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Stamp Duty Rise for Buy to Lets

The Chancellor in his Autumn Statement, stated that ‘more and more homes are being bought as buy to lets or second homes’ and ‘frankly, people buying a home to let should not be squeezing out families who can’t afford a home to buy’. With this in mind the Chancellor announced higher rates of Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) on...

Will landlords be ready for the 1st October Changes?

On 1 October 2015 some significant changes will be made to housing law in England (properties in Wales are not affected). The changes increase the level of protection afforded to tenants and place extra burdens on landlords.It is our assessment that many landlords are not aware of the changes being implemented. This highlight...

The Deregulation Act 2015

October 1st 2015 also sees the introduction of the Deregulation Act. This has a number of implications for the private rented sector. Using the right letting agent could avoid problems around the corner.  One example is the serving of section 21 notices.You will not be able to validly serve a section 21 notice within the...

The Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes ...

October 1st 2015 sees the introduction of The Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes (Competent Authorities and Information) Regulations 2015. (ADR) Cornish Castle Property Management are already members of the TPO (The Property Ombudsman) offering a secondary redress scheme should our own in house complain...

New Website Goes Live

After suffering a complete failure of our last website due to unauthorized human intervention, we are pleased to launch our new website.We selected the company Landmax.pro to create our website which also integrates with our own CRM and office systems. After much searching we found their approach to be just what we needed. Af...