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The best news for the property sector to come from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget statement came not from any fiscal...

The Spring Budget last Wednesday rounded out to be mostly a disappointment for the property industry, but it was also perhaps...

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has almost halved its house price forecasts after another relatively quiet fiscal update for the...

As 2023 trundles towards the buffers and we look forward to our Christmas break, it is something of a seasonal phenomenon...

House prices will fall 7.6% 'peak to trough' by the end of 2024, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has claimed...

As sure as night follows day, so our industry sets out a wish list of tax changes which it hopes the...

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has increased its expectations of a house price decline. The OBR, which keeps an eye on...

The Government is being urged to help homeowners go green and reintroduce mortgage interest relief as a way of boosting rental...

New year, old worries: what’s happening in the housing market? We’ve asked experts and collated forecasts, 15 in total. On the one...

Is it really just a year ago that we were nervously wondering whether yet another Christmas would be Covid-affected? Little did we...

Auction House UK has reported a 10% annual rise in sales under the hammer despite the challenging market. The brand said its...

House prices are set to fall by 9% over the next two years, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) claims. The OBR,...

Mortgage rates look likely to fall after Rishi Sunak’s appointment as Prime Minister but analysts are still unsure how far the...

A Bill to bring the Government’s Stamp Duty reductions into legislation reached its second reading in the Houses of Parliament this...

A property expert has warned that the Bank of England’s gloomy economic forecasts and last week’s rise in interest rates could...

Official forecasts suggest house prices will rise for five years at least, although at well below the rate of growth seen...

It’s been revealed that the government did consider a stamp duty RISE which would have been announced in this week’s Budget. The...

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

A leading agency chief suggests there will have to be substantial bargaining between buyers and sellers as the stamp duty holiday cliff...

The next Budget will be held on March 3 next year - in time for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to change his...

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, better known as the furlough scheme, was introduced by the chancellor Rishi Sunak in March to...

There’s good news from the think-tank the Resolution Foundation, which says the threat of negative equity because of the Coronavirus crisis...

Many young people are stuck unable to purchase their first home even if house prices fall in the wake of the...

Tens of billions of pounds of new taxes should be levied through a Capital Gains Tax imposed on main homes, not...

The former Chancellor George Osborne - architect of drastic stamp duty reform - has come out fighting to defend the tax...

A forecast suggests HM Revenue & Customs will rake in no less than £8.8 billion in Capital Gains Tax in 2018...

One of the most influential select committees in parliament has told the government that it needs to do more - much...

Mystery surrounds a claim made by Prime Minister Theresa May that the stamp duty changes for first time buyers made in...

Figures from the independent Office for Budget Responsibility suggest that house prices across the UK will rise by 3.1 per cent...

An analysis of data from HM Revenue and Customs reveals that inheritance tax paid by UK families has topped £5 billion...

By Wednesday April 19th, a UK citizen, on an average income, had earned £7,789 from their day job so far this...

The government has admitted that the three per cent stamp duty surcharge has raked in twice as much as expected. In November...

The Office for Budget Responsibility, which released its latest economic forecasts on Wednesday, has adjusted its prediction for UK house prices…again.  It...

Over the past two decades, investing in buy-to-let has been a relatively easy way to make money, which is why so...

Yesterday George Osborne delivered his eighth budget as chancellor, announcing an extra £3.5 billion in spending cuts by 2019-20. The Office for...

The Treasury has admitted that stamp duty ‘take’ is expected to soar from £11.2 billion this year to £17.8 billion in...