Senior figures across the UK property industry are mounting a coordinated push for greater policy stability, warning that the drumbeat of fiscal announcements and speculation ahead of the Budget on 28th October 2026 is doing more damage to market confidence than any single tax change. The complaint is not new, but its urgency has sharpened considerably over the past eighteen months, as successive Budgets and mini-Budgets have introduced, reversed, or reshaped stamp duty thresholds, capital gains treatment, and landlord taxation with a frequency that has left investors struggling to plan beyond a single fiscal cycle.