by Marie Stein | 26 Feb, 2020 | Residential Property
Spring must be in the air because I’m receiving lots of queries about renovations and conversions. Or maybe it’s the effect of Brexit? Either way things seem busier in the property world at the moment. 2 year and the 10 year unoccupied rules One of the...
by Marie Stein | 8 Oct, 2019 | Residential Property
Over the past few months, I’ve received a number of queries about property renovations and proving the 2 year “empty house” condition. This is the rule that says a dwelling must have been unoccupied for at least 2 years, before contractors can...
by Marie Stein | 12 May, 2019 | Residential Property
In the past few months, I’ve had queries from a couple of developers about claiming VAT on costs. In both cases, the developers have converted old residential homes into apartments, selling or intending to sell long leases in the newly converted apartments. ...
by Marie Stein | 28 Apr, 2019 | Residential Property
If you want to avoid mistakes and unexpected VAT bills, you need to do the VAT planning for your development as part of the initial financial planning for the project. It might seem obvious that the VAT cost of a development is the difference between the VAT you pay...
by Marie Stein | 15 Jan, 2019 | Residential Property
VAT and flipping dwellings One of the most common types of property developing is the practice of “flipping”; i.e. buying an existing dwelling, typically a house, renovating it and selling it. Very often these deals are done within a relatively short timescale,...
