Policy
Required Reading: The 2022 Autumn Statement for HNWIs & business owners
Mishcon de Reya highlights the key points and policies from yesterday's Autumn Statement - noting that what wasn't announced is 'arguably more interesting and revealing' than what was in Jeremy Hunt's…
‘It could’ve been worse’: Property industry reactions to the Autumn Statement 2022
Chancellor Hunt has slashed CGT allowances, time-limited Kwarsi Kwarteng's Stamp Duty cuts, and subjected many more people to the top rate of Income Tax - but the run of tax increases come will come into…
Chancellor Hunt hikes taxes; plans to roll back recent Stamp Duty cuts in 2025
Today's Autumn Statement represents 'a substantial tax increase', admits Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, targeting 'those with the broadest shoulders'.
Tom Bill on what the property market needs & expects from this week’s Autumn Statement
Capital Gains Tax rather than stamp duty has been the subject of speculation ahead of Thursday’s announcement
Abrahmsohn: I see the property market moving sideways for a while
Current predictions of a long and drawn-out recession are overdone, writes Glentree boss Trevor Abrahmsohn.
Charlie Wells: How planning reform could provide a welcome boost for the economy
'I have at least seven clients I have bought houses for who are waiting to press the button on big projects. All of them are waiting on planners for one thing or another.'
Tom Bill: What Rishi Sunak means for the UK property market
'How far the new PM can wind back the clock is a significant question for the UK housing market.'
Gove resurrects 300,000 housebuilding target
Significant planning reforms are back on the table as the Housing Secretary confirms the government is standing by its 2019 manifesto pledge to build 300,000 new homes a year by the mid-2020s.
Gove returns to Housing & Levelling Up brief; Hunt stays as Chancellor
New Prime Minister has appointed familiar faces to key positions in the Cabinet.
Sunak to be Prime Minister: Property industry reactions
Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak is moving into 10 Downing Street, after Penny Mordaunt and Boris Johnson dropped out of the latest Conservative Party leadership contest.
Truss resigns as Prime Minister
Another Tory leadership election will take place 'within the next week'.
Charlie Ellingworth: Chickens coming home to roost
This is a time of maximum gloom, writes Property Vision's Charlie Ellingworth, but property markets are nuanced - and there is no one size fits all...