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Stamp Duty holiday drives surge of interest in commuter belt properties
Rightmove has reported a dramatic increase in househunting activity at higher price brackets since the announcement of the SDLT holiday up to £500k.
Government orders review of Capital Gains Tax
This CGT review could be "the starting pistol for a tax grab ahead of the Autumn budget later this year", suggest analysts.
SDLT Tips & Traps: On navigating the stamp duty minefield
Rishi's holiday won't make much of a dent in many prime purchasers’ SDLT bills, but it pays to be aware of some of the other lesser-known rules around this complex tax; Edward Burton, Sean Randall & Olivia Mi…
New platform promises to ‘thrust property deals into the digital age’
White-label software is designed to 'dramatically reduce completion times and boost agent revenue'
Chester Square townhouse transacts at £26m
One of the few £20m-plus deals to be lodged with the Land Registry in recent months.
A ‘blip’ or ‘a once in a generation event’? Mixed opinions in Garrington’s July property market review
"Opinions are increasingly divided as to whether the property market is enjoying a temporary blip in activity due to the released pent-up demand, or whether what is being witnessed is a ‘once in a generation’ eve…
Digital investment has paid off in a crisis, says Engel & Völkers
International real estate giant 'safely navigates' a torrid few months, and still expects transaction volumes to top 20 billion euros in 2020.
£4m price tag for the house that custard built
Heron Creek in the picture-perfect Cornish village of St Mawes was originally built for the Bird family in the 1920s
Government owned car parks ‘have potential to deliver 110,000 new homes across the country’
Knight Frank reveals an "extremely compelling" case for transforming carparks into housing.
Reapit’s Barker steps down to join Micheal Bruce’s ‘Launch B’ start-up
Gary Barker has left Reapit after 13 years to join Purplebricks-founder Michael Bruce's "data led, disruptive & Greenfield start-up" in Birmingham.
Demand for development land ‘remains robust’
"Many new [residential development] sites are being soft marketed to test the appetite in the market," reports Savills, "and some have been launched now avoid competition with other sites later in the…
What awaits the resi auction market in a post-Covid world?
Bridging the gap between buyer expectations and seller sentiment will be one of the major challenges in the months to come, writes Richard Adamson...