Stamp Duty Holiday Introduced

Stamp Duty Mortgage Advice in Nottingham

To help get the property market back on its feet in post-lockdown, the Government has put into action a stamp duty holiday which will stay in place up until the 31^st March 2021.

Stamp Duty often acts as a barrier to most people who choose to buy a home, so with this new Government implementation, it should allow the Property Market to be more accessible to a wider range of the general public during the current times.

This holds hope from the Government that the temporary move will allow 9 out of 10 people who buy a home to be exempt from paying Stamp Duty.

Here’s how these changes may affect you:

First Time Buyers

Stamp Duty normally doesn’t affect First Time Buyers in Nottingham as they are already exempt up to £300,000. The holiday will only apply to properties up to the amount of £500,000, so if you are a First Time Buyer buying at that maximum figure then you would save £10,000 in Stamp Duty.

Home Movers

The ones who will mostly benefit from this will be the ones moving home. If you are moving home in Nottingham and the purchase is completed before March 31^st 2020 then you will not pay Stamp Duty at all as along as the purchase price is <£500,000. The predicted average that the Governments think the Stamp Duty will fall by is £4,500 but for prices around £500,000, the savings will be £15,000.

But To Let Investors/Additional Homes

The Stamp Duty surcharge still applies in this scenario. This was brought in so that more first-time Buyers in Nottingham gained more opportunity to step onto the Property Ladder but Buy to Let Investors in Nottingham will still be better off than before.

Under the old system, if you bought an investment property for £250,000, you’d have paid 3% on the first £125,000 and 5% on the second £125,000, resulting in a stamp duty bill of £10,000. During the holiday you will only pay 3% stamp duty on the whole purchase price, meaning a bill of £7,500.