17 h. ago Autumn Budget 2025: Is Rachel Reeves really going to scrap stamp duty next week?

Property experts agree tax changes are needed to unblock the stagnant housing market, yet London’s high prices and dearth of affordable new homes are also significant barriers to buying

Politics

17 h. ago Government rakes in £12.3bn from stamp duty in just 10 months despite buyers and sellers being 'in limbo' thanks to the Budget

The Government is continuing to pull in increasing amounts of revenue from stamp duty receipts, new figures show.

Economics

35 h. ago London Home Buyers Have Paid £25 Billion in Stamp Duty in the Last 10 Years

London Home Buyers Have Paid £25 Billion in Stamp Duty in the Last 10 Years  Mansion Global

Economics

44 h. ago Nationwide sees mortgage lending dip after stamp duty rush but market ‘healthy’

The building society bought rival lender Virgin Money last year, becoming the UK’s second largest mortgages and savings provider.

Economics

45 h. ago London homebuyers have paid almost £25billion in stamp duty in last decade

Successive Chancellors have ramped up stamp duty rates on more expensive homes

Economics

3 d. ago Autumn Budget 2025: Could Rachel Reeves scrap stamp duty tax?

Property experts agree tax changes are needed to unblock the stagnant housing market, yet London’s high prices and dearth of affordable new homes are also significant barriers to buying

Economics

4 d. ago Kemi challenges Chancellor to follow Tories lead and axe Stamp Duty at the Budget after new polling reveals widespread support forscrapping the tax

The Tories are proposing an end to the charges for primary residences - amounting to a £4.5billion tax cut paid for by trimming the welfare bill.

Economics

5 d. ago Britain's broken tax system is killing the economy! Dan Neidle on how to fix the mess

Dan Neidle has called for scrapping stamp duty, cleaning up inheritance tax and a rethink of property levies to simplify things.

Events

8 d. ago Cost of moving house surges 27% in a year thanks to stamp duty hike

People buying and selling property across England now have to fork out around £17,831 in upfront expenses, up from closer to £14,000 a year ago.

Politics

9 d. ago Channel 4 star urges MPs to abolish stamp duty in 'passionate' speech

'We’re damaging our first-time buyer housing stock'

Politics

9 d. ago Kirstie Allsopp calls for stamp duty to be abolished in Reeves’ Budget

The Location, Location, Location presenter told a committee she believed the tax is ‘damaging’ housing stock

Politics

9 d. ago TV expert Kirstie Allsopp warns Brits are 'in a panic' amid rumours of fresh property taxes at Rachel Reeves' Budget

The TV presenter, who fronts Location, Location, Location, warned speculation about new measures the Chancellor might bring in was having a profound impact.

Events

9 d. ago Stamp duty should be abolished, TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp tells MPs

She told the Treasury Committee that people ‘should be able to move house cheaply and easily’.

Politics

2 w. ago Price per square foot: the most and least expensive London boroughs for homebuyers by floor space

Where buyers get most floorspace for their money — and where they will get least

Economics

2 w. ago Scrap tourist tax, university foreign student levy and cut stamp duty on shares to boost London, Reeves urged

Scrap tourist tax, university foreign student levy and cut stamp duty on shares to boost London, Reeves urged  London Evening Standard

Society

2 w. ago Scrap tourist tax, university foreign students levy and cut stamp duty on shares to boost London, Reeves urged

The Chancellor could also create new jobs and more homes by supporting new transport schemes for the city, say London bosses

Society

3 w. ago Reeves says she should have checked rental licence had been obtained as letting agent apologises – UK politics live

No 10 releases redacted emails between Reeves’ husband and letting agentRachel Reeves’ rental error: standards adviser looking at new informationRobert Peston, ITV’s political editor, says he thinks it is a mistake for the Conservatives to be saying Rachel Reeves should have to resign over the rental licence error. He explains why in a post on social media. Here is an extract.Kemi Badenoch’s call for Starmer to sack Reeves, for failing to register her family home when she rented it on moving to Downing Street, lowers the bar quite significantly for sackable offences by ministers. I am not certain all her shadow cabinet colleagues will thank her.The point is that there is a clear distinction between Rayner’s failure to take stamp duty advice and Reeves’s failure to register her home with the council for rent. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Four out of five homes hit by a Labour mansion tax 'would be in London and SE'

Latest Budget rumours suggest homeowners could face 1% annual bill on properties worth more than £2million

Events