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Top Tips For First Time Buyers in 2025

With stamp duty changes, interest rates fluctuating and property prices up and down it’s challenging for a first time buyer to navigate the market. While there are changes, it is possible to make a few right moves if you are buying a home in 2025. Here are five top tips...

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Renters rights

Renters Rights: What Every Landlord Needs To Know in 2025

The legal tension between landlords and tenants has long been a moot point. The challenge to balance the rights of each party has been a seesaw, sometimes leaning more in one side’s favour. The most recent attempt to achieve some equilibrium is the Renters Rights Bill. This is set to...

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landlords & Tenants

5 Ways We Are Supporting Landlords to Thrive in 2025

P.S Put Us On Speed Dial Being a landlord has a lot of perks. Whether you already have a portfolio or are looking to make your first purchase, the venture allows you to build passive income. Additionally, you enjoy the security of a ‘bricks and water investment’. This can provide...

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Property lawyers

Is 2025 A Good Year To Buy A Property?

To Buy Or Not To Buy Now we do not not have a crystal ball, (imagine the fun if we did). What we do have to answer this question is access to leading data, insights from property lawyers or experts and awareness of the legal changes that could affect the...

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Divorce lawyer

The Five Steps To Preparing For Divorce

It’s not a race, you set the pace.   Every couple’s divorce journey from choosing to separate to the final order is different, and that is very important to remember from the start. Whatever path your divorce takes, there are some clear stepping stones that can help you get prepared....

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What Next? The First 5 Questions To Ask Your Lawyer

Approaching divorce can be a whirlwind, from the difficult conversations, paperwork to living arrangements –  it’s hard to know where to start. Take a breath, you can approach the process one step at a time. Finding the right divorce lawyer to support you can make things a lot easier. They...

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Family Lawyer

Here Is How to Divorce Without Going To Court

If you are approaching the end of your marriage and are thinking about legally separating, it is likely an emotional and confusing time. Divorce can be a scary concept for many couples and is often associated with fighting, expense and a sense of failure. This does not have to be...

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SDLT UPDATE

Our conveyancing solicitors are dedicated to completing your transactions as quickly as possible before 31 March, 2025 (SDLT increase deadline). However, because of the involvement of multiple parties in your transactions that are beyond our control, we are unable to guarantee completion. Therefore, if completion does not take place by 31 March, 2025, we will not be responsible for any increase in SDLT payable. In the event that your matters are not completed before 1 April, 2025, please make sure you have sufficient funds to cover the additional SDLT.

Please note the following changes:

1. The threshold (being the amount of the purchase price that will be free from Stamp Duty) is currently £250,000. This will be reduced to £125,000.

2. The threshold for First-time Buyers Relief over which SDLT will be payable is currently £425,000. This will be reduced to £300,000.

3. The maximum purchase price for which First-Time Buyers Relief (as above) can be claimed at all is currently £625,000. This will be reduced to the previous level of £500,000.

If you are purchasing a property, and are in any doubt please visit the governments stamp duty calculator at https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/calculate-stamp-duty-land-tax/#!/intron. Where possible we will have given you advice on the different amounts payable before and after the change but if you have any further queries, then please do let us know.