell, their offer will tell you: the price they…
If you sell your home within 10 years of buying it through Right to…
Ask your landlord about Right to Acquire. They may also be able to help…
Apply for compensation if you own property near the proposed High Speed 2 route, Phase 1 or 2 - what you can claim for, eligibility, how to apply
You may be able to sell your property to the government at its market…
You can sell your property to the government through the Express Purchase…
The Exceptional Hardship Scheme has now closed. If you’ve already applied…
You may be able to sell your property to the government through the Need…
You may be able to apply for a Cash Offer if you do not want to sell your…
You may be eligible for a payment if you live in the homeowner payment…
If you’re selling your property to the government under one of the schemes…
How to sell biodiversity units to developers for biodiversity net gain: explore the market, register a gain site and record allocations.
Investors and businesses may be legally required to tell the government about certain sensitive acquisitions under the National Security and Investment Act.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Guide for overseas investors on how to access NHS procurement channels.
Tax and reporting rules for assets bought, sold or given
What you must do when you sell your company, partnership or sole trader business
How to work out your taxable capital gain or loss if you are not resident in the UK and are making direct or indirect disposals of UK property or land.
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