Monthly Archives: February 2017

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Help To Buy Scheme boosts weaker property markets

27th February 2017 | Buying and Selling a Home

According to a recent article in the Financial Times, the Help To Buy Scheme is being used by house builders to boost the property market in parts of England where there is “least demand”. Since 2013, more than 100,000 purchases have been backed by the Help To Buy Scheme. According to research carried out by Hometrack, house builders were signing up developments with use of the scheme in areas where prices have fallen. What is the Help To Buy Scheme? Created by the government, the...

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Cohabiting rights: Legal rights when living together

15th February 2017 | Cohabitation Issues

Your legal rights when cohabiting are significantly different to the legal rights available to a married couple or civil partners. Unfortunately, there are no automatic rights to claims over your partner’s assets no matter how long you have lived with your partner. Where do you stand on cohabiting rights? In 2007, the Law Commission published its recommendations to introduce legislation to provide financial relief to cohabiting couples, but this was not progressed in England and Wales....

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