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The UK Government should make better use of property taxes to deter foreign buyers, boost property supply and raise tax revenue,...

The government should reverse some of its latest energy efficiency policies so owners, landlords and tenants can enjoy cheaper fuel bills The...

The property market is broken, Housing Secretary Michael Gove acknowledged yesterday. Despite the Conservative Party being in power since 2010, Gove insisted...

There has been an understandable focus on things other than Government since the death of Queen Elizabeth was announced, but Prime...

Earlier this year, we ran a story asking whether agency would ever embrace a four-day week. This came ahead of the...

Research suggests there are substantial numbers of older Londoners using too-large properties but unable to downsize because of a lack of...

The government has been warned that its much-talked about levelling up agenda is ‘doomed to fail’ without major reform of the...

A think tank has proposed scrapping Council Tax and stamp duty in favour of an annual property levy.  The Institute for Public...

An unexpected claim was made over the weekend - that the long-running stamp duty holiday was not, after all, behind the...

A highly influential think tank says stamp duty should be scrapped for all house purchases once and for all. Alexander Hammond of...

A group of MPs has suggested the government consider a “proportional property tax” to replace the current council tax, in a...

Our long-awaited ‘Freedom Day’ approaches. From Monday all of the restrictions, introduced since the Covid-19 pandemic made an impact across the...

The Covid-19 crisis has been marked by so-called high-wealth households amassing savings and benefitting from rising house prices far more than...

A think tank wants the government to scrap stamp duty and replace it with an annual property tax based on capital...

A think tank claims that ‘urban flight’ - when people leave cities and head for towns and villages - is merely a...

One of the chief figures behind Brexit and Boris Johnson’s role as London Mayor is now advising that stamp duty should be...

A housing market analyst says stamp duty, for all its unpopularity within the property industry, may not be so bad after...

A new paper from a think tank warns that many low income owner occupiers risk losing their homes when the mortgage...

Hefty increases in taxes on the purchase and sale of holiday homes and buy to let properties are expected in the...

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...

A think tank says the stamp duty holiday introduced a week ago is understandable and may be helpful to the housing...

Conservatives have been lining up to criticise a mansion tax which may be introduced on expensive homes to fund infrastructure improvements...

Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...

An ex-housing minister and ex-Brexit secretary says he wants to radically change taxes on buy to let capital appreciation to help...

Labour is proposing two methods of controlling house price rises should it win the next General Election - and the ideas...

Campaigning groups like Generation Rent and Shelter like to think they are simultaneously edgy and radical; likewise some think tanks believe...

A think tank is suggesting that micro-homes could be the answer to London’s shortage of available homes for first time buyers. The...

A slew of property experts and commentators have put the blame on Brexit for a surprise drop in house price growth...

Young people whose parents have property wealth are now almost three times as likely to be homeowners by the age of...

A housing academic claims that while popular belief has it that homes are getting smaller, the typical living space in England...

A left-leaning think tank is urging the Bank of England to manipulate the housing market to ensure house prices don’t rise...

Estate Agent Today is 10 years old this weekend. We hope you’ll agree that’s a cause for celebration and a great...

It went largely unreported when news broke last week but now the suggestion that home owners should pay a surcharge if...

Fewer mortgages were approved for home buyers last month than in the same month a year ago according to figures from...

A 15-month research project says HMRC should do more to engage estate agents in recognising the importance of complying with anti-money...

Nicky Morgan, a former Cabinet minister and now chair of the highly respected Commons' Treasury Select Committee, is the most senior...

Stamp duty on property sales is gumming up the housing market, stopping people from moving to the jobs they need, and...

Employers and government should introduce auto-enrolment of monthly salaries to allow people aged 18 to 40 to save for deposits on...

A think tank says the penalties now levied against second home owners - such as the stamp duty surcharge and phasing...

Whisper it quietly but it appears that NIMBY-ism is on the wane as increasing numbers of voters are recognising the need...

The Adam Smith Institute, a right-wing think-tank, has blasted the campaigning charity Shelter over its allegations of land-banking by house builders in...

House price falls triggered by weaker economic growth and a drop in economic confidence following the EU referendum may not actually...

With the new Formula One season now well underway, we delve into the fast lane to take you on a whirlwind...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the free market Centre for Policy Studies think tank says the proposals put forward by Labour’s London Mayor candidate...

Sadiq Khan, Zac Goldsmith or whoever else wins the London Mayor election this spring should have the power to levy stamp...

A centre-right think tank founded by Tory former planning minister Nick Boles is urging a review of stamp duty to link...

An influential think tank says the levying of Capital Gains Tax on sales would deter volatile house price rises and could...

The Bow Group - a think-tank that was previously a solid backer of the Tories but has recently flirted with UKIP...

A pressure group says cities across England and Wales - including mid-size cities as well as the big urban conurbations -...