Housing sector to receive £44bn boost
The government has pledged some £44bn worth of funding and loans to the housing sector in this afternoon's Budget.
Chancellor Philip Hammond said the money would comes from a mixture of capital funding, loans and guarantees.
There will also be new money for the Home Builders Fund to get SME housebuilders building again, said Hammond, while revealing one million new homes will be built on the Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford corridor.
To a noisy reception, Hammond also announced that Stamp Duty would be abolished for all first-... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
