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Stamp duty

June 2024

  • Keir Starmer speaks into a microphone. Rachel Reeves stands beside him. Behind them are people wearing orange hi-vis vests

    Stamp duty for first-time buyers would rise in 2025 under Labour government

  • For sale sign outside a house

    Sunak pledges to keep stamp duty threshold at £425k for first-time buyers

March 2024

  • Aerial view of houses in Sydney

    Stamp duty: would Victoria be better off with a land tax instead?

    As the state government considers reforming its contentious stamp duty, here are the benefits and pitfalls of replacing it with an annual tax

February 2024

  • This Box is for the Living Room<br>Taken from inside a car, a senior woman passing a cardboard box to her husband while they smile at each other. They are moving into the house behind them, that they have just bought together.

    ‘It makes moving pointless’: why stamp duty is the biggest downside to downsizing

  • Around 55,000 households are choosing to downsize each year, for different reasons. Last spring, research by estate agency Savills found the number of the people looking to downsize had risen markedly since September 2022.

    UK homeowners: is there anything that is preventing you from downsizing?

December 2023

  • a couple hold hands with wedding rings pictured

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    Can we save £15,000 stamp duty on our home purchase if we get married sooner?

    We both own homes and I have been told being unmarried will leave me liable to extra tax

October 2023

  • Residential properties near Aylesbury

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    Should I use my lifetime Isa to buy a house to rent out or wait until I leave the forces?

  • to let signs

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    Should we add our children’s names to our buy-to-let mortgage?

July 2023

  • Terrace houses in London.

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    Can we avoid stamp duty on a second house if my husband buys it in his name?

    I bought a property before we met, which we hope to rent out when we buy a bigger home

June 2023

  • for sale signs

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    If I’m separating from my partner do I count as a first-time buyer?

  • Aditya Chakrabortty

    Britain is the Dorian Gray economy, hiding its ugly truths from the world. Now they are exposed

    Aditya Chakrabortty

May 2023

  • Row of terrace house in East Sussex

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    How would a home swap affect stamp duty and inheritance tax?

    We plan to exchange deeds and move into my mother-in-law’s new £700,000 house and she will switch to our £600,000 one
  • Daniel Andrews

    Daniel Andrews rules out replacing stamp duty with an annual tax in Victoria

    Premier says he is ‘unconvinced’ that new tax will provide benefits as he flags planning system changes
  • Terrace properties in Bristol

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    We are unmarried and plan to buy a house but what about capital gains tax and stamp duty?

    I own a property, which is in a family probate trust, and she inherited one, and we aim to sell them and use the proceeds

April 2023

  • A Purple Bricks for sale sign outside a house in Slough, Berkshire

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    We want to buy a second home. What type of mortgage is best?

    My partner and I – he is a first-time buyer – would use the property at weekends and for holiday lets

March 2023

  • A house in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    If we sell our property abroad and move back to Britain, should we rent or buy?

    We wonder whether a mortgage should wait while we build up UK bank accounts and credit scores

February 2023

  • Flats in York, England, in 2020

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    I could ‘staircase’ the 30% share of my flat to 100% but how would it affect stamp duty?

    Paying SDLT for the entire property was not within budget back then and I am unsure if I count as a first-time buyer

January 2023

  • Man house for sale Melbourne

    Queensland and Victoria resist push to replace stamp duty with land taxes

  • A 'sold' real estate sign is seen outside a high-rise apartment block in the suburb Kirribilli

    NSW stamp duty refunds expected to attract 2,500 applications as land tax scheme launches

December 2022

  • A block of flats in Budapest, Hungary

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    Do we pay higher stamp duty on buying a UK home if we keep our EU flat?

    My husband and I are in Budapest and we want to get a property in Britain for about £325,000
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