With the stamp duty holiday now over, research by the estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, has found that almost 500,000 homebuyers across England are set to have saved more than £3bn in stamp duty as a result of the tax break.
GetAgent says that it analysed every property purchase to have completed across England since 8 July 2020 when the stamp duty holiday was first introduced and how much was saved in stamp duty, as well as the number of transactions to have paid no stamp duty at all.
The study found that during the initial extended phase of the stamp duty holiday between 8 July 2020 and 30 June 2021, 482,292 homes were sold across England, with no stamp duty payable up to £500,000.
Consequently, as many as 83% of these transactions – 402,381 – paid no stamp duty at all on their purchase and, in total, homebuyers saved a huge £2.85bn in stamp duty tax.
During the second phase of the stamp duty holiday extension, the price threshold at which no stamp duty was payable was reduced to £250,000.
But the 123,941 estimated transactions to have completed during this time, 45% of homebuyers – 55,381 – still paid no stamp duty on their purchase with a total of £224.8m thought to have been saved across the market as a whole.
In total, this means 76% of homebuyers – 457,762 – have paid no stamp duty as a result of the holiday, with a total saving to the tune of £3,076m.
| Category | Days | Total number of transactions | Transactions to pay no stamp duty | Estimated to pay no stamp duty % of all transactions | Total SDLT saving
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| SDLT holiday (£500,000 threshold) – 8th July 2020 to 30th June 2021* | 358 | 482,292 | 402,381 | 83% | £2,850,265,486 |
| SDLT holiday (£250,000 threshold) – July 1st 2021 to 30th September 2021** | 92 | 123,941 | 55,381 | 45% | £224,823,515 |
| SDLT Holiday (All thresholds) 8th July 2020 to 30th September 2021 | 450 | 606,233 | 457,762 | 76% | £3,075,089,001
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| Data sourced from the Land Registry Price Paid data records for England on residential property sales, excluding those listed as ‘other’.
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| *Initial stamp duty saving calculated using price paid records between 8th July 2020 and 30th June 2021 (latest available)
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| **Secondary stamp duty saving forecast based on previous market data | |||||
These transaction numbers are very low – looks like GetAgent need to GetANewCalculator.
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You beat me to it Ostrich17. GetAGent should stick to online dating – they are profoundly rubbish at self-promotion.
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Either I’m missing something, or these numbers bear no relevance to actual transactions totals.
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It would be my suggestion to EYE that before publishing figures from other sources that they request to see the datasets and methodology behind the PR puffery.
This is nothing more than back-of-a-fag-packet maths – and fatally flawed in many respects.
YET ANOTHER ‘article’ built around dodgy statistics. By any chance is there a bull***t quota to meet?
There’s a pattern emerging here where any old rubbish from certain sources is deemed “newsworthy” – and I fear it will reflect badly upon the industry.
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