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Past News Items

The Right to Roam – an Overview.

1st January 2004 - T. Wyn Jones

The desire to open up access to the countryside has been around since the middle of the 19th century but now the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2002 has finally delivered the right to roam albeit over limited areas and subject to a variety of exceptions, exclusions, and restrictions. Read more...

Lease Family Treasures to Dodge the Taxman

1st December 2003 - T. Wyn Jones

I recently read an article that outlined a new scheme that has been accepted by the Inland Revenue and that could save hundreds of thousands of pounds in inheritance tax(IHT). Read more...

Time to Hedge Your Bets?

1st November 2003 - T. Wyn Jones

In the built environment most structures require planning permission before they can be erected. Your ground floor extension to your mid-terrace house will invariably be first considered by your local planning authority who may, for various reasons refuse permission for such. Not so however any form of organic growth. In fact there is no limit on organic growth in planning terms. Read more...

That Sinking Feeling.

1st October 2003 - T. Wyn Jones

Sitting here writing this article on a beautiful "Indian Summers" evening my thoughts turn to the forthcoming winter and inevitable flood warnings. Read more...

No More New Homes in the Countryside!

1st September 2003 - T. Wyn Jones

Under the current government guidelines and under certain circumstances new dwellings can be built in the countryside, but I am informed things are set to change! Read more...

Death Duties Are BACK!

1st August 2003 - T. Wyn Jones

Remember Death Duties well they are back in the guise of Inheritance Tax (IHT) but they don’t just affect the wealthy. Actually they never went away but what has happened is that like Stamp Duty the threshold from which the tax becomes payable has in real terms dropped and not risen in line with the increase in property prices. Read more...

£1000 up Front to Sell Your Home!

1st July 2003 - T. Wyn Jones

HOMEOWNERS will have to spend up to £1,000 creating a seller's pack 'logbook' for their house before putting it on the market under plans recently unveiled. Read more...

House Prices Set to Increase BY 10% This YEAR!

1st June 2003 - T. Wyn Jones

Recent comments by what is held to be the authoritative source on property indicates that house prices look set to increase by 10% this year despite evidence that the market is slowing down. Read more...

Farming and Agricultural Finance LTD

22nd May 2003

McCartneys are agents for FAF and can offer very competitive Agricultural mortgages for all purposes, including finance for allied industries and diversification. Read more...

New Homes Have Shrunk BY a Third Since the 1920s

1st May 2003 - T. Wyn Jones

The size of the average new house has shrunk by about a third in the past 80 years with the traditional high ceilings and spacious rooms making way for more compact homes crammed onto tiny plots of land - or so a survey recently revealed. Read more...