Postby Overleigh » Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:28 am
Maths, thank you once again for your help.
I understand from your first reply to my original question that in our situation (the 2 homes owned by my wife and I since marriage ) there is no clear "main residence". This raises the question, "What steps could we take to establish one of the two houses as our main residence?"
If, for example, my wife lived with me in my Somerset house 5 days out of 7 and moved her GP to Somerset would that be sufficient to establish the Somerset house as the main residence? Or, conversely, if I were to live with my wife in Devon 5 days out of 7 and move my car insurance address to the Devon house would that be sufficient to establish the Devon house as our main residence?
We are not trying to get around any rules; we simply would like the option of selling our main residence - which ever one it is - to buy our new, future main residence before selling the other second home.
We could sell either of the Somerset and Devon houses first, but, at this moment, we are unsure which is the main residence.