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Competition from Dubai and concerns about taxation under the new Labour Government have led the world’s super-rich to spend less and...
16 July 2024
From: Breaking News
In the second of their Election Wishlist series, Leaders Romans Group turn the spotlight on the Private Rented Sector (PRS). Here, National...
08 June 2024
From: Features
And so we wait. The election, still only a week old and with almost five left to go, has served up main...
01 June 2024
From: Features
High interest rates, slow price growth and more stringent tax rules have eroded Buy-to-Let’s (BTL) charm for a number of landlords,...
18 May 2024
From: Features
There was a long-awaited return to the House of Commons this week when the Renters (Reform) Bill finally rose to the...
27 April 2024
From: Features
When is a landlord a business, and when is (s)he not a business? I’m not referring to landlords who have gone down...
24 February 2024
From: Features
The factor most likely to influence the housing market next year is entirely outside the industry’s control: the General Election. Knight Frank...
16 December 2023
From: Features
To help or not to help: that is the question the government is facing with regard to under-pressure private rented sector...
16 September 2023
From: Features
A new survey suggests the overwhelming majority of the public are critical of the government’s apparent housing failures. A study of 1,323...
01 June 2023
From: Breaking News
The Northern Ireland Executive should seek devolved powers over Stamp Duty, Propertymark claims. The agency trade body has urged the Executive to...
06 December 2022
From: Breaking News
There’s talk of 50-year mortgages being introduced, loans that, along with the property they finance, could be passed to the next...
09 July 2022
From: Features
Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) has long been the bugbear of many property transactions. Even the very wealthy will lose interest...
07 May 2022
From: Features
Winkworth agents posted record sales income last year, attributed to the stamp duty holiday. The London-listed agent franchise group revealed in its...
13 April 2022
From: Breaking News
The industry has reacted to the Spring Statement by breathing a sigh of relief that nothing was likely to cause damage...
24 March 2022
From: Breaking News
Yesterday we reported on how the Chartered Institute of Taxation was warning of problems with new HMRC stamp duty rules to...
02 March 2022
From: Breaking News
HM Revenue & Customs has been warned by financial experts that its latest crackdown on stamp duty abuse could make the...
01 March 2022
From: Breaking News
The majority of homeowners and homebuyers believe Stamp Duty Land Tax is outdated and needs reform. The mortgage lender Butterfield commissioned an...
09 February 2022
From: Breaking News
A pilot scheme has been announced to test ways of limiting second home ownership and reducing the impact additional properties have...
25 November 2021
From: Breaking News
At first glance, Rishi Sunak’s Budget speech earlier this week didn’t offer much from a property perspective. But digging down a little...
30 October 2021
From: Features
The Budget has proven more generous than many expected - and with most property taxation left unchanged. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has made...
27 October 2021
From: Breaking News
By the time I next write this column, we’ll be just days before the next Budget and Autumn Statement. So I’ll...
02 October 2021
From: Features
Lost in the noise of yesterday’s social care announcements, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has named October 27 as his next Budget Day...
08 September 2021
From: Breaking News
Agents and developers are creating full-size show home-style properties overseas in a bid to woo wealthy foreigners who cannot travel to...
18 August 2021
From: Breaking News
There’s already plenty of talk about autumn - depressing huh? - with agents pondering how the housing market will respond to...
07 August 2021
From: Features
Propertymark has worked with one of the UK governments to create an information sheet which, in virtual or hard copy firm,...
29 July 2021
From: Breaking News
The Stamp Duty holiday has been very beneficial for hundreds of thousands of buyers looking to take advantage of savings, even...
16 June 2021
From: Features
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Bal Arora – Managing Director In your experience, what is the...
13 May 2021
From: 60 Second Interview
An agent has contacted Estate Agent Today to issue what he calls “an urgent alert” about the risk of Capital Gains...
06 May 2021
From: Breaking News
The MP leading a new parliamentary committee on the housing market says a radical reform of tax would help more people move...
06 April 2021
From: Breaking News
There’s a warning this morning that possible tax reforms to be unveiled next Monday could wreak huge damage on the property...
