Andy Burnham has ruled out stamp duty changes in this year’s Autumn Budget while Angela Rayner has again rejected rent controls, narrowing landlord hopes of a near-term policy reset.
Zoopla has called for the 5% stamp duty threshold to be lifted from £250,000 to £500,000, arguing the current structure is dragging on transactions and…
MPs have told ministers to launch a consultation on stamp duty reform by the end of 2026, while also calling for stronger powers to bring long-term empty homes back into use.
Stamp duty receipts rose to £15.2bn in the 2025-26 tax year, underlining how sharply property taxation now bites across the market as landlords and other…
Property transactions fell 6% year-on-year in February, with HMRC data suggesting landlords face an increasingly narrow window for portfolio expansion as stamp duty costs bite…
Property investors paid £995 million in stamp duty last month – an 11 percent increase on January – as HMRC figures reveal the ongoing cost…
A decade of stamp duty surcharges on additional property purchases has left the private rental sector 2.2 million homes smaller than it would otherwise have…
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has reinforced her party’s support for abolishing stamp duty during a visit to an estate agency in Surrey, signalling that the…
The number of £1 million homes across Great Britain has fallen 9% from the 2022 peak, with higher stamp duty and council tax reforms blamed for the decline.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged to abolish Stamp Duty if her party wins the next election — a headline-grabbing move that could reshape the…