With the second lockdown starting on the 5th November 2020, does this mean Hounslow landlords can wave goodbye to their Hounslow buy-to-let investment and see it go up in smoke on the bonfire of buy-to-let dreams, like a Guy Fawkes puppet?

Hounslow homebuyers and Hounslow landlords purchasing residential property have saved £1,799,400 since the Chancellor reduced Stamp Duty on 8th July 2020, yet many more Hounslow homebuyers could miss out.

Boris Johnson has attracted both praise and horror in equal measure with a new plan for 95% mortgages to help beleaguered first time buyers to get on the property ladder, but would that expose UK taxpayers to too much risk? In this article I discuss the implications of what that would mean both nationally and locally in Hounslow.