HM Revenue & Customs has issued a warning to home buyers over firms claiming they can get them a refund on stamp duty. The scam is most likely to crop up when someone buys a 'doer upper' property ...

Since April, many first-time buyers have once again been subject to stamp duty after the temporary higher thresholds were allowed to lapse.

The Federal Government’s 5 per cent Deposit Scheme was sold as a game-changer for first-home buyers. But behind the fanfare lies the real affordability killer – stamp duty. This “hidden tax” is ...

But the main problem with stamp duty is that it is a tax on buying and selling houses – so on moving. It is a barrier to both downsizing for the old, and upsizing for the growing family. As such, it ...

Housing market experts emphasised the importance of home-buyers taking specialist advice and double-checking paperwork.

Talk of the Chancellor replacing stamp duty and taxing homes over £500,000 is likely to result in a slower market over the next few months, Zoopla has warned. Zoopla said: “The risk is that this ...

According to reports, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is “looking at” scrapping the existing stamp duty system – where buyers pay a ...

Posting on X, Dan Neidle, founder of Tax Policy Associates, said that in situations where people are buying a house and ...

Higher stamp duty costs led to a drop-off in property market activity earlier this year, data shows - as more housing tax ...

However, in certain postcodes, such as the W1K postcode of Mayfair and St James’s, where the sold price equates to £4.5mn, ...