Inherited Property is dedicated to helping you with Probate Property matters and your Inherited Property. A quick cash sale of the inherited Property may not be necessary. Inheriting a property can be stressful because of your emotional ties to the property, financial challenges and the burden of legal responsibilities. To help you discover the positive side of Inheriting a Property, this website is full of positive ideas and simple practical advice to help you and your family benefit most from your inherited property.
Many people dream of inheriting a property from a friend or relative. Inheriting a property is a great honour, but it may not be a straightforward route to happiness and riches! So we have produced this website and a Free Guide to help you discover the best way forward.
These pages provide an outline guide to the benefits and challenges of Inheriting Property in England and Wales. This is a basic practical guide and for those who want some hard legal advice we can show you where to find it. Please fill in the form on the right for our Free Guide Book.
Easy to Understand Advice and Help
There is a Help Section with many of the common questions that people ask. We have compiled this with the guidance of a panel of experts: lawyers, estate agents, and property experts, Citizens Advice Bureau, Family Lawyers, tax experts, builders etc. The help section is on the right………
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Inherited Property Advice – I don’t know where to start!
Lets start at the begining. If you are left a property in friend or relative’s will, you need to consider the following. For more information just click
Legal issues and probate
Tax issues and Capital gains Tax
what to do: Sell or rent out the property
Benefiaries/Family issues
Inherited Property Advice – Visiting the property upsets me
If you have inherited a property from a family member or friend, you may find it upsetting to visit the house. Many of the tasks you need to do can be safely given to others. You may find it helps if you sit down and make a list of things to be done, such as clearing the house, or updating it for sale. Make a list of jobs to do from start to finish and got through this with a trusted friend or family member. Decide which jobs you really need to do yourself and which can be safely carried out by others. If you are using builders or other trades always get three quotes. You may find it helps if you visit the property with a supportive family member or friend. Also remember that cleaners, house clearers and builders won’t be upset by what they find at the house.
You need to decide what to do with the property, for example sell it, or rent it out, or have another family member moves in. Once you have done this, you will likely feel relief and be more positive and able to move on with your life.
Inherited Property Advice – Probate and Helping you with Legal Fees
This page has some straightforward advice that will save you time and money. The probate process can appear to be a legal maze. Practical advice on how much legal fees cost for probate, selling a property, making a will etc.
Many people do DIY Probate to save money- but is it safe? We can recommend the best low cost legal advice in the UK or a local family solicitor if you would prefer. For legal advice for the Probate process, making a will or similar, click here. GoTo will/probate/solicitor page
Inherited Property Advice – Helping you with Tax Issues
For advice on Capital Gains Tax and other issues please click here to visit our Capital Gains Tax page
Inherited Property Advice – Help! My Inherited Property Needs Updating!
The property you are about to inherit may be in poor condition. If you have inherited a property that is old or not mortgageble, needs updating or repairing, you need to go to this section.
Inherited Property Advice – You may live far away from the property
If you inherit a property that is far away it presents extra challenges. If you wish to update the property, sell it or rent it, there are difficulties of doing this at a distance.
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Inherited Property provides positive advice and suggestions for a range of problems and challenges faced by people inheriting a house.
Our Easy Advice System will help you find an answer quickly. Its on the right hand side of this page. All information is treated as confidential and will not be passed on to any one else without your permission.
Inherited Property Blog
By admin on May 15, 2012
The Legal profession’s share of the lucrative probate market has dipped sharply, with solicitors and those companies who provide services for those seeking probate in 2012 received a mere 44% of all probate grants issued, according to figures published today.
The 2011 data from the Probate Service (HMCTS), shows grants issued to solicitors fell nearly 30% between 2006 and 2010 and that the majority of 2010 grants went to individuals (56%).
This according to Kevin Cole head of research at Title Research, the probate and people tracing company. Kevin's data indicates that the number of wills coming to probate in 2011 that had failed to appoint an executor or had appointed an executor who was unable or unwilling to administer the estate had risen by 5% on 2010 to 15,553.
www.inheritedproperty.co.uk has many enquiries from people who poorly advised or suffering diy probate problems. If in doubt consider professional advice from a solicitor.
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By admin on November 23, 2011
This week is national will writing week. Its important to make a will because if there is no will the deceased assets are distributed according to the rules of intestacy instead of personal wishes. Its important to have a will to ensure your beneficiaries are not subject to financial and emotional stress that can result from intestacy.
A will is especially important for unmarried partners to ensure the surviving partner receives their share of the estate.
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By admin on October 5, 2011
Land Registry new guide to help inherited property search
The land registry has launched a new service and a guide to searching the index of proprietors’ names. In other words the land registry can help persons search for all the property owned by an individual. If you are an executor or your solicitor is acting as an executor they can for a fee of £12 search all land registry records for property belonging to the deceased.
This may be helpful if you are unsure of the assets or liabilities of the deceased.
Land Registry Guide
The Land Registry 's new guidance on searching for property belonging to an person or coproration in the
Index of Proprietors’ Names (
IOPN). The guide is called
Practice Guide 74 – Searches of the Index of Proprietors’ Names . The guide explains how to search the index.
Anyone can search the IOPN to find properties in:
· their name
· the name of a company
· the name of some other person in whose property they can satisfy the registrar that they have a general interest. For example:
. the Official Receiver or a trustee in bankruptcy can search against the name of the bankrupt
. a personal representative may search against the name of the deceased on production of probate or letters of administration.
· the name of a private individual if they have a court order authorising an IOPN search
· the name of a private individual if they have the written authority of the person being searched.
Download the guide from
http://www1.landregistry.gov.uk/upload/documents/pg74.html . There is a fee of £12 to make a search.
For further information about Land Registry visit
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By admin on September 26, 2011
What are the probate issues for your house in Spain? If you are a non-domiciled resident in Spain, its worthing considering probate issues. Despite the sunshine and Sangria you or your close relatives may be in for a very unpeaseant double inheritance tax wammy. Beneficiaries are liable for inheritance tax in both the UK and Spain.
In the UK it the deceased's estate that is taxed wheres in Spain it is the individual inheritor. This difference can mean a double taxation burden. The resulting tax bill can wipeout the entire inheritance AND to make matters worse probate must be obtained in both countries and payed for twice!
For more information on UK/Spain probate planning and tax efficient inheritance see specialist solicitors such
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By admin on September 26, 2011
What does probate cost? Well according to a recent Sun-Life survey the average cost of probate in the UK is £2,292. However more and more people are investigating the possibility of using DIY probate kits or specialist fixed fee probate solicitors. Certainly if the probate process is simple then the financial advantages are obvious.
Traditionally family solicitors make their money when their clients die, by handling the probate and conveyancing process. Sadly this can lead to high charges.
If in doubt its best to investigate all the different options.
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