Finance
Autumn Statement: Stamp Duty hike for high-value homes
George Osborne rounded off this year's Autumn Statement with "a complete reform" of SDLT (which he called "one of our worst-designed and most damaging of all taxes"), ditching the slab structure in favour…
SDLT reform ‘overdue’ but will buyers at the top end ‘eventually take it on the chin’ or is it a ‘disaster for prime property sales’?
Property industry insiders weigh-in on George Osborne's overhaul of the property tax regime...
Crib Sheet: Autumn Statement 2015
This was a gloves off, political Autumn Statement in the run up to the 2015 election says Mishcon de Reya.
Crib Sheet: 2015’s CGT for non-residents
HMRC has confirmed a few things about next year's imposition of Capital Gains Tax for non-residents.
Balls announces mansion tax thresholds; admits he could be ‘a very, very unpopular man’ if Labour wins in May
"Of course Savills are going to try and scare everybody with a £50m house," said Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls as he outlined his ideas for mansion thresholds in Labour's proposed progressive tax on high-value…
110,000 ‘mansions’ would be caught in Labour’s proposed levy
110,000 homeowners - 86,000 of them in London - would have to pay Labour's mansion tax, says Zoopla.
Galliard and Cain Hoy’s £1bn JV creates London’s biggest house builder
An agreement between privately-owned developer Galliard Homes and new US private investment firm Cain Hoy Enterprises is set to create London's largest house builder, with a £3.4bn portfolio.
‘Use the current economic sunshine’ before the next global slump in 2018 – Grosvenor
The UK is on track to be hit by another downturn in real estate markets in 2018, just after the US, claims Grosvenor's Group Research Director Graham Parry.
A potted history of the mansion tax in quotes (2009-2015)
The idea of a Mansion Tax has been knocking around Westminster with intent for over five years now, since Vince Cable brewed up a scheme in 2009 to make taxation more fair...
LendInvest recruits mortgage veteran to run sales and marketing
Peer-to-peer property lending platform LendInvest has recruited an industry veteran as its new Head of Sales & Marketing.
Middle Class Problems: The reverberations of a mansion tax
The reverberations of a mansion tax will be felt all the way down the property ladder, says Will Hollest, as he points out even more flaws in the latest set of plans to tax high value homes.
New head of resi development for short-term lender
Bridging specialist Dragnofly Property Finance has recruited a new Head of Residential Development.