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Experts have criticised Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget for failing to live up to his promises to nurture a “new approach for a new era”. Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget has outlined the Liz Truss Government’s early economic policy. The Chancellor presented MPs with a policy package designed to help rejuvenate the UK’s economy while addressing the cost of living crisis.<\/p>\n
While much of what the Government proposed was welcomed by his colleagues as a “return to Conservatism”, housing market experts are non-plussed about the policies for their sector.<\/p>\n
Housing played a minor role in the budget today, with the main announcement being stamp duty cuts and assistance for first-time buyers.<\/p>\n
Simon Gerrard, Managing Director of Martyn Gerrard Estate Agents and Abbeytown Ltd, said the Chancellor has not done enough for ordinary Britons.<\/p>\n
Mr Gerrard said: “What an anti-climax!”<\/p>\n
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“The new Chancellor spoke about a ‘new approach for a new era’ yet when it comes to ordinary people and, specifically the housing market, he simply hasn’t gone far enough.”<\/p>\n
“It’s all very well cutting Stamp Duty for first-time buyers but for others, the cut doesn’t even address the annual increase to mortgage repayments which follow on from the Bank of England’s recent 0.5 percent interest rate rise.<\/p>\n
“Kwasi Kwarteng spoke of upcoming planning reform and the need to get Britain building without offering concrete solutions.<\/p>\n
“These are the same empty promises made by successive Conservative governments – yielding little to no effect.<\/p>\n
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“The single most pressing issue that housing market faces is a lack of supply.”<\/p>\n
“Put simply, there aren’t enough homes being built due to a planning regime which is simply not fit for purpose.<\/p>\n
“We urgently need more homes to ease the supply\/demand imbalance, yet we are no closer to knowing whether the Government will take serious action.<\/p>\n
“The proof will be in the pudding.”<\/p>\n
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Experts have also warned the stamp duty alteration – which saw Mr Kwarteng promise to double the threshold from £125,000 to £250,000 – will make transfer more wealth to the rich.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the Times, Liz Emerson, chief executive of the Intergenerational Foundation charity, said the stamp duty cut would raise house prices.<\/p>\n
This would leave younger Britons struggling to pay for a home, while older homeowners receive a price boost.<\/p>\n
Ms Emerson said: “Once again the government is singing to the tune of wealthy oldies at the expense of the young.<\/p>\n
“Cutting stamp duty will merely raise prices and transfer yet more wealth from young to old.”<\/p>\n
When is the next budget?<\/p>\n
Those left uninspired by the limits of the latest budget will look for answers from the next one.<\/p>\n
The first full budget from Liz Truss’ Government is due later this year, and Mr Kwarteng has promised to return in the coming months.<\/p>\n
While there is no date for the forthcoming budget, the Chancellor said he would “set out an ambitious package of regulatory reforms later in the Autumn”.<\/p>\n