Tag: Stamp Duty
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Monthly Scottish Property Market Update – April 2011
Read the article: Monthly Scottish Property Market Update – April 2011Summary – April has been a slow month and it’s partly Prince William’s fault… April is traditionally a good month for the property market, with longer days and better weather leading to more property sales and more people putting their properties on the market. However, April 2011 has been a slightly unusual month though owing,…
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April 2010 – Property Market Update – General Election Special
Read the article: April 2010 – Property Market Update – General Election SpecialProperty Market Update – April 2010 – General Election Special! It’s been understated, dignified throughout and in no way resembled children chucking mud at each other in a playground: yes, I’m talking about the General Election. Mercifully we are almost at the end of the campaign and in less than a week it will be…
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February 2010 Edinburgh and Lothians Monthly Property Market Update
Read the article: February 2010 Edinburgh and Lothians Monthly Property Market UpdateHmmm…so I had a meeting with a lady today who works with a lot of estate agents and she tilted her head sympathetically to one side and asked how things were going. She clearly expected the news to be dire! She seemed genuinely surprised to hear that things were going really well. The news she…
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March 2010 – Edinburgh and Lothian Property Market Update
Read the article: March 2010 – Edinburgh and Lothian Property Market UpdateI’m going to divide this Property Market Update into two sections. First, a general market update which hopefully, as always, helps to give an ACTUAL take on what is happening in the property market rather than headline-grabbing statistics that can often be read in the newspapers. Second, I’ll cover the new Stamp Duty regime, announced…
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Budget 2012 – What Do the Stamp Duty Changes Mean for Property Buyers and Sellers in Scotland?
Read the article: Budget 2012 – What Do the Stamp Duty Changes Mean for Property Buyers and Sellers in Scotland?George Osborne yesterday revealed his Budget for 2012. The Budget included an increase in the 0% rate of tax and cuts to corporation tax, all of which are very welcome from a business and personal point-of-view. However, given that we sell properties in Scotland for our clients, it’s the impact of wider changes to property-related…
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Goodbye Stamp Duty, Hello Snappily-Titled Land and Buildings Transaction Tax. Roll On 2015!
Read the article: Goodbye Stamp Duty, Hello Snappily-Titled Land and Buildings Transaction Tax. Roll On 2015!Goodbye Stamp Duty…? Kind Of. I have had to replace many an overused soapbox over past few years whilst property prices have risen yet the Stamp Duty thresholds have remained largely the same. It is a system that I feel is fundamentally unfair and which, from a purely property market related point of view, has…
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