Overseas company buying a house in UK

Im involved with a company in Singapore that is keen to buy a property in UK to use for staff accomodation when travelling and also partly as an investment in an asset.

Are there any special rules regaing this such as tax matters or the need to form a local company to make the purchase?

I was asked and to be honest know feck all about estate agency matters. So any advice on this would be really appreciated..

Thanks