Taxes

Stamp Duty Land Tax Bill receives first House of Lords reading

Posted by on 16/01/2015 at 8:54 pm

  Published by TSO – Have Your Say on Saturday, 16 January 2015   The ‘Stamp Duty Land Tax Bill (HLB 80) has received its first reading in the House of Lords, and has begun its journey through the Lords to be passed into law. The Bill makes changes to the way that Stamp Duty […]

Stamp Duty changes – Will it boost UK property sales?

Posted by on 14/12/2014 at 10:33 am

  Published by OPP Connect on Thursday, 11 December 2014, By Adrian Bishop   UK real estate demand has fallen to an 18-month low, but the new Stamp Duty reforms are set to boost future sales by up to 5%, say industry professionals. Estate agents expect a sales boost of between 2% and 5% from […]

Higher property taxes will cool the housing market

Posted by on 31/10/2014 at 10:47 pm

  Published by MoneyWeek on Monday, 27 October 2014 Merryn Somerset Webb   I have a friend who has been trying to sell a central London flat for eight months. Another has had a large house on the market for six months. They can’t understand why these one-time money machines aren’t selling. What happened to […]