Reeves’ Tax Reforms Cost UK £541m in Property Sales Revenue
Highlights Sales of properties worth more than £5m in England fell 14 per cent in the 18 months after the...
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Reeves’s stamp duty raid backfires as Treasury loses £500m in receipts
Rachel Reeves’s stamp duty raid has backfired after a £541m fall in tax receipts from property sales more than £5m,...
Downsizers seek £108k equity release to justify move
Homeowners in the UK would need to release an average of £108,516 from their property to consider downsizing worthwhile, according...
Why scrapping stamp duty could unlock the stalled housing market
"There's a lot of things that could change, but I would say probably the thing that would be the easiest...
The retirement risk homeowners are taking with their property wealth
With warnings that the cost of borrowing is set to rise, further choking off demand, homeowners should no longer be...
Cost of climbing the property ladder hits as much as £50,000: Yopa – Mortgage Strategy
The average homeowner in England faces an estimated £15,513 in costs when upsizing, according to research by Yopa – rising...
Londoners paying £3.1bn too little in property tax, says report
Londoners are underpaying billions of pounds in property taxes, while the rest of the country is overpaying in return, according...
‘Grossly unfair’ property tax system benefits London at expense of rest of England
The Resolution Foundation has called on the government to set out a roadmap for reforming residential property taxes. In...
Burnham should cut stamp duty for downsizers to unlock UK housing supply
Burnham, who assumed the premiership in July, publicly ruled out scrapping stamp duty during a visit to Portsmouth, telling reporters:...
Burnham warned by former PM not to raise property taxes
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has been warned by a former PM not to increase property taxes in next month’s Budget....
