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The 2023 Autumn Budget, amongst its considerable 110 growth measures, contained an important announcement for the property sphere, with £3 million...

A lawyer has called for Help to Buy to be resurrected in the Autumn Statement. Paul Sams, head of property at Dutton...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a dramatic future income tax cut, changes to National Insurance thresholds and scrapping VAT on more...

In the Autumn Budget on Wednesday 27 October, very few impending tax hikes were revealed by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak –...

At first glance, Rishi Sunak’s Budget speech earlier this week didn’t offer much from a property perspective. But digging down a little...

Lost in the noise of yesterday’s social care announcements, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has named October 27 as his next Budget Day...

There is growing speculation that a raft of tax proposals to be unveiled next week will include reform of Capital Gains...

If you’re in any way connected to estate agency all it takes is a quick glance at Facebook or LinkedIn to...

Mortgage approvals - a key indicator of short-term activity in the housing market - beat expectations in June according to Bank...

There will be a two per cent stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of UK investment properties by non-resident overseas buyers...

Any day now we’ll hear the date for the Autumn Budget: it may be delayed to wait for a Brexit deal...

It’s holiday time: schools have broken up, quite a few estate agents are taking time off, and the MPs are in...

Figures from the Treasury suggest that the annual revenue from stamp duty for the year to the end of March is...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

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

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

Whenever any research is released, part of me can’t help thinking of that old adage, ‘lies, damn lies and statistics’ especially...

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

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