All Budget articles
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NewsSpring Budget: Failure to cut business rates is ‘desperately disappointing’
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget detailed plans to halve inflation, grow the economy and get debt falling, but industry figures were disappointed by its failure to cut business rates.
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Spring Budget: Hunt ‘missed the opportunity’ to reduce embodied carbon in retrofitting
The chancellor has been accused of missing the opportunity to introduce tax incentives for reducing embodied carbon in retrofit and refurbishment projects in this year’s Spring Budget.
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Spring Budget: £500m boost for West Midlands housing and regeneration
The Deeper Devolution Deal for the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) confirmed in chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget has secured £500m to support housing and regeneration across the region.
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Spring Budget: There cannot be economic growth if housing market is not fixed
The Spring Budget focused on the government’s plans to boost economic growth, but property experts say there cannot be sustainable economic growth if the housing market is not fixed first.
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Spring Budget: Financial barriers to retrofitting must be removed to reach net zero
Property experts have urged the chancellor to remove financial barriers to retrofitting residential and commercial buildings ahead of his Spring Budget tomorrow as net zero targets look unreachable.
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Watkin Jones blames Kwarteng’s mini-budget for annual revenue and profit falls
Student accommodation and build-to-rent group Watkin Jones has blamed Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss’ mini-budget on a last-minute hit on the group’s annual figures after revealing falls in both revenue and profit for its last financial year.
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Jeremy Hunt’s 7% social housing rent cap met with ‘relief’
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s decision to cap social housing rent increases at 7% in England has been met with a mix of relief and concern by landlords in the sector.
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Winkworth raises profit forecast despite higher mortgage costs after mini-Budget
In a trading update for the 10 months to the end of October, estate agency group M Winkworth told investors that the residential property market remained strong in the third quarter.
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Autumn Statement: Chancellor unveils plans for stability, growth, and public services
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said in his Autumn Statement today that he aimed to restore stability to the economy, protect high-quality public services and build long-term prosperity for the UK.
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Property sector hails Gove’s return
Michael Gove has been heralded as a “vigorous politician” and an “effective agent of change” by mostly enthusiastic property industry heavyweights following his return to the role of housing secretary.
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Insight
Hunt takes charge as Truss lingers
They say a week’s a long time in politics and boy, this has been one of those weeks.
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Burning questions on rates
The response from shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, after new chancellor Jeremy Hunt gave his “economic update” to the Commons on Monday, perfectly captured the calamity created by September’s mini-Budget.
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Insight
Conference season brings some joy
Editor: Kwasi Kwarteng’s Budget aside, the development sector might come away from the Conservative Party Conference with some reason to be cheerful, especially if recent soundings from the DLUHC team at fringe events come to fruition.
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It is vital housing remains accessible to everyone
Editor: The mini-Budget sent shockwaves through the property market. As mortgage rates rocketed, the inverse was true for the hopes of property buyers.
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Stamp duty changes survive as Jeremy Hunt reverses nearly all mini-Budget tax cuts
Liz Truss’s latest chancellor Jeremy Hunt has today reversed nearly all the tax cuts announced in last month’s mini-Budget.
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Mini-budget U-turn inbound as Hunt to replace Kwarteng as chancellor
Jeremy Hunt has been named as the new chancellor of the exchequer after prime minister Liz Truss fired Kwasi Kwarteng in a bid to settle market volatility following the recent mini-budget.
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Investors unshaken by mini-Budget turmoil at Savills sale
Auction house says £36m raised at 4 October sale, up 10% year on year, shows strength of investor demand.
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Insight
Time to keep calm and carry on
“When you’re feeling in the dumps/Don’t be silly chumps/Just purse your lips and whistle, that’s the thing, and…/Always Look on the bright side of life.”
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Q&A: Inspired Villages’ Jamie Bunce on the later living firm’s ambitions
The chief executive of the later-living developer outlines the business’s targets and reacts to the mini-Budget.
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Mini-Budget aftermath: mortgages vanish and yields spike
Fintech firm Twenty7tec tracks the number of mortgages available in the UK and had been recording a steady decline in the options offered to borrowers over the past six months.
