Real Estate Tax Seminar

Join us for a breakfast seminar on Tuesday 19 June addressing tax opportunities and challenges for the residential property development sector.  
This will be complemented by an overview of the current UK residential market, focusing upon activity in Greater London including the outlook for prime central markets:

RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY MARKET UPDATE - SAVILLS
Lucian Cook, Director at Savills Residential Research, will focus on the UK residential property market and highlight both current and emerging trends in the sector. As a leading market expert, Lucian produces bespoke research based reports for a number of developer and investment clients, edits The Residential Property Focus and provides research and commentary for the national press.
 
SDLT CHANGES
Lisa Benosiglio, Tax Director at BDO, will outline the significant changes to stamp duty land tax affecting high value residential property, focusing upon the impact on developers in this sector.  The scope for planning to mitigate SDLT liabilities will be discussed in the context of the 2012 Budget announcements, highlighting the remaining opportunities to optimise the benefit of available reliefs.
 
TRENDS IN TAX PLANNING
Thomas Story, Tax Director at BDO, will outline a number of tax planning approaches being adopted to optimise the overall tax position for residential developers. Areas of focus will include the opportunities and risks arising from offshore tax structures to develop UK residential property; structures for the acquisition of distressed debt; approaches for owning and funding land banks; and the tax issues relating to affordable housing schemes.

If you have any queries in relation to this event, please contact Catriona Bunting on 0207 893 3866 or email catriona.bunting@bdo.co.uk

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