Kemi Badenoch has pledged to remove inheritance tax from family homes and scrap stamp duty on primary residences under a future Conservative government. The Conservative leader used her closing conference speech in Birmingham to promise that “nobody will ever pay inheritance tax on their family...

The UK housing market lost momentum in September as rising interest rate expectations weighed on buyer demand, sales activity and house prices, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) residential market survey. The September 2026 survey showed the first deterioration in buyer...