Chafford Hundred first-time buyers can now buy their first Chafford Hundred home using 5% deposit mortgages. Yet higher mortgage rates could see Chafford Hundred buyers paying a lot more each month for the privilege?

South Ockendon and Aveley homebuyers were celebrating last week’s extension of the Stamp Duty holiday by the Chancellor until the end of September together with the introduction of 5% deposit mortgages from April. What effect will this have on South Ockendon and Aveley house prices and demand for private rented property?

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Stamp Duty Holiday for properties up to £500,000 will be extended from 31st March 2021 to the 30th June 2021; and to ensure we don’t have a cliff edge, from 1st July 2021, the Stamp Duty Holiday will apply only on properties up to £250,000 until the end of 30th September 2021.

“With UK property prices rising by 49% in the last 8 years, but wages by just under 12%, many have put some of the blame for the housing crisis on the Baby Boomer generation. Have Aveley and South Ockendon baby boomers wrecked the Aveley and South Ockendon property market for millennials, holding younger families back from buying their own home?

“The average British homeowner moves every 16 years 5 months according to official statistics. These appear to refute a common hypothesis that British neighbourhoods are becoming more transitory and show that, once you have succeeded in buying a property there isn’t much motivation to move again… or is there another story behind the stats?

“Over the last six months, the South Ockendon Property Market has been flourishing. So with prices rising on the back of this demand, everything appears to looking up for homeowners and landlords. However, with the spectre of the Stamp Duty holiday ending on the 31st March 2021, could this kill the Grantham property marketing in the Summer?

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With most South Ockendon families homeschooling their children in lockdown and the forthcoming stamp duty holiday deadline on the 31st March 2021, fewer properties have been coming onto the market since the New Year. This has prompted a 56% drop in the supply of South Ockendon and Aveley homes for sale compared to when it should be a lot more.

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“Stamp Duty is a tax most property buyers pay when buying their home or buy-to-let investment, but in July 2020, buyers were given a Stamp Duty tax break until April 2021. Yet, now around a third of a million UK property buyers are delayed in property sales and they could miss out on these savings if the tax break is cancelled.