It is good news that HMRC has seen sense and announced today (11 December, 2012) that farmhouses worth over £2m and occupied by working farmers will qualify for relief from the new Annual Residential Property Tax (ARPT) on residential property ow…
Knight Frank’s Country Division have put over £250m worth of property under offer in the last month, with an average value of just under £1.5m during a recent surge of transactions.
The end of November and beginning of De…
London, UK – Knight Frank’s out of town retail and leisure team has secured a prestigious new instruction to launch the sale of the prime mixed use leisure scheme -The Light, Leeds – to the market, on behalf of Kames Capital.
The asse…
As lawyers representing the government and anti-HS2 campaigners continue to go head to head in the High Court, the Chancellor George Osborne provided more backing for the controversial scheme in his Autumn Statement today (5 December).
Mr Osborne said:…
London, UK – The Government attempted today to provide greater simplicity and transparency to the CRC scheme.
The Chancellor announced that the performance league table will be abolished and the cost of allowances will rise by a third to £…
London, UK – The Chancellor announced this afternoon that after considering the Empty Property Rate review led by York Outer MP Julian Sturdy, he had decided to introduce exemption from rates for new developments from October next year. This means that…
Q3 2012 results show that Europe was the only region to see prices decline. But Brazil, Hong Kong, Turkey, Russia, Colombia and Austria experienced double digit growth.
The Knight Frank Global House Price Index rose by 0.1% in the threemonths…
The increasingly bitter battle concerning the proposed high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham moved to the High Court today (3 December).
Over the next seven days the court will conduct a judicial review of the controversial scheme based on…
Knight Frank is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of the Belgravia residential estate agency side of George Trollope, based at 47 Lower Belgrave Street, SW1W. This acquisition allows Knight Frank to continue to grow its re…
Boundary issues are a common problem for rural property owners; whether in the form of damage, trespass, fly tipping, encroachment or ownership disputes.
So far, however, no attempt has been made to quantify the problem across the UK. The Knight…
