【Bloomberg】U.K. Housing Market Was Starting to Revive Before Tax Holiday

The U.K. property market was showing signs of returning to life last month even before the government announced an enormous tax break for most home buyers.

Listings and inquiries picked up in June as the coronavirus lockdown started to ease, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said Thursday. The report comes a day after Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced that most buyers won’t have to pay stamp duty, a tax on the final sale price, until March.

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