{"id":1689,"date":"2016-04-20T12:33:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T12:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2016-04-20T12:33:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T12:33:27","slug":"house-prices-londons-super-rich-are-now-renting-to-avoid-stamp-duty-and-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/house-prices-londons-super-rich-are-now-renting-to-avoid-stamp-duty-and-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"House Prices: London\u2019s super-rich are now renting to avoid stamp duty and taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The number of letting deals on properties worth more than \u00a310 million has increased by a third in the year to March 2016.
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\nLondon\u2019s super-rich are increasingly turning to renting in order to avoid paying stamp duty on expensive purchases, a new report shows.<\/p>\n

The number of letting deals on properties worth more than \u00a310m increased by a third in the year to March 2016, according to figures by estate agent Knight Frank. <\/p>\n

Sales of homes worth over \u00a310m fell 33 per cent in the same period of time, to 138 in the year to March, down from 206 in the year to December 2015<\/em><\/p>\n

Stamp duty went up 3 per cent on April 1, meaning the levy on a \u00a315m home now costs buyers around \u00a31.7m \u2013 the equivalennt of about three years’ worth of rent for a similarly-priced house, according to the figures.<\/p>\n

The areas with leases costing \u00a35,000 per week or above include prime areas such as South Kensington, Knightsbridge, Mayfair, Regent\u2019s Park and Holland Park.<\/p>\n

But concerns over the outcome of the upcoming referendum and the Panama Papers tax scandal, which revealed how the owners of offshore companies used them to buy London properties, might also be prompting the super-wealthy to rent rather than to buy.<\/p>\n

Henry Pryor, a buying agent, told the Financial Times that the Panama Papers has highlighted that \u2018no one can buy quietly\u2019 anymore. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some people who will be put off by that, and they should be,<\/em>\u201d Pryor said.<\/p>\n

The Panama Papers, leaked two weeks ago, found that 2,800 Mossack Fonseca companies are linked to the deeds of 6,000 properties in the UK, worth \u00a37 billion.<\/p>\n

It is estimated that 90,000 homes in England and Wales are registered to overseas owners, the majority of which (75,000 in total) are thought to be owned by companies registered within tax havens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The number of letting deals on properties worth more than \u00a310 million has increased by a third in the year to March 2016. London\u2019s super-rich are increasingly turning to renting in order to avoid paying stamp duty on expensive purchases, a new report shows. The number of letting deals on properties worth more than \u00a310m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9PjAq-rf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}