Monday, Apr 05, 2010
"Modern homes provide less living space than the inside of a Ford Galaxy people carrier"
Times: Stamp duty tax break fails to tempt first-time buyers
First-time buyers are not yet benefiting from the Budget stamp duty tax break on homes up to £250,000, although the concession was supposed to ease their path on to the housing ladder before the general election. Jeremy Leaf, of Leaf & Co, a London-based estate agency, said that first-time buyers were not booking viewings because they did not have the 20 per cent deposits required for a competitively priced loan.
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