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Can we avoid higher rate SDLT?

agentcooper · 2022-05-20 14:43:30

Any advice/help gratefully received...here is our situation: * My girlfriend and I currently live in a property I own. She has lived with me here for 16 months but is not on the mortgage. * I am selling this property and we are co-buying a new property (a new build, if that matters) * My girlfriend still jointly owns a…

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agentcooper Posts: 10 Forumite

21 May 2022 at 2:53PM

GDB2222 said:

Being practical, how about offering girlfriend’s ex a financial incentive to get on with his buying of the flat. Through gritted teeth of course.

Yeah thanks, been down that route already. 🙂 I think we'll just need to try to delay the new purchase until the buy out is complete in and hope that everyone else can wait a little bit

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