UK stamp duty receipts jump 16% in June 2026: what it means for buyers and sellers in Huntingdonshire.

What HMRC's June 2026 receipts actually show.

HMRC publishes UK tax receipts monthly, and the June 2026 bulletin, published 21 July 2026, shows property purchases generated £1.24bn in stamp duty, up 16% on May's £1.07bn and 17% higher than the £1.06bn collected in June 2025. Over the second quarter of 2026, April to June, £5.1bn was collected in total, £0.5bn more than the same quarter last year.

Separate analysis from Coventry Building Society puts stamp duty paid by homebuyers at £6.6bn across the first half of 2026, almost exactly matching the same period in 2025, even though more purchases are now liable for the tax. That is the story behind the headline figure: receipts are climbing because more transactions are completing and more of them cross the tax-free threshold, not because rates themselves have changed.

Sources: HMRC tax receipts and National Insurance contributions monthly bulletin, June 2026; Coventry Building Society H1 2026 stamp duty analysis. As of 22 July 2026.

Why are receipts rising, more sales or a bigger tax bill?

Both, but the bigger driver is the threshold. The temporary nil-rate band for home movers, raised to £250,000 during the post-pandemic years, reverted to its standard £125,000 level on 1 April 2025. That single change added roughly £2,500 to the stamp duty bill on an average-priced English home overnight, and it is still working through the data more than a year later: every mover buying above £125,000, which across most of the country is most movers, now pays more than they would have under the old threshold.

The other driver is genuinely encouraging. Receipts do not rise on a threshold alone, they rise when transactions complete. June's 16% monthly jump is larger than the threshold effect can explain by itself, which points to more sales going through nationally, not just a bigger bill on the same number of sales.

Which Huntingdonshire buyers actually pay stamp duty?

The patch splits cleanly along the line we set out in our stamp duty divide article from earlier this month. First-time buyers in Huntingdon, Brampton and Godmanchester paid £251,000 on average in January 2026, comfortably inside the £300,000 first-time buyer relief threshold, so most still owe nothing at all.

Movers are a different story, and this is where the June rise in national receipts lands hardest on the patch. The nil-rate band for a mover is only £125,000, far below the first-time buyer relief, and typical Huntingdonshire prices sit well above that level. Most patch households trading up now pay something on the move, even if the bill is smaller than the South East average of around £11,250 that home movers there now face.

What rising receipts mean if you are buying or selling now.