Structure, Insurance and Protection

Entities, cover and protecting what you have built

Many investors arrive at this point with a portfolio assembled honestly but untidily: properties in different names, insurance arranged in a hurry, no will that covers the portfolio and no plan for illness. This book is about tidying that up properly, once. It explains the layers of law you now sit under, why Section 24 sits at the centre of your decisions and what changes when property sits in a company. You will see how licensing and planning change at scale, and the contracts that appear only as you grow, including why a shareholder agreement matters more than it seems. The insurance chapter sets out the cover a portfolio operator needs and the two ways a claim quietly fails. The tax chapter compares personal and company ownership with a worked example, and covers the cost of moving what you already hold, taking money out, and groups and succession. A compliance checklist and an account of the penalties complete the book. Next in this series: “Systems, Team and Exit”.

What’s inside

• The legal framework in plain English
• Permissions, licensing and planning
• The contracts, and what must be inside them
• Insurance, safety and your legal duties
• Tax treatment and choosing a structure
• Your compliance checklist
• Getting this wrong: what it actually costs

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