stamp duty
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Housing Market
Stamp Duty revenue slumps for second year in a row
Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) receipts have sunk by 24% between 2023 and 2024 with revenue falling from £15,360 million to £11,615 million.
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Housing Market
Big spike in property sales around Budget and now listings pick up
Research by Chestertons and Yopa reveals a jump in house sales before and after Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Budget and an increase in listings since then.
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Housing Market
Failure to extend SDLT relief will ‘scupper housing market recovery’
GetAgent survey shows 38% of agents believe that the lack of a Stamp Duty relief extension will have a significant impact on the health of the property market.
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Regulation & Law
Opposition grows to abolishing Stamp Duty for first time buyers
Homeowners are calling on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to renew Stamp Duty relief for first time buyers or risk stalling the market.
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Regulation & Law
OECD calls for Government to axe Stamp Duty
The international body for economic development, concerned about the UK's burgeoning debt has, contrarily, urged Reeves to abolish Stamp Duty.
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Regulation & Law
Propertymark and Rightmove urge Labour to keep FTB Stamp Duty threshold
First-time buyers are already struggling to get on the housing ladder and reducing the threshold to £300,000 will add an average of £3,675 more to their costs.
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Housing Market
Stamp Duty cuts must be priority for Chancellor, urges big lender
Coventry Building Society says Chancellor Rachel Reeves needs to include Stamp Duty changes in her first Budget.
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Latest property news
Charge CGT on primary residences to halt house price spiral, says agent
Henry Pryor believes taxing unearned profits on owning your home is a fair way to raise revenue – but that Stamp Duty should be scrapped.
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Housing Market
ELECTION: Half of voters who are worried about housing to back Labour
After 14 years of Tory housing policies and 16 ministers, voters who consider housing a 'dealbreaker' back Keir Starmer, a new poll reveals.
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Housing Market
OPINION: Labour’s decision to roll back Stamp Duty reliefs is odd
Nigel Lewis had time to reflect on the party's decision to make it more expensive to buy a home after March next year during a chat on Russell Quirk's Talk TV show.
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