As Chancellor George Osborne prepares his Autumn Statement to be delivered on Wednesday, a new survey shows changes to stamp duty are urgently wanted by the public as well as estate agents.
Over one third of people say they would like the government to change the price brackets for stamp duty bands, while almost as many want the duty to be scrapped completely.
Some 31 per cent of people would like a mansion tax on homes worth over £2m to be introduced while a similar number think the Help to Buy schemes should be extended.
It's understandable that home-movers want policies that will help them. While these policies could temporarily help more people, it's the house-building programmes that really need ramping up so that there are more affordable homes for people to buy in areas of high demand according to Miles Shipside, housing market analyst at Rightmove, which commissioned the research.
Only a small number of people say their home-moving decisions have been affected by the general election which is now less than six months away, so rather than waiting to see what happens they're instead deciding if it's the right time in their life and if they have the finances they need to move he says.
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