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Re:Homelessness rises faster where rent exceeds a third of i... by rich_sasha on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:06PM (#29785921)
On a 500k house, stamp duty is 2%, and that’s already an expensive house (stamp duty is progressive). So it’s not that big, certainly for a first time buyer away from London (no stamp duty at all on first 125k).

Council taxes are effectively based on property price, in a weird kind of way.

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Re:Homelessness rises faster where rent exceeds a third of i... by mFixman on Monday January 03, 2022 @07:47PM (#29789451)
If you already bought a home then selling it and moving to a new one with the same price is extremely expensive, specially if the housing market increased its prices faster than your salary (which is true for almost all UK homes since the 2008 crisis).

Making it expensive for home owners to move constrains supply and raises house prices even more.

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