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New Prime-Time Channel 5 TV Documentary Looking For People About to Change Their Lives 2nd June, 2016 Are you about to relocate for a major lifestyle and career change? Pi Productions is looking for couples and families planning to quit the rat race for a better life. Whether you’re a budding chocolatier or cheesemaker, moving to the countryside to run an artisan bakery or farm shop, or opening a restaurant in a bustling new town, they want to hear your story. They are casting for a brand new documentary series and... Read more
Restaurant Business Sold 20th May, 2016 A restaurant business in Brampton near Carlisle has been sold through Mere Commercial. Brambles Bistro opened for business in 2013 offering an a la carte homemade menu using local produce.  It is fully licensed with 32 covers and has an outside seating area to the front.  The business was sold on behalf of Chris and Sarah Mitchelson who are concentrating on other business interests in the town and was on the marke... Read more
Penrith 40 Business Park Facility Sold 12th May, 2016 Mere Commercial are pleased to announce completion of the sale of Signal House at Penrith 40 Business Park, Penrith.  Signal House is a storage office and workshop facility which was built in 1999 to service the Caldbeck television transmitter but that work is being relocated to the mast itself. The property has been acquired by Veterinary Vision Limited, a specialist ophthalmic veterinary service covering the nor... Read more
Iconic Dales Village Inn Offered For Sale/ Let 20th April, 2016 An iconic Yorkshire Dales village inn is being offered for sale or let through Mere Commercial. Standing proudly at the top of Dents’ cobbled main street for more than 300 years, the Sun Inn is the original Dales village inn and its picture is often featured as a promotional focal point for the Dales and its products.  Dent lies in the secluded and unspoilt Dentdale Valley and yet is only 10 miles from the M6 motor... Read more
Changes to Stamp Duty on Commercial Property 31st March, 2016 The way stamp duty on freehold commercial property and leasehold premium transactions is calculated was changed in the recent budget. Stamp duty rates for residential property were changed to a graduated system in 2014 but on commercial property continued to apply to the whole transaction value. From 17 March 2016 the rates will apply to the value of the property over each tax band. The new rates and tax bands will... Read more
Small Business Rates Relief Extended 17th March, 2016 The Chancellor announced in the budget that from April 2017, small businesses that occupy a single property with a rateable value of £12,000 or less will pay no business rates. Currently, this 100% relief is available if you’re a business that occupies a property (e.g. a shop or office) with a rateable value of £6,000 or less.  There will be a tapered rate of relief on properties with a rateable value between £12,... Read more
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