17 March 2021
From: Breaking News
You can always tell when Budget day is approaching. There’s lots of comment from every imaginable quarter about what the Chancellor of...
13 February 2021
From: Features
An MP demanding a root and branch reform of property taxation, including scrapping stamp duty, says the chance of fundamental reform is...
11 February 2021
From: Breaking News
A housing market analyst says stamp duty, for all its unpopularity within the property industry, may not be so bad after...
08 February 2021
From: Breaking News
Pressure is building for widespread property tax reform beyond short term issues regarding stamp duty. Many MPs in this week’s 65-minute special...
05 February 2021
From: Breaking News
Almost a year ago the government announced that estate and lettings agencies were to be included in the business rates relief...
02 February 2021
From: Breaking News
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is considering an extension to the current stamp duty holiday according to media reports today - and the...
17 January 2021
From: Breaking News
Here’s hoping you managed to have as good a Christmas and New Year as Covid rules allowed. Journalism in early January is...
02 January 2021
From: Features
The UK has topped the rankings for the highest property taxes as a percentage of overall taxation in the developed world...
09 December 2020
From: Breaking News
The secure Conservative victory in the 2019 General Election meant the property market in the sunlit uplands was set for a...
28 November 2020
From: Features
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has resisted changing any property taxes in the short term, but has used his Spending Review statement to...
25 November 2020
From: Breaking News
As expected within the property industry, the Chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday in his Summer Statement. This now means that...
25 July 2020
From: Features
Agents have spoken out angrily against any uncertainty in the market caused by government leaks about future stamp duty changes. In recent...
07 July 2020
From: Breaking News
A taxation institute is urging the government to delay Capital Gains Tax changes relating to housing transactions until the virus crisis...
03 June 2020
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has taken the unusual step this weekend of issuing its usual monthly asking price index on a Saturday instead of...
16 May 2020
From: Features
Boris Johnson is considering introducing a mansion tax for high value homes according to a Sunday newspaper. The Telegraph - citing two...
08 February 2020
From: Breaking News
The new government has announced that its first Budget is to be held on Wednesday March 11 - and it’s giving...
08 January 2020
From: Breaking News
With Brexit still unresolved, the domestic agenda has been pushed from the headlines by the seemingly overwhelming public and political discord...
07 December 2019
From: Features
Pressure is building on the Conservative party to honour its previous commitment to reform stamp duty for British buyers and sellers...
22 November 2019
From: Breaking News
One of the country’s most respected agents has advised the agency industry to treat Boris Johnson’s pledges with real caution. Black Brick buying...
24 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Our own industry’s upheaval over recent years has been no less dramatic than the turmoil at Westminster. The political earthquake has seen...
23 July 2019
From: Breaking News
A leading agent has suggested that some parts of the UK would face “a property exodus” if Boris Johnson’s proposals for...
15 July 2019
From: Breaking News
The number of cash buyers in London has recently plummeted by very nearly a fifth - and every other part of...
26 June 2019
From: Breaking News
It has been a long time coming, but the tenant fees ban, which forbids landlords and letting agents in England from...
13 April 2019
From: Features
HM Revenue & Customs is set to pocket £60m less from one of its property taxes than it forecast. An analysis of...
10 April 2019
From: Breaking News
Strutt & Parker says transaction levels in Prime Central London, already at a low ebb, plummeted a further nine per cent...
08 February 2019
From: Breaking News
Figures released by the government over the weekend show that 14,867 Help To Buy equity loans were taken out in the...
03 December 2018
From: Breaking News
The holiday home market may still be struggling in the wake of the three per cent additional homes stamp duty surcharge...
28 November 2018
From: Breaking News
The market is now over-supplied with homes to sell while at the same time demand is dipping and there are widespread...
14 November 2018
From: Breaking News
It’s Budget day and the government is once again on the receiving end of a blast from one of the country’s...
29 October 2018
From: Breaking News
A survey of owner-occupiers, landlords, property investors and insolvency practitioners has revealed that Brexit is the single biggest concern when it...
19 June 2018
From: Breaking News
100 years ago, 90% of the UK population rented a home. Today, that figure has flipped, and over two thirds are...
