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Starting at 6.00am I spoke to Phil Williams on BBC FiveLive on Weekend Breakfast about the end of the two year Stamp Duty holiday. Then on to BBC Three Counties Radio, BBC Radio Berkshire and then finishing at 8.10 with a chat with BBC Radio Wales. Phew!!
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A quick look at the bigger property portals suggests that there are more than 2,000 homes currently for sale with guide prices of more than £2m. In his Budget the Chancellor has decided that buying something at this level is now going to cost you 2% more by way of Stamp Duty Land Tax. What’s more, if you [...]
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A live interview looking ahead to Wednesday’s Budget which we now expect will deal with so called ‘stamp duty avoidance’ was followed by pre-record spots for the BBC 10 o’Clock News and a piece for Channel 4 News. Here’s the live interview with the lovely Maxine Mawhinney.
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On BBC Breakfast this morning the tragic story of my neighbour Violet Grainger and the fire that destroyed her house a year ago. Trying to save money she had cancelled the £300 a year insurance premium and although it is believed that the fire started next door, because negligence has not been proved the fire [...]
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In amongst some excellent and innovative ideas in last years Housing Strategy was something that looked like it had been left in a draw in the Department for Communities and Local Government by it’s founder, the over-promoted John Prescott. Not to be confused with the similar sounding ‘FirstBuy‘ scheme the Dynamic Duo of Messrs Grant [...]
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Up early on a Sunday morning to talk to Phil & Anna at 6am about the Halifax raising their Standard Variable Rate. Help provided the night before by the lovely Melanie Bien and a crib sheet from the CML all helped make it sound like I knew what I was talking about. Did I pull [...]
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An early start gets me to Tv Centre to join Simon Jack on Radio 4 flagship Today Program with David Newnes of LSL Property Services ‘down the line’ from a studio in Derby. Whats happening to the market? Where next for prices and what about house building. Quote of the day? “Members of the National Trust [...]