{"id":71911,"date":"2025-02-11T07:34:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T07:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=71911"},"modified":"2025-02-11T07:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T07:34:42","slug":"the-end-of-stamp-duty-relief-isnt-the-only-cost-going-up-for-first-time-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/11\/the-end-of-stamp-duty-relief-isnt-the-only-cost-going-up-for-first-time-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of stamp duty relief isn\u2019t the only cost going up for first-time buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1yNlMd.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=886&amp;y=410&amp;s=137&amp;d=141\" alt=\"First-time buyers face a flurry of higher costs\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First-time buyers (FTBs) are facing higher costs across the board as they grapple with not only high stamp duty fees, but a low stock of affordable houses, more stringent lending requirements and higher upfront costs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/the-end-of-stamp-duty-relief-isn-t-the-only-cost-going-up-for-first-time-buyers\/ar-AA1yNaJa?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=8baad4334a1e4a65e34c05f97d0d0bb5&amp;ei=72\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>First-time buyers (FTBs) are facing higher costs across the board as they grapple with not only high stamp duty fees, but a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/home-owner.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71912,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71911\/revisions\/71912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}