Residential property sales and total stamp duty from contracts passed before the Royal Court (FOI)Residential property sales and total stamp duty from contracts passed before the Royal Court (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by States of Jersey and published on
09 September 2015.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
Please state the number of residential property sales passed before the Royal Court for;
May 2013, 2014 and 2015
June 2013, 2014 and 2015
Please state the total stamp duty receipts from contracts passed before the Royal Court and billets registered in the Royal Court and LTT for the years;
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. July 2013, 2014 and 2015
Response
I have answered your request in two separate tables as seen below.
A) Residential property sales passed before the Royal Court.
B) Total stamp duty and billets registered in the Royal Court.
Your response has been handled by the Judicial Greffe which is the department responsible for the administration of the Courts in Jersey.
A.
Residential property sales passed before the Royal Court for;
| May: 183 | May: 209 | May: 195 |
| June: 160 | June: 188 | June: 193 |
| July: 194 | July: 167 | July: 209 |
B.
Total stamp duty receipts from contracts passed before the Royal Court and billets registered in the Royal Court and LTT for the year 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
The total amount of stamp duty for residential and commercial transactions are always published in the Court Service Annual Report although for the purpose for the request I have included it in the response.
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
| 15,884,00 | 17,914,00 | 14,948,000 | 13,721,00 | 21,690,000 |
"LTT" stats are available on the gov.je site due to the Judicial Greffe not being accountable for holding the information.
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