“It’s a totally different world to the tax-crunch of property investment” explains Coles, who adds that property investors ...

“Then when you come to sell, there’s capital gains tax to worry about. The annual allowance has dropped to just £3,000, and ...

Slashing stamp duty to incentivise older Aussies to sell their properties and free up homes is something the nation’s leading ...

The rate of housebuilding has dropped by 10% since Labour came to power in July, deepening the task of increasing ...

With Labour allowing the Stamp Duty tax to revert to pre-2022 levels, first-time buyers will no longer benefit from the same ...

You will incur stamp duty when buying property. But the rates you pay (and if you pay at all) depend on whether it is your first property purchase or whether it is a second home or investment ...

If you're buying a property and intend to let it out or use it as a second/holiday home, you will have to pay a different rate of stamp duty from other buyers. The buy-to-let stamp duty calculator ...

This means that once again, first-time buyers will begin paying stamp duty on property worth more than £300,000 and home movers will start paying stamp duty on property worth more than £125,000.

The need for speed to complete before the looming Stamp Duty deadline saw auction activity spike in the final part of 2024, ...

Currently, first-time buyers do not pay any stamp duty on homes costing up to £425,000, while the threshold for other buyers is £250,000. But from 1 April 2025, the threshold for first time buyers ...

Many are rushing to buy, bidding more for properties in order to purchase in time to get a lower stamp duty bill. But because the property market is falling, it could make more sense to wait until ...

The change is expected to more than triple the proportion of first-time buyers who pay stamp duty, according to estate agency ...