{"id":72591,"date":"2017-11-23T02:07:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T19:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/budget-2017-hammond-masks-gloomy-outlook-with-stamp-duty-cut\/"},"modified":"2017-11-23T02:15:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T19:15:33","slug":"budget-2017-hammond-masks-gloomy-outlook-with-stamp-duty-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/budget-2017-hammond-masks-gloomy-outlook-with-stamp-duty-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2017: Hammond masks gloomy outlook with stamp duty cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nChancellor calls it a \u2018balanced\u2019 budget and uses eye-catching offer to first-time buyers to counter Britain\u2019s deteriorating economic prospectsPhilip Hammond placed a stamp duty cut for first-time buyers at the heart of his budget on Wednesday as he sought to mask Britain\u2019s deteriorating economic prospects by pledging to \u201crevive the homeowning dream\u201d.Delivering what was widely regarded in Westminster as a make-or-break budget, the chancellor announced a modest increase in funding for the NHS, and announced \u00a315bn of measures to tackle the housing crisis. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2017\/nov\/22\/budget-2017-hammond-masks-gloomy-outlook-with-stamp-duty-cut\" target=\"_blank\">Budget 2017: Hammond masks gloomy outlook with stamp duty cut<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Chancellor calls it a \u2018balanced\u2019 budget and uses eye-catching offer to first-time buyers to counter&#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-72591","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-iSP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":72557,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/stamp-duty-cut-for-first-time-buyers-hopes-to-fix-housing-market\/","url_meta":{"origin":72591,"position":0},"title":"Stamp duty cut for first-time buyers hopes to fix housing market","date":"November 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Chancellor more than doubles the tax threshold to \u00a3300,000 in his budget, effectively exempting 80% of all new buyers Scrapping stamp duty for four out of five first-time buyers was part of a package of measures designed to fix the housing market announced by the chancellor, Philip Hammond. 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