Whether you're a layman looking to understand your own transaction or a lawyer needing assistance with a client's conveyancing our step by step sale and purchase guides will lead you through the process while our mini guides will break the whole thing into manageable chunks and give a deep insight into the key issues and stages. Leasehold, freehold, unregistered, registered – we've got it all covered.
Need help with a remortgage or transfer of equity / deed of gift? Our guides will walk you through the process and highlight some of the common pitfalls. Mortgages and transfers can be very simple procedures but complex issues can sometimes arise and mistakes are easily made. These guides will help you deal with them.
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A big part of the conveyancing process is the conveyancing searches. This section tells you all about them. What they are, how and when to order them and how to interpret the results. Each search has its own guide and you'll see they are separated into Standard (should be done in every case), Regional (area specific) and Optional (not essential but often useful tools for the would be purchaser). All buyers should beware that when you buy a property, the law assumes that you have seen the information that would have been revealed by searches whether or not you have actually carried them out, so you buy the property subject to the results.
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I am gifting equity worth £300k to my son purchasing my property worth £700k. I will receive £400k on completion, although I am being advised that I need to pay Capital Gains tax on full Market value. My solicitor and my sons solicitors are arguing regarding panel 8 of the Tr1. My solicitor is saying it shpuld be only £400k whereas my son's solcitors are saying it should be £700k. Wondering if you could through some light on it.
It is £400 the remainder was a gift
Consideration can be different from purchase price, yes. The amount being paid for Panel 8 of the TR1 is literally the amount changing hands, i.e. £400,000.
To use another example, we have cases where someone gifts property, for example one spouse gifting property to another, or a director gifting a property into his company. If no money changes hands the consideration in Panel 8 of the TR1 will be nil. That would not however change the fact that the director needs to pay SDLT on the full market value for the transfer to a connected company.
Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is outside my area of expertise (ask an accountant) but whether or not £700,000 is the amount for CGT, the amount on the TR1 is £400,000. Incidentally it would be different if the £300,000 was by way of loan rather than gift. If the £300,000 was loaned then he would be paying £400,000 cash and £300,000 by way of debt and thus panel 8 in that case would be £700,000.
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