Stamp duty holiday extension urged <> The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) has called on the Government to extend the stamp duty holiday currently scheduled to end in December or risk damaging the recovery in the housing market... <> Six months of house price rises <> The average price of residential property transactions completed in England and Wales has increased for the sixth consecutive month, according to Acadametrics... <> FSA treats mortgage lenders like 'drug dealers' <> Britain's financial regulators see lenders as drug-dealers at the school gates, the head of the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said in an astonishing attack on the Financial Services Authority...   more »