26 May 2018
From: Features
Recent void statistics have had me wondering how agents can juggle client and consumer demands in the face of the impending...
05 May 2018
From: Features
If you want to know whether buy to let, landlords and letting agents will be in the firing line for more...
28 April 2018
From: Features
At the start of February, Nationwide suggested that the housing market was picking up. Last week, RICS reported on its continued...
17 February 2018
From: Features
Last week’s news that the lettings fee ban is unlikely to materialise before next spring was perhaps to be expected. Ever since...
20 January 2018
From: Features
The housing industry has set out a list of demands in advance of the government’s hotly anticipated Autumn Budget on Wednesday. Despite...
18 November 2017
From: Features
British politics is extraordinarily volatile right now and the ongoing battle between austerity and anti-austerity, Leave and Remain, and Conservative and...
18 November 2017
From: Features
Central London’s housing market is showing a recovery from price falls which followed stamp duty changes in 2014 and 2016 according...
01 November 2017
From: Breaking News
Ten out of 14 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News say Brexit and economic uncertainty are likely to stall London’s housing market...
24 August 2017
From: Breaking News
When it comes to provoking anger in property professionals, taxation takes some beating. Press releases are still arriving berating the December...
01 July 2017
From: Features
Theresa May’s call for a snap general election on June 8 took many by surprise. But estate agents have been broadly...
03 June 2017
From: Features
A year ago, we were days away from the introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on second homes – a...
24 March 2017
From: Features
Looking ahead to the Spring Budget this week, the Chancellor Philip Hammond will be obliged to face up to the implications...
04 March 2017
From: Features
Over the past two decades, investing in buy-to-let has been a relatively easy way to make money, which is why so...
25 February 2017
From: Features
The buy-to-let market has gone through significant change in the last year and with the Budget just around the corner, what...
25 February 2017
From: Features
There is no doubt that 2016 managed to catch the world by surprise on more than one occassion. But will 2017 be...
14 January 2017
From: Features
Brexit and wider economic uncertainties worsened by changes to property taxation have forced the Council of Mortgage Lenders to cut its...
20 December 2016
From: Breaking News
An insolvency firm active in the property sector says that after a year of major taxation, legislative and economic volatility, many...
19 December 2016
From: Breaking News
Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...
17 December 2016
From: Features
It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...
19 November 2016
From: Features
Forecasts are a tricky business. And as I wrote in a recent Industry Views opinion piece, any prediction in the current...
19 November 2016
From: Features
The latest forecast for the housing market in 2017 and beyond includes a warning that Brexit uncertainty will create a slowdown...
10 November 2016
From: Breaking News
I hate to be a party-pooper, but one of the agency industry’s coming-up-to-Christmas traditions is going to be particularly hard to undertake...
22 October 2016
From: Features
A group of leading tax experts claims the stamp duty surcharge coming into effect one week from today will hurt the...
25 March 2016
From: Breaking News
Morgan Stanley says fears over a possible UK exit from the EU and other global economic uncertainty could lead to “a...
03 March 2016
From: Breaking News
The Chartered Institute of Taxation has called on government to introduce an exemption from the stamp duty surcharge for parents buying...
24 February 2016
From: Breaking News
What is the biggest change you’ve seen in the agency industry during your time at TPO? For me, the biggest change has...
18 December 2015
From: 60 Second Interview
Rightmove says the seasonal 1.1 per cent dip in average asking prices coming to market in the past month is the...
14 December 2015
From: Breaking News
Reports suggest foreign buyers may be losing interest in directly owning property in London and are in some cases increasingly attracted...
19 November 2015
From: Breaking News
Stephen Moss, CEO of Pring.co.uk the UK’s leading property investment search engine, takes a look at the impact of ‘Corbynmania’ on...
28 October 2015
From: Sponsored Content
The Centre for Economics and Business Research, a leading consultancy, says the drought in properties on the market is pushing up...
22 July 2015
From: Breaking News
Wednesday’s budget proved a grim viewing for those who have worked in the rental sector for some time and watched the...
10 July 2015
From: Features
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26 June 2015
From: Video Articles
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