All Budget articles – Page 8
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OnlineGovernment backs Olympic cultural hub with £141m
Funding to support development of Olympicopolis cultural hub on Olympic park, with Victoria and Albert Museum and Sadler’s Wells to open new centres on site.
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OnlineOsborne set to announce review of business rates
Autumn Statement expected announce review of business rates, as chancellor also gives government backing to case for Crossrail 2
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OnlineGovernment unveils move to plan, commission and sell new homes
Government will pilot ‘direct commissioning’ of homes on new town site in Cambridgeshire and has cut the affordable homes obligation on small sites.
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OnlineBicester to become second new garden city
Bicester in Oxfordshire is to become the UK’s second new garden city, with up to 13,000 new homes due to be built on the edge of the town.
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OnlineBudget 2014: Money for flooding but not green property
The government plans to increase investment in flood defences by £140m over the next two years and create a £200m fund to fill potholes.
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OnlineBudget 2014: Osborne's £800m housing package
The chancellor has announced funding totalling £800m to increase the supply of new homes.
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OnlineBudget 2014: Stamp duty hit for homes over £500k
Companies buying homes worth more than £500,000 will be hit with a new 15% stamp duty requirement, as the government continues to clamp down on tax avoidance.
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OnlineAutumn Statement: The industry reacts
Measures announced today to alleviate the burden of business rates on companies have been dismissed by many in the property industry as little more than “tinkering around the edges” of a broken rates system.
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OnlineAutumn Statement: Osborne tightens up planning
The chancellor has announced a package of measures to further streamline the planning process.
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OnlineAutumn Statement: government to clear 95% of business rates appeals
The government is to consult on reforms to clear a backlog of business rates appeals, as tipped by Property Week last month.
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OnlineAutumn Statement: New "reoccupation" rates relief
Companies moving into long-term empty properties will be granted relief from business rates, the chancellor announced today.
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OnlineAutumn Statement: government to provide £1bn of loans for stalled resi development
The government has announced plans to provide £1bn of loans to unblock housing development on regional sites.
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OnlineAutumn Statement: Osborne introduces capital gains tax for overseas investors
Chancellor George Osborne has outlined plans to hit overseas investors in London residential with capital gains tax from April 2015.
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OnlineVideo analysis: The spending review and property
Today’s comprehensive spending review contained several key announcements for the property industry.
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OnlineSpending review: The industry reacts
Despite George Osborne’s strict line on efficiency savings and tightening the public purse strings, the property industry has reacted with cautious positivity to today’s spending review. Most have welcomed the extra spending on infrastructure and the boost for Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs). Below are a selection of responses.
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BlogsEmphasis on infrastructure offers a glimmer of hope
As is often the case with major Government announcements, the national media were so extensively briefed ahead of the Spending Review that surprises were few and far between.
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OnlineRelease of public assets to raise £660m by next year
The government will have raised £660m through the sell-off of public land and property by next year, according to documents published alongside this afternoon’s Spending Review.
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OnlineSpending review: chancellor gives "green light" for HS2
The chancellor has promised to give the “green light” to High Speed 2 and indicated his support for a second Crossrail scheme in today’s Spending Review statement.
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BlogsBudget housing package cannot prompt flood of new stock
So the perpetual bridesmaid finally made it to the altar. How did boring old housing steal all the headlines in Wednesday’s budget statement from the perennial favourites: health and education?
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NewsOsborne hangs hopes on housing stimulus
Yet another raft of financial packages announced in Wednesday’s Budget
