First-time buyers reap benefits of stamp duty rise

3rd March 2017

More first-time buyers have got on to the property ladder since the introduced of a 3% stamp duty hike for buy-to-let landlords and second home owners. Since then, between April and December, first-time buyer numbers rose by 7.8% to 268,100, compared to the year before, while the number of landlords buying homes fell more than a fifth to 165,500.

Daily Mail (28/02/2017)