{"id":1691,"date":"2025-02-17T15:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2025-02-19T08:58:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:58:26","slug":"uk-housing-market-starts-to-feel-the-drag-from-tax-change-rightmove-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/uk-housing-market-starts-to-feel-the-drag-from-tax-change-rightmove-says\/","title":{"rendered":"UK housing market starts to feel the drag from tax change, Rightmove says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A run-up in asking prices for newly listed homes in Britain has lost steam ahead of an increase in property purchase taxes, according to a survey published on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Property website Rightmove said the average price of properties put on the market rose by 0.5 per cent between January 12 and February 8 to 367,994 pounds (US$464,666), a weaker-than-usual increase for the time of year and a slowdown from a strong rise of 1.7 per cent in the previous four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with the same period a year ago, asking prices were 1.4 per cent higher.<\/p>\n<p>Colleen Babcock, Rightmove&#8217;s head of partner marketing, said the March 31 end of the temporary tax break &#8211; for buyers in England and Northern Ireland of cheaper homes and for first-time buyers &#8211; was having an impact.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A run-up in asking prices for newly listed homes in Britain has lost steam ahead of an increase in property purchase taxes, according to a survey published on Monday. Property website Rightmove said the average price of properties put on the market rose by 0.5 per cent between January 12 and February 8 to 367,994 [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}