If he’s worried about the market exposure he can hang onto his old place and rent it out.
Depending on your position you could have paid almost as most tax on the rent as you would on SDLT in a couple of years.
So long as it's not a pattern of buying and selling then accelerating one SDLT payment isn't going to make a huge deal of difference.
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If he’s worried about the market exposure he can hang onto his old place and rent it out.