Many landlords operating Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) properties are doing so without the correct licence in place, risking heavy fines, as well as potentially putting their tenants’ safety at risk, warns…

Deputy First Minister John Swinney has announced a series of changes to the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) – which will replace stamp duty for homebuyers in Scotland – following Chancellor…

Ed Balls, the Shadow Chancellor, has been forced to defend Labour’s plans for a mansion tax on homes worth more than £2 million after it was described as “crude” by Lord Mandelson…

There has been a significant increase in the volume of housing permissions by local authorities in the last year, according to new figures published by the Home Builders’ Federation (HBF) and Glenigan.…

Every buyer, seller and estate agent in the land would have liked to see Stamp Duty abolished but we all knew that wouldn’t happen. However, George Osborne, The Chancellor of the Exchequer,…

It has been more or less been killed off by the Chancellor's new Stamp Duty regime - but did the mansion tax ever have much currentcy?