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Coventry Building Society has joined calls for Stamp Duty reform. The lender has urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to address the controversial property...

A stamp duty cut would see house prices go up and evictions soar, a property industry commentator claims. Reports in the past...

We all know that first-time buyers have had a tough time of it lately. Mad mini-budgets resulting in higher interest rates...

A report in the Times newspaper says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is planning a stamp duty cut in the early autumn. The paper...

Propertymark has added its name to calls for Stamp Duty reform and has also urged lenders to develop more affordable mortgage...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given the strongest hint yet that housing measures could be included in the Spring Budget. Chancellor Jeremy...

Housing policy should focus on making better use of existing stock as well building more homes, a new report claims. A report...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will deliver his Autumn Statement this afternoon amid rumours of Stamp Duty reforms and support for first-time buyers. The...

Almost three quarters of homes on the market would be exempt from Stamp Duty for home-movers if the Chancellor introduced a...

Rumours about tax cuts in this week’s Autumn Statement are continuing but there are warnings that a Stamp Duty cut may...

A buying agent has given his backing to the prospect of a Stamp Duty and Inheritance Tax (IHT) cut during this...

Stamp Duty cuts won’t give the property market the boost it needs, an agency chief executive has warned. Dominic Agace, chief executive...

Agency brand Chestertons has joined calls for Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to include Stamp Duty reform in his Autumn Statement. Hunt will deliver...

More than three quarters of Estate Agent Today readers have backed the prospect of a Stamp Duty cut. The Government is rumoured...

The best way to judge the UK housing market is to check on what’s happening in Parliament, not the price indices...

A proposed cut in stamp duty by the Westminster government would be a welcome boost to homebuyers and would need to...

Stamp Duty reform was back in the news over the weekend amid reports that the Government plans to reform the controversial...

House prices are falling at their fastest rate in 12 years, dropping £7,500 on average over the past 12 months, according...

The end of last year’s Stamp Duty holiday has given a temporary boost to house price data for October 2022. The latest...

Auction House UK has reported a 10% annual rise in sales under the hammer despite the challenging market. The brand said its...

A West Midlands estate agent has backed Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s plans to reverse cuts to Stamp Duty, claiming they should never...

Aside from all the news surrounding the Autumn Statement this week, which will have a significant bearing on the property market...

The property sector braced itself for the chill wind of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement this week. His pre-Budget comment that he...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has outlined plans to reduce Stamp Duty cuts outlined in his predecessor’s mini-Budget. In September, former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng...

Mortgage rates look likely to fall after Rishi Sunak’s appointment as Prime Minister but analysts are still unsure how far the...

A Bill to bring the Government’s Stamp Duty reductions into legislation reached its second reading in the Houses of Parliament this...

The Government’s mini budget on September 23 was anything but ‘mini’ with several major announcements one of the most significant of...

The new Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has reversed almost all of the tax cuts set out in Kwasi Kwarteng's disastrous mini-Budget three...

New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been described as a safe pair of hands who could limit the extent of a housing...

In a dramatic, fast-moving day, the Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng was sacked ahead of a press conference by Liz Truss which reversed the...

House prices fell marginally (down by 0.1%) in September as the market displayed further signs of slowdown. That was according to Halifax’s...

Annual house price growth slowed to single digits in September and was flat on a monthly basis, Nationwide figures show. The lender’s...

The government’s Stamp Duty reforms could provide a boost to homebuilding in the UK, a property investor claims. Real estate investor Alliance...

A leading property association has warned that house prices are likely to spike in the wake of the government’s recent economic...

With the Treasury and the Bank of England stepping in to try and calm the markets, talk of an emergency interest...

The fallout from Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget, which has spooked the markets and caused the pound to fall to record lows,...

The threshold for the Welsh version of stamp duty is set to rise, following on from the stamp duty cut for...

The stamp duty cut announced by the government in last week’s mini-Budget could save homebuyers across England more than £1 billion...

