Government firms up plans to raise stamp duty for overseas buyers

Sajid Javid distances himself from the idea of switching the stamp duty tax burden from buyers to sellers, after commentators accuse the new Chancellor of 'killing the property market'

"We haven’t yet seen any significant increase in properties falling through so it looks like most are going ahead regardless," says Tim Bannister, Rightmove’s Director of Property Data.

The old adage of location, location, location is being replaced by value, value, value, according to these experts...