Q3 transaction rally boosts Stamp Duty receipts
HMRC took £2,353m in residential SDLT receipts in Q3; that's 25% more than in Q2 - but about the same as for Q3 last year
Stamp duty theatrics descend into farce
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'
PCL price rally ‘peters out’
Prices slipped by 0.6% in September to leave the annual fall at 1.8%, reports LCP, with transaction volumes now running at their lowest ever level...
‘Transaction levels indicate that the markets are relatively stable during this time of economic & political uncertainty’ – Strutt & Parker
Transaction volumes in PCL grew by 5.3% from H1 2018 to H1 2019, says Strutt & Parker, driven by a quite dramatic surge in activity under £2m
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