Treasury considers scrapping Non-Dom status

'All we hope for is a reduction in SDLT,' says one London estate agency chief - 'however in reality I suspect there is more chance of stumbling across a unicorn in Regent’s Park!'

Jeremy Hunt will outline the government's latest round of tax policies in early March, ahead of a probable General Election later in the year.

Inheritance Tax payments will more than double over the next ten years, suggests the Institute for Fiscal Studies, as it pitches a significant rejig of the death tax regime.