Property Vision, one of the country’s oldest and most respected buying agencies, has added its voice to those saying that stamp duty has stifled turnover in the prime London market - but it says Brexit, too, has made the issue worse.
In its latest market report PV says the increased stamp duty on high-end homes, since the reform of the duty by former Chancellor George Osborne, “has dragged down turnover by nearly 60 per cent from what appears, with hindsight, to have been a market top in 2014.”
It says prices have followed “but much less precipitously” with falls of 25 to 30 per cent in price for some of what the agency describes as “more overblown new developments in dodgy places” and 10 to 15 per cent across locations such as Kensington and Chelsea, and Westminster. Some other properties - “air-conditioned lateral flats in prime locations so beloved by the footloose international wealthy” it says - have remained static in price.
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