Budget 2010 – Stamp duty measures ignore the real issues

While there can be little doubt that they will be popular among aspiring first-time buyers, it is fairly clear that the Chancellor’s stamp duty measures do nothing to resolve the real problems facing the housing market – overvaluation, a lack of mortgage credit and a moribund house-building sector. Nor is it obvious that they will give much of a fillip to activity levels.

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