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![Stamp Duty Challenge - Tories pledge 'no change' but will Labour follow?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/StampDuty--2-400x310.png)
The housing market has suddenly become a major part of the General Election campaign as a result of a challenge thrown...
07 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty Change from Tomorrow - reminder to agents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/StampDuty-Image--400x310.png)
As a result of an announcement back in March, in the government’s final Budget, a major change to stamp duty comes into...
31 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Interest rate cuts this year, suggests IMF - but it isn’t all rosy…](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageRatesdecrease_400x310.png)
The International Monetary Fund has suggested that the British economy could accommodate three interest rate cuts this year, with Kate cuts...
22 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Election Gimmick Stamp Duty Cut would trigger evictions - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/StampDuty1_400x310.png)
A stamp duty cut in the run up to a General Election would see house prices go up and evictions soar,...
15 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Build To Rent set to suffer from Hunt’s stamp duty changes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/StampDuty1_400x310.png)
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Budget is set to hit Build To Rent. The British Property Foundation is reacting to news that Multiple dwellings...
08 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![National Insurance cut offers chance to identify tenancy fraud](/upload/images/shutterstock_549937093.jpg)
Tenant reference and tech supplier The Lettings Hub claims 25 per cent of fraudulent documents submitted by would-be tenants were identified...
08 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![PropTech sector gives a thumbs down to lacklustre Budget](/upload/images/shutterstock_562475698.jpg)
The PropTech sector has mostly agreed with the rest of the industry in its view on yesterday’s Budget - that it...
07 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rental Sector Tax Grab - leading agency boss speaks out](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
A figure in one of the country’s highest profile lettings companies has hit out at a government proposal to penalise the...
05 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Nationwide demands four tax changes to help the private rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Top%20tips%20property%20investment%20rent-calculation-1-400x310.png)
Nationwide has taken the unusual step of using its buy to let lending arm - The Mortgage Works - to make...
05 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Hunt’s lack of support for rental sector still subject of criticism](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/ToLetBoard-400x310.png)
Last week’s Autumn Statement - which fell short of expectations in terms of help for the private rental sector - is...
27 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tax and Benefit Changes announced to impact housing market](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Help%20to%20buy%20equity%20loan.jpg)
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has used his Autumn Statement to reveal measures affecting both the rental market and the wider property industry. The Local Housing...
23 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Big rise in tax receipts as Chancellor ponders Autumn Statement](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxMan-400x310.png)
Inheritance Tax totalled £4.6 billion for the HM Treasury between April and October - that’s £500,000 up on the same period...
22 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Pooled Client Accounts - Government admits problem with banks](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House_pound-400x310.png)
It looks as if the government is accepting that there is a problem with how banks treat Pooled Client Accounts -...
09 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Want to give advice to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The Autumn Statement on November 22 is the traditional vehicle for the Chancellor to introduce tax change - but now you...
27 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Client Account Closures - Chancellor urged to stop banking madness](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is being urged to act now to stop the problems banks are creating for letting agents. Following a...
08 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Mortgage Mayhem: will six months breathing space stop housing crash?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Sharp%20rise%20in%20property%20transaction%20fall-throught%20cost%20MortgageApplyNow_400x310.png)
Concern remains that the mayhem surrounding the mortgage market may yet trigger a housing market crash. At the start of the weekend...
26 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Chancellor’s Crisis Meeting - pleas for rental help mount](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Tenant_Dispute-400x310.png)
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is today charing a crisis meeting of mortgage lenders, as calls mount for him to take action to...
23 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Shock interest rate decision by Bank of England](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BankofEngland_2-400x310.png)
The Bank of England has announced its latest change in base rate, which is used by most lenders to determine interest...
22 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agent tells Gove: cease attacks on private rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
A prominent lettings agent in the north of England has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove urging him to cease attacking...
22 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Shelter angry at Hunt’s ‘nothing about housing’ Budget](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Misc/Homeless-400x310.png)
Campaigning charity Shelter is angry with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt over his Budget While most in the property industry have expressed relief that there...
16 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Will Chancellor Hunt’s Budget dare help the rental sector?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/FinanceCalculator-400x310.png)
A prominent lettings agency chief wants a raft of measures to help the private rental sector and investors in next week’s...
08 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Energy support for agencies and other firms to be cut from April](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EcoHome-400x310.png)
The government is, as expected, scaling back support for businesses with energy bills from April. Under the new and less expensive scheme,...
10 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Jeremy Hunt fires starting gun on next spring’s Budget](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Fine-2-400x310.png)
The next Budget, setting out government tax and spending plans, will be held on March 15 next year. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says...
23 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![CGT tax change - It could have been worse, say agents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Tax-Image-400x310.png)
Just about every agency that has commented on yesterday’s Autumn Statement are in agreement - changes to Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance...
18 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental Sector hit by surprise Capital Gains and Stamp Duty tax changes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has delivered his long-awaited Autumn Statement - the fiscal event which he says will lead to “all of...
17 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Tax turmoil to dominate Autumn Statement warns leading agency](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/_JeremyHunt%20_400x310.png)
One of the country’s most respected lettings agencies says tax is dominating the agenda ahead of Thursday’s Autumn Statement from Chancellor...
15 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Interest Rate Rise - lettings sector braced for bad news](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageRates1_400x310.png)
There’s widespread concern that the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, which meets tomorrow, is to unveil a 0.75 per cent...
02 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents welcome Hunt tax change - but who knows what’s coming?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
Propertymark’s chief executive Nathan Emerson has welcomed the dramatic government U-turn on taxes - but most importantly has retained the stamp...
18 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty - Chancellor Hunt reveals what happens next](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Jeremy-Hunt%20_400x310.png)
The new Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, says the limited cut in stamp duty in England and Northern Ireland announced in the mini-Budget...