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...“With all moving fees and, especially, stamp duty, you need to be doing a meaningful downsize otherwise the money you are left with is marginal,” says Roarie Scarisbrick, partner at buying agency Property...
...The plan, to develop “human-scale streetscapes emulating the scale and quality of neighbourhoods such as Clifton in Bristol or Marylebone in London”, bore the obvious stamp of Create Streets’ thinking....
...In his last couple of years he went six nights out of seven, usually accompanied by one of his children, sitting at the right-hand corner table, “like a stamp”....
...On Clifton Road, just up from Warwick Avenue Tube station, a few businesses provide certain essentials: organic coffee, sourdough bread and posh ready meals....
...The recent move to reform stamp duty land tax in England and Wales, and the growing clamour in Scotland for land ownership reforms, are two indications of what to expect....
...“But by failing to reduce stamp duty, as was speculated may occur, the chancellor may have missed a second trick....
...For example, in Bristol, move outwards from campus, from Clifton and Redland to Staple Hill and Downend.”...
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