The stamp duty holiday came and went with much fanfare. For many buyers it represented a rare opportunity to make some savings on the purchase of a new home, but the phasing out of the stamp duty holiday will also likely mean that activity in the residential buy market will start to cool off over the coming months.
For many buyers, it may be that purchasing a property is becoming increasingly untenable as house prices have soared significantly over the past year (with the stamp duty holiday quite likely a chief architect of that).
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