National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA)

With the budget just weeks away, this is the season for all interested parties to set out their ideas of how and why chancellor Alistair Darling should alter the tax system. In the case of the UK property market, faced as it is with many challenges, there are a number of areas in which change has been called for. Today the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) set out its own proposals to deal with some of the big issues of the day. Stamp duty, perhaps not surprisingly, ...

France 'survives credit crunch'

Since the term credit crunch entered the lexicon at some point last year, the mortgage market has become tougher in the UK, with this week's withdrawal of 125 per cent mortgage products being the latest reduction in the availability of products with which to buy property in Britain.In France, however, it appears the opposite has occurred. In recent years the country, whose president Nicolas Sarkozy pledged to create a nation of homeowners, has seen a major boom. More ...

Do You Know You Can Skip Paying The Capital Gains Tax?

If you're a real estate investment aspirant, then you might have heard about a way to defer tax payment for a sale. The technique is properly called 1031 Tax Deferred Exchange. But you might wish that you know more about it and how to avail for this tax law incentive. Finally you there's a law-mandated benefit that says it's legal for investors to delay the payment of capital gains tax if the requirements have been followed. This is under section 1031 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. The ...