Archive for January 2016

Thousands of tenants have been registering to buy their homes over the last few months. It follows the government announcement that 1.3 million housing association tenants should qualify for the Right to Buy scheme, which had previously only been available to people in council owned properties. The scheme allows tenants to buy their homes at…

A woman’s second will in which she declared that she wanted to leave most of her estate to a close friend has been declared invalid because it wasn’t properly executed. It means that a number of charities will now inherit even though it’s unlikely that she wanted her money to pass to them. The case…

he government has introduced a series of new measures to help more people buy their first home. One of the main changes will reduce the restrictions on who can buy a home through shared ownership. Shared ownership is a scheme that allows people to move into a home by simply buying a share of it…