House prices increased by 1.0% month-on-month in April Annual rate of price inflation moves into double digits for first time since June 2007 House prices are 10.0% below the October 2007 peak Headlines March 2010 April 2010 Monthly index * Q1 ’93 = 100 330.6 334.0 Monthly change* 1.0% 1.0% Annual change 9.0% 10.5% Average [...]
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NAEA: Success of Stamp Duty Campaign a major victory for first time buyers
THE National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) today welcomed as a major victory Alistair Darling’s decision to raise the threshold of stamp duty land tax for two years. The NAEA has long campaigned for a major rethink on stamp duty – which it believes to be a tax on aspiration. Today in the final Budget [...]
Effects Of The End Of The Stamp Duty Holiday – Decision Homebuyers Report
London, England (Jan 11, 2010) – Decision Homebuyers, one of the UK’s most trusted and flexible home buying specialists, comment on the impending end of the stamp duty holiday and the effects it will have on the current housing market conditions. Surveyors in the West Midlands, East Midlands, Wales and Scotland predict that the end [...]
USA – Another Big Gain in Existing-Home Sales as Buyers Respond to Tax Credit
Washington – Existing-home sales rose again in November as first-time buyers rushed to close sales before the original November 30 deadline for the recently extended and expanded tax credit, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Existing-home sales – including single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops – rose 7.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate1 [...]
