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Stamp duty holiday will provide little help to first-time buyers

Labour’s proposal for a three year stamp duty holiday for first-time buyers will distort the market and will not address any of the market’s deeper failings. That won’t help FTBs. Indeed, it could lead to new buyers paying inflated prices for homes.

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