The proportion of first-time buyers purchasing homes priced over £300,000 has increased, according to Barclays (BARC.L), suggesting that the housing market has adjusted to stamp duty changes. The bank ...

The proposal by Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch to abolish stamp duty on home purchases has drawn significant attention as a potential remedy for the UK’s housing affordability crisis.

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Britain’s biggest housebuilders are urging ministers to reverse the recent hikes in stamp duty to help first-time buyers. The end of a temporary tax break in April saw the amount first-time buyers ...

Oct 14 (Reuters) - Britain's major homebuilders are urging the government to eliminate stamp duty and establish a long-term deposit scheme for first-time buyers to boost market sentiment, Bellway's ...

Beneath the shade of the old banyan trees on Reid Avenue, the spirit of Royal College Colombo lives in paper, ink, and memory. The annual Philex exhibition, organized by the Royal College Philatelic ...

If you’re looking to mail a letter anytime soon, you’re in luck. Instead of the usual twice-yearly increases in stamp prices, the U.S. Postal Service has decided to forego increasing the price of ...

In his Chaska, Minnesota, studio, Jim Hautman added a few finishing touches to his latest painting of a bobcat in the wilderness. "The scene of this one is in southwestern Montana," he said, while ...

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James Hautman has established a duck dynasty. Hautman, an artist from Chaska, a Twin Cities suburb, is the winner of the 2025 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in ...