The confirmation of an immediate Stamp Duty cut last week may have meant delayed sales could complete, but there are concerns...

The much-rumoured Stamp Duty cut has been confirmed, increasing the thresholds before the property tax is paid. Delivering his mini-Budget this morning,...

New Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is expected to unveil the Government’s so-called “plan for growth” today during a mini-Budget. The property market is...

Agents and other property professionals have, perhaps unsurprisingly, reacted positively to rumours of a Stamp Duty cut. Prime Minister Liz Truss and...

The latest housing minister has been revealed as the prospect of Stamp Duty reform returns to the property market. New ministerial appointments...

New calls have emerged to give pensioners stamp duty tax breaks to downsize their homes. The National Association of Property Buyers (NAPB)...

There are whispers in Whitehall about plans to encourage pensioners to downsize with a stamp duty tax break. The move, first reported...

Peta Milne, founder of Instagram growth and PR service Monimo, and a content writer at Choices Estate Agents, recently sat down...

A stamp duty cut would provide a long-term to improve energy efficiency on homes, the Chancellor has been told by an...

The UK government has been told it should make the stamp duty cut permanent to encourage investment and make it easier...

The Northern Research Group, which has the backing of over 50 Conservative MPs in the north of England, wants the Chancellor...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is considering an extension to the current stamp duty holiday according to media reports today - and the...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is taking credit for saving thousands of agency jobs through increased transactions prompted by the stamp duty holiday. A...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty holiday means prime property in the UK now enjoys lower tax rates than most European countries. Buyers...

With stamp duty cuts and 90% mortgages on their way back, anyone could think the housing market was about to go...

You have to feel for Rishi Sunak - well, at least a little. Leave to one side that he carries more presentational...

An industry analyst is challenging the long-established agents’ view that reducing or temporarily scrapping stamp duty would help the market. On the...

A prominent tax specialist has suggested that stamp duty cuts would not help improve the housing market, despite many agents suggesting...

Family houses are under-occupied and only incentives to downsize can help improve the housing market - with a stamp duty cut...

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

A veteran agent says the new government’s Budget, expected in the next few weeks, should not provide too much help to...

A former 10 Downing Street adviser says stamp duty on house sales should be scrapped or at least slashed in order...

A new analysis of stamp duty suggests that a cut of around a third in SDLT could produce a 40 per...

A report by Santander says stamp duty cuts should be used as incentives for older home owners to downsize and allow...

We now have a new Leader of the Conservative Party and, rather more importantly, a new Prime Minister. That individual is Boris...

The issue of ‘intergenerational fairness’ has been raised in recent weeks, some might say somewhat ironically by a House of Lords’...

Were it not for climate change, I would be very close to predicting that the summer is close to being over,...

A respected mortgage broker has found that there is widespread public uncertainty amongst the public about the effects of stamp duty...

A government announcement this morning claims 121,500 first time buyers have taken advantage of the stamp duty cut introduced at the...

The National Association of Estate Agents says the government’s first time buyer stamp duty incentive “seems to be having the desired...

The number of first-time buyers has increased 16 per cent in the past month and 10 per cent year on year...

Rightmove’s former lettings chief Sam Mitchell has taken over as chief executive of online agency HouseSimple, which recently won another £20m...

One of the most influential select committees in parliament has told the government that it needs to do more - much...

Another new year is nearly upon us and, once we’ve got the season of mince pies, mulled wine, pigs in blankets,...

Earlier this week, Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered the Autumn Budget with a strong focus on housing.  The decision to cut stamp duty...

Agents and even the Labour Party have backed the government’s scrapping of stamp duty for first time buyers’ purchases up to...

The housing industry has set out a list of demands in advance of the government’s hotly anticipated Autumn Budget on Wednesday.  Despite...

The number of homes sold for £1m and above has risen by 12 per cent in the first half of 2016 -...