Rightmove calls for stamp duty reform

Rightmove calls for stamp duty reform

Property listings site says ministers should adjust zero-rate bands to boost housing affordability

Rightmove demands stamp duty overhaul

Rightmove has called on the government to overhaul stamp duty thresholds to help first-time buyers get on the property market. The UK’s largest property platform urged ministers to increase the thresholds at which the tax kicks in, to reflect house price rises that have occurred in recent years and “help mobility across many parts of the property market”. In an announcement released alongside its half-year results, the portal blamed April’s retu…