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Proposed minimum energy efficiency standards regulation in England could leave residential landlords facing a £17.9 billion bill. The government’s proposal for all rental properties to have a minimum Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of C by 2025 will add pressure to those already faced by landlords and may lead to many exiting the sector. We… Continue reading Residential landlord’s face sizeable energy efficiency upgrade cost

While undoubtedly price sensitive, our prime indices suggest the top end of the housing market has proved to be more resilient than we expected might be the case six months ago. On average, prices of prime homes in London moved very little in the first quarter of this year. Meanwhile in the prime regional housing markets prices… Continue reading What’s happening with house prices right now?

Castling & Co offers clients a tailored approach to selling unique assets by harnessing our network of domestic and international investors, which enable us to hold private sales. We conduct these sales for a variety of items, such as fine art, jewelry, and luxury vehicles. Our team is on hand to assist with research, valuations,… Continue reading Selling Privately and Refinancing Unique Items

Our assisted sale product is a mechanism through which we inject liquidity into the process of selling Prime and Super-Prime real estate in the United Kingdom. Buffeted by the headwinds incurred by servicing debt in an inflationary market, record rises in interest rates, no reduction in stamp duty for properties over £1,500,000; liquidity can become… Continue reading Real Estate Liquidity – The Assisted Sale

On 23 September 2022, the then Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announced changes to stamp duty land tax when purchasing residential property, as part of the Government’s Growth Plan. In his statement to the House, Mr Kwarteng said these measures would “mean that 200,000 more people will be taken out of paying stamp duty altogether.” The Commons… Continue reading Stamp Duty – How the proposed changes in Stamp Duty impact the Prime Market