Yesterday’s announcement that foreign owners of property will be liable for CGT from April 2015 is unlikely to encourage those owners to sell up, as it will only apply to future gains. But the move to tighten CGT rules aimed at investors and second home owners from next April was not expected, and could lead to a small boost in housing coming onto the market in the first quarter of next year.
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