Stamp duty housing concerns in the UK 2015

The statistic shows the influence that people attribute to changes to the stamp duty in the United Kingdom (UK) as of 2015. With 49 percent, the majority of respondents claimed that the fall in the stamp duty rate from 64 percent in 2014 to 51 percent in 2015 would not make any difference when it came to their housing decisions.

The impact of changes in the stamp duty rates according to the United Kingdom (UK) adults as of 2015

Characteristic	Share of respondents
The changes will not make any difference	49%
Make moving up the property ladder more affordable	22%
Make buying my first home more affordable	11%
The changes will discourage me from buying/moving	4%
Don't know	14%

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Release date

March 2015

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

March 2015

Number of respondents

2,184 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Data are displaying the share of respondents, who consider particular issues to be very serious or somewhat serious.

The Homeowner Survey 2015 was carried out by Home Owners Alliance, together with BLP Insurance and in cooperation with myhomemove.com.

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