Estate agents are being urged to adopt a personal safety code in a campaign launched 30 years after Suzy Lamplugh disappeared after meeting a man to view a house in London. She was just 25 years old when she went missing at a time when there were no mobile phones with the only clue left […] The post Personal safety code for estate agents launched 30 years after Suzy disappeared appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading
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One in four sales in UK was a buy to let or second home in third quarter of 2016
One in four properties bought in the UK in the third quarter of 2016 was a buy to let or a second home, new figures from the tax department show. The introduction of an extra 3% stamp duty charge on additional home in April of this year has enabled figures to be published for the […] The post One in four sales in UK was a buy to let or second home in third quarter of 2016 appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →
Tax office figures show substantial falls in UK property sales
Sales of property in the UK have fallen considerably year on year, down 11.3% in September, and fell by 4.3% month on month, official data shows. The data from HMRC, the tax office, shows that there were 93,130 residential property transactions during the month of September and separate figures from HMRC show the amount of […] The post Tax office figures show substantial falls in UK property sales appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →