Stamp duty: Lukewarm welcome for Darling's £600m housing gamble [Guardian]
Brown attacked for 'waste of time' stamp duty suspension [Metro]
Measures unlikely to lure more buyers [FT]
Critics rain on Government's parade of housing reforms [Independent]
£1.6bn rescue package for home buyers will not work and may do harm, say industry chiefs [Times]
'A complete waste of time': Darling's 12-month stamp duty holiday dismissed as 'political sticking plaster' [Daily Mail]
£175,000 STAMP DUTY HOLIDAY A 'WASTE OF TIME' [Daily Express]
Critics says axed stamp duty will do little to boost the housing market [Daily Mirror]

So... a job well done. But what could Brown and co. have expected? In the view of the Rat and Mouse, they've got of relatively lightly... little talk, yet, of the potential harm they've done to vendors in the £175,000 to £200,000 category, or the danger of drawing first-time buyers into negative equity.

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