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Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) has long been the bugbear of many property transactions. Even the very wealthy will lose interest...

The Stamp Duty holiday has been very beneficial for hundreds of thousands of buyers looking to take advantage of savings, even...

Earlier this month, Boris Johnson carried out a reshuffle of his cabinet, telling ministers they must 'repay the trust of those...

Some buying agents have batted away the many signs of an improving housing market but one says the Boris Bounce is...

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

We know that the tenant fee ban has cost letting agents dearly, with an estimated loss of £300 million paid to...

Recently a number of politicians and charities have been calling for the introduction of rent controls or rent freezes in the...

A record £8.2 billion was paid in Capital Gains Tax in 2017/18 - over £1 billion more than the year before.  The...

With Boris Johnson winning the Conservative leadership election and becoming Prime Minister, he has spent his first few days in office...

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

Another year is nearly done – and what an eventful year it’s been. We’ve had more than our fair share of breaking...

It’s now almost a month since the government introduced new rules on Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO), as part of its...

Landlords and letting agents might feel they’ve taken a bit of a battering from the government in recent years – and...

The buy-to-let sector, which has been under sustained pressure for a number of years now thanks to tax changes designed to...

The Money editor of The Mirror newspaper has finally sold a home he first put on the market in late 2016...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

As we hurtle towards the end of 2017, it’s time to reflect on the year that’s just been.   Even better, this property-based...

Like many of Labour’s recent policy proposals, its call for rent controls leaves more questions than answers.  There has been widespread criticism...

It’s not just the evenings drawing in that marks the approach of autumn - it’s also the return to work of...

A think tank says the penalties now levied against second home owners - such as the stamp duty surcharge and phasing...

Stamp duty has become the latest weapon in the ongoing war of words between different wings of the Conservative party, as...

My apologies if this causes you to break your Easter egg with a little too much aggression, but I reckon the...

More than three quarters of developers want to see the government go into reverse on its stamp duty and mortgage interest...

In this Natter we have an exclusive interview with David Cox, CEO of ARLA Propertymark and one of the best-known figures...

There was nothing doing in the Budget - no stamp duty reform, no second look at mortgage interest tax relief changes,...

Chancellor Phillip Hammond has introduced no new property taxes in his Spring Budget - but a clampdown on those setting up...

Looking ahead to the Spring Budget this week, the Chancellor Philip Hammond will be obliged to face up to the implications...

Over the past two decades, investing in buy-to-let has been a relatively easy way to make money, which is why so...

The buy-to-let market has gone through significant change in the last year and with the Budget just around the corner, what...

2016 was quite a year – eventful, dramatic, shocking and impossible to predict. In no particular order, we saw Leicester winning...

The rental market has had to face a raft of changes over the past year, including the introduction of the 3% stamp...

The government has announced that its next Budget will be on March 8 next year. Until recently, Budgets and their ‘mini-me’ Autumn...

Brexit and wider economic uncertainties worsened by changes to property taxation have forced the Council of Mortgage Lenders to cut its...

Forecasts are so last year: who anticipated Bowie, Brexit or Balls for example? Quotes, on the other hand, really ARE last year...

A housebuilder that has in the past profited from its concentration on high-end London schemes says demand for its units is...

In case you missed it yesterday, here’s a summary of everything relating to property that was in Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s Autumn...

Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...

It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...

Forecasts are a tricky business. And as I wrote in a recent Industry Views opinion piece, any prediction in the current...

We are now only days away from one of the most-anticipated events in UK politics; one which has a considerable impact...

We are now less than a month away from Philip Hammond’s first Autumn Statement to the nation, depending of course on...

The huge consequences of the EU referendum, and the impending Brexit negotiations, have drawn into sharp light the consequences for a...

Buy-to-let landlords may have failed in their recent legal battle against planned government tax relief changes for buy-to-let homes set to...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has met campaigners to scrap anti-buy to let measures introduced by the Cameron government in the past...

For many people buy-to-let continues to look an attractive income investment at a time of low saving rates and stock market...

The high-profit property crowdfunding site Property Partner has laid off 13 of its employees - equivalent to around 29 per cent...

What a month it has been. By the time you read this, we'll have a new Prime Minister, a new Cabinet,...

New proposals to curtail mortgage borrowing in the buy to let sector have been branded as “a classic case of slamming...

A key Bank of England body has revealed its proposals for tougher borrowing standards to prevent buy to let lending overheating the wider...

Later today chancellor George Osborne will make his latest budget speech. The announcement is expected to confirm the details of the 3%...

When it comes to Budgets and Property, you have to hope that the old adage that ‘things happen in threes’ turns...

There has been a surge of new crowdfunding platforms aimed at people who either cannot afford to purchase their own buy...

The housing market will slow in the next three years as affordability problems and buy to let taxes combine to offset...

Negativity. There’s a lot of it about in the lettings industry right now. Where you might see barriers, hurdles and more...

Here's a thought. The Chancellor may have done the buy-to-let industry a small favour with his emergency Budget in July. What...