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Property weekly highlights—17 April 2025

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Published on: 17 April 2025

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Table of contents

Leasing property
Relief from forfeiture—residential sub-tenants of mixed-use building
MCL Working Group publishes version 1.8 of MCL suite of documents
Transferring property
HMLR blog post on registration service improvements
Property taxes
SDLT—overpayment relief
SDLT—multiple dwellings relief and overpayment claims
Key developments and horizon scanning
OFSI releases Property sector threat assessment report on financial sanctions

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Article summary

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: cases on relief from forfeiture granted to residential sub-tenants of a mixed-use building and stamp duty land tax, new versions of the MCL leases, an update from HM Land Registry on its registration service and a Property and Related Services Threat Assessment Report on financial sanctions.

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