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Death Duties Are BACK!
1st August 2003
Remember Death Duties well they are back in the guise of Inheritance Tax (IHT) but they don’t just affect the wealthy. Actually they never went away but what has happened is that like Stamp Duty the threshold from which the tax becomes payable has in real terms dropped and not risen in line with the increase in property prices. Read more...
£1000 up Front to Sell Your Home!
1st July 2003
HOMEOWNERS will have to spend up to £1,000 creating a seller's pack 'logbook' for their house before putting it on the market under plans recently unveiled. Read more...
House Prices Set to Increase BY 10% This YEAR!
1st June 2003
Recent comments by what is held to be the authoritative source on property indicates that house prices look set to increase by 10% this year despite evidence that the market is slowing down. Read more...
Farming and Agricultural Finance LTD
22nd May 2003
McCartneys are agents for FAF and can offer very competitive Agricultural mortgages for all purposes, including finance for allied industries and diversification. Read more...
New Homes Have Shrunk BY a Third Since the 1920s
1st May 2003
The size of the average new house has shrunk by about a third in the past 80 years with the traditional high ceilings and spacious rooms making way for more compact homes crammed onto tiny plots of land - or so a survey recently revealed. Read more...
You Build up & out but WHY Not Down?
1st April 2003
If you move more than 3 times in Norway the general consensus is that you have been divorced once and accidentally burnt the house down on the other occasion!
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A Killer Lurking in Your HOME?
1st March 2003
Little do we realise the devastating effect asbestos has on human health. It is now the greatest single cause of work related deaths in the U.K.
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Do’s and Don’ts when Moving House.
1st February 2003
Remember the Enid Blyton character Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby whose motto was “Do unto others as you would wish them to do unto you”. Well in moving house there are certain niceties that you should adhere to. Read more...
Forecasts of a Dramatic Downturn in Property Prices?
1st January 2003
My December article stating that it was my view that house prices in this area would see a small increase in the forthcoming year flies in the face of all “authoritative” forecasts. Some of these forecasts indicate a dramatic downturn in the property market, which will result in negative equity – a byword for the early 1990’s.
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Vat on Property Purchases?
1st December 2002
I read somewhere that Chancellor Gordon Brown has refused to rule out the possibility of imposing VAT on property purchases which could mean property-purchasers having to pay thousands of pounds extra in tax.
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