stamp duty holiday

• 38% said they would never consider moving to London
• Brits don’t want to buy houses in Birmingham (37%) and Glasgow (34%) either
• 89% dream of living in York which is more than anywhere else in the UK
• Neighbours put almost half off buying a house (46%)

The property market has boomed throughout the past 18 months with people moving away from...

SDLT holiday saving hotspot - South East homebuyers saved £1.2bn in stamp duty

Research by MoveStreets, the property portal designed for the mobile generation, has revealed just how much money the nation’s homebuyers saved thanks to the stamp duty holiday and which region ranks top for the largest saving.

Last week, the government released its latest house price index...

The latest property market analysis by London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves , has revealed the full extent of how the stamp duty holiday impacted the capital’s property market, saving London homebuyers over £1bn since it first launched at the start of July last year.

Last week, the government released its latest house price index providing the first concrete view of...

25 years of stamp duty - homebuyers see 490% tax cost increase

The latest property market analysis by London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves , has revealed that in the last 25 years, the cost of stamp duty has increased by 490% for the average homebuyer.

Now that the stamp duty holiday is done and dusted, the average homebuyer in England will once again pay the...

Most active property price market thresholds revealed

The latest research by Birmingham estate and lettings agent, Barrows and Forrester , has revealed just how influential the stamp duty holiday seems to have been in shaping property market activity since the start of the year.

Barrows and Forrester analysed property market transactions across every county of England and Wales since...

As the final deadline approaches, research by the estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk , has found that just shy of 500,000 homebuyers across England are set to have saved over £3bn in stamp duty as a result of the stamp duty holiday.

GetAgent analysed every property purchase to have completed across England since 8th July 2020 when the stamp duty holiday was first introduced...

Research by the estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk , reveals that the stamp duty holiday has increased the price of first-time buyer homes by an average of 11.7% in England in the last year, and by as much as 31.5% in some areas of the country.

The stamp duty holiday was introduced as a financial incentive to keep the housing market buoyant during the pandemic and thus...

Managing Director of Barrows and Forrester , James Forrester, commented:

“It’s to be expected that the astronomic rates of house price growth seen since the introduction of the stamp duty holiday will now start to subside as we approach the final deadline. But don’t be fooled into thinking the market will now deflate like a cheap birthday balloon.

Buyer demand is extremely...

The latest research from Warwick Estates has revealed which pockets of the national new build market still offer homebuyers the opportunity of a stamp duty saving right up until the final September deadline.

While the initial stamp duty holiday for homes valued up to £500,000 has now passed, homebuyers purchasing up to the sum of £250,000 will still pay no stamp duty right up until...

Research from the national estate agent, Keller Williams UK , has found that high rates of house price growth due to the stamp duty holiday have pushed the average house price in 25 areas of England above the final holiday threshold of £250,000.

While the first extension of the stamp duty holiday has now ended, there is still the opportunity of a stamp duty free purchase on homes up...