{"id":66150,"date":"2017-09-12T06:59:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T23:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/data-shows-extra-property-stamp-duty-no-brake-on-soaring-prices-agents-say\/"},"modified":"2017-09-12T07:19:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T00:19:31","slug":"data-shows-extra-property-stamp-duty-no-brake-on-soaring-prices-agents-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/data-shows-extra-property-stamp-duty-no-brake-on-soaring-prices-agents-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Data shows extra property stamp duty no brake on soaring prices, agents say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nThe number of transactions requiring home buyers to pay an extra stamp duty surged to a record high in August, suggesting the measure intended to cool the property market has been losing effectiveness, according to property agents.<br \/>\nThe Inland Revenue Department said Monday that 3,411 residential transactions were required to pay an extra stamp duty during the month, exceeding the previous peak of 3,298 deals in March.<br \/>\nIncome from buyers\u2019 stamp duty and double stamp duty dropped 9.3 per&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/property\/hong-kong-china\/article\/2110725\/data-shows-extra-property-stamp-duty-no-brake-soaring\" target=\"_blank\">Data shows extra property stamp duty no brake on soaring prices, agents say<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; The number of transactions requiring home buyers to pay an extra stamp duty surged to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-hcW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":148343,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/moving-home-here-are-the-keys-to-completing-before-stamp-duty-rises\/","url_meta":{"origin":66150,"position":0},"title":"Moving home? 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