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![Countrywide chief says housing market help should be 'tenure-neutral'](/img/default/eat.png)
Countrywide chief executive Alison Platt says she welcomes the government’s scrapping of stamp duty for first time buyers purchasing homes under...
27 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Stamp duty income to fall but house prices to rise, says official forecast](/img/default/eat.png)
Figures from the independent Office for Budget Responsibility suggest that house prices across the UK will rise by 3.1 per cent...
27 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Government tweaks 'additional homes' stamp duty surcharge](/img/default/eat.png)
The small print of the Budget has revealed that the government is to make minor changes to the ‘additional homes’ three...
24 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Stamp duty change - government defines 'the first time buyer'](/img/default/eat.png)
The government has defined the ‘first time buyers’ who will benefit from its immediate scrapping of stamp duty for FTB purchases...
23 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Not everyone in the industry likes the stamp duty change...](/img/default/eat.png)
Agents and even the Labour Party have backed the government’s scrapping of stamp duty for first time buyers’ purchases up to...
23 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Scepticism at long-term benefit of Budget housing measures](/img/default/eat.png)
Housing may have taken centre stage in the Budget but most of the industry appears to remain sceptical of whether the...
23 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Stamp duty reform, more new homes, possible longer tenancies](/img/default/eat.png)
Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond. From today,...
22 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Budget to reveal massive housebuilding programme ... again](/img/default/eat.png)
Another Budget, another pledge of new house building: it appears from statements made over the weekend by Chancellor Phillip Hammond that...
20 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Budget is make or break for London market, says investment firm](/img/default/eat.png)
The London residential market is at last improving - but faces a make or break situation with next week’s Budget according...
17 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancers want government hand-out to modernise house buying](/img/default/eat.png)
A conveyancing body says it wants the government to allocate “a small fund” in next week’s Budget to promote research into...
16 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![easyProperty backs switch in stamp duty for first time buyers](/img/default/eat.png)
easyProperty, the online agency, says stamp duty should be paid by sellers and not by first time buyers. The online firm’s head...
16 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Most senior Tory MP yet says she's open to stamp duty reform](/img/default/eat.png)
Nicky Morgan, a former Cabinet minister and now chair of the highly respected Commons' Treasury Select Committee, is the most senior...
15 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Former NAEA chief ignored by minister and asks: 'Is he in hiding?'](/img/default/eat.png)
Former National Association of Estate Agents president Simon Gerrard is renewing his campaign for the government to adopt two innovative reforms...
13 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Major finance company joins call for stamp duty reform](/img/default/eat.png)
The largest mutual life pension and insurance company in the UK has added its voice to growing calls for stamp duty...
08 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Stamp duty more pressing than house buying reform, government told](/img/default/eat.png)
The head of a major Oxford estate and lettings agency has written an open letter to Chancellor Phillip Hammond urging him...
07 November 2017
From: Breaking News
!['Stamp duty is UK's worst tax - scrap it to help housing market'](/img/default/eat.png)
Stamp duty on property sales is gumming up the housing market, stopping people from moving to the jobs they need, and...
31 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Government to hold housing summit tomorrow as it scrambles for ideas](/img/default/eat.png)
It has been revealed that the beleaguered government of Theresa May is to hold a summit at 10 Downing Street tomorrow...
16 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Stamp duty reform at heart of NAEA's ideas for next month's Budget](/img/default/eat.png)
Stamp duty reform lies at the heart of the submission by the National Association of Estate Agents ahead of next month’s...
10 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Stamp duty surcharge rakes in twice as much revenue as expected](/img/default/eat.png)
The government has admitted that the three per cent stamp duty surcharge has raked in twice as much as expected. In November...
13 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Budget 2017: Pleas for reform fall on deaf ears](/img/default/eat.png)
Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...
11 March 2017
From: Features
![Why no stamp duty reform? Angry agents ask Hammond](/img/default/eat.png)
Estate agents are angry that Chancellor Phillip Hammond made no attempt in his first Spring Budget to reform stamp duty -...
09 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Budget: No new property taxes - but landlords may be hit](/img/default/eat.png)
Chancellor Phillip Hammond has introduced no new property taxes in his Spring Budget - but a clampdown on those setting up...
08 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty: another leading agent wants it to be a seller's tax](/img/default/eat.png)
Jeremy Leaf, the London estate agent and former RICS residential chairman, is the latest industry figure to call for the government...
06 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Budget 2017 wishlist: Expectations from the property sector](/img/default/eat.png)
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
![Budget 2017: Should stamp duty be a tax on sellers, not buyers?](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agent and a building society have both advocated radical moves to reform stamp duty - and want Chancellor Phillip...
03 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agents' call for stamp duty reform backed by business chiefs](/img/default/eat.png)
The Treasury should review the impact of stamp duty on London's market given recent political and economic changes according to London...