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The new Labour government has committed to building 370,000 homes per year, but is it realistic? The housing crisis in the UK...

The new Labour government has pledged to prioritise a ‘brownfield first’ approach to urban planning, as part of its promise to...

We welcome the thrust of the Deputy Prime Minister’s announcement this week on planning reform.  In particular, we support the return of...

SINCE the new Labour government was elected in early July, one phrase has been circulating more than any – grey belt....

All councils in England will be given new, mandatory housebuilding targets under planning reforms unveiled by the Government yesterday. Deputy Prime Minister...

The new Government’s plan to ‘Get Britain Building’ is ambitious, to say the least.    And it is central to their mission, not...

Just a week after Labour’s landslide election victory and already their top team is coming under scrutiny and being asked to...

Reforms to the UK’s planning system must move from a one size fits all approach to boost development, the Government has...

It's more than a week since we saw the removal vans enter Downing St and Labour’s promise to hit the ground...

Just a week after Labour’s landslide election victory and already their top team is coming under scrutiny and being asked to...

New Chancellor Rachel Reeves has used her first speech to reinstate housebuilding targets and pledge to build one and a half...

New research reveals nearly half a million homes could be built across London on land that currently lies derelict amid a...

There’s been a broadly warm response from much of the property industry to Labour’s manifesto, but a call for more detail...

So we’ve been sent the ‘Save The Date’ card - it’s July 4. Now all we need is the invitation to the...

There’s a very important first step that needs to be taken in resolving the housing crisis: we need a greater understanding...

You don’t have to be a mind-reader to believe there will be a large majority Labour government by the end of...

There’s been broad support from within the agency and wider property sectors for Labour’s proposal to build on selected parts of...

Keir Starmer set out Labour’s policy for housebuilding this week and targeted ‘ugly’ parts of the Green Belt. It will be a...

Propertymark has urged the UK Government to consider other ways of boosting the supply of homes for purchase.  The Government has two...

Building on brownfield sites may not be the silver bullet it is made out to be, the government has been warned. Housing...

Propertymark has backed the launch of the Government’s £80m brownfield regeneration scheme. Councils across England can now bid for a share of...

Talk about a wasted opportunity. The Conservative party conference - just finished, and possibly the last one before a General Election -...

More families need a home they can call their own, the Housing Secretary Michael Gove has claimed. Speaking at the Tory Party...

And suddenly it’s autumn. It’s just six weeks before the clocks change, days are getting shorter and - the real sign...

Keir Starmer’s announcement about building on the Green Belt attracted some contentious headlines. It immediately thrust housing and planning into the...

The Government has set out yet another attempt to meet it manifesto commitment to build 1m homes over this Parliament. Prime Minister...

From valuations to viewings, conveyancing to completions, technology has transformed our sector dramatically and permanently. After comparatively slow beginnings, PropTech really took...

Homes have decreased in size every decade since the 1950s, despite house prices rising exponentially, according to new data. Intriguingly the average...

The property market is broken, Housing Secretary Michael Gove acknowledged yesterday. Despite the Conservative Party being in power since 2010, Gove insisted...

Happy New Year, to you all. Now that we’re all back in harness and Christmas feels like a long-distant memory, I...

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and ex-Home Secretary Priti Patel had around three years in Government to sort out housing but...

And…breathe. For a while back there, the only certainty for the housing market was uncertainty. That isn’t to say the election of Rishi...

A quarter of agents have indicated they may prefer Rishi Sunak as the next Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister –...

The government is being urged to not just treat housebuilding as a numbers game. It comes as the Department for Levelling Up,...

The government last night revealed more details on its flagship Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill including letting local authorities double council...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

In the Autumn Budget on Wednesday 27 October, very few impending tax hikes were revealed by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak –...

At first glance, Rishi Sunak’s Budget speech earlier this week didn’t offer much from a property perspective. But digging down a little...

Agents trade body Propertymark has given its verdict on yesterday’s Budget with this statement - “Some good news but it leaves...

There’s been some cynicism amongst the industry in response to new homes promises made by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in yesterday’s Budget. Sunak...

The Budget has proven more generous than many expected - and with most property taxation left unchanged. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has made...

A part of the Connells Group is telling the new Housing Secretary that he and his government “must do more” to...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has given a ringing endorsement to home ownership as a central part of the government’s levelling up...

As the Tokyo Olympics draws to a close this weekend, the Nationwide Building Society has analysed long-term capital appreciation in locations regenerated...

In the firmest sign yet that PropTech has entered the mainstream, Housing Minister Esther McVey recently launched an expert advisory council...

With Brexit still unresolved, the domestic agenda has been pushed from the headlines by the seemingly overwhelming public and political discord...

Housing minister Esther McVey says Compulsory Purchase Orders and brownfield land registers are to be made digitally transparent.  This will allow CPO...

Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...

We’ve all heard the comments - the countryside is being covered in concrete, new houses are springing up everywhere, our green...

At the start of February, Nationwide suggested that the housing market was picking up. Last week, RICS reported on its continued...

A new national housing agency – Homes England – has been launched by the newly-rebadged Ministry of Housing Communities and Local...

In this week’s Natter I’m going to get all political. Don’t worry, I won’t be giving my opinions on Brexit, Trump...

Theresa May’s call for a snap general election on June 8 took many by surprise. But estate agents have been broadly...

More than three quarters of developers want to see the government go into reverse on its stamp duty and mortgage interest...

Over 168,000 new homes were completed in the year to March 2016, according to data released by the government, over 15,500...

The government’s blizzard of New Year announcements about new homes has received a distinctly frosty welcome from many within the property...

2017 is set to be the first year since 2008 that the UK constructs 200,000 new homes, suggests Redrow, one of...

It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...

The government has signalled that it is going to publish a housing White Paper later this year with “significant measures” to...

With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...

The race to replace London Mayor Boris Johnson has entered its final few days, and like never before, housing is the...

An agency which specialises in land is calling on local councils to play a greater part in the push to create...

As we all know, Peter Redfern is critical to the future of the British housing market and.... What? Wait? You don’t know...

In an unexpected announcement, the government says it will "directly commission" companies to build up to 13,000 new affordable homes on...

The government is telling councils to produce local plans for new homes in their area by 2017 – or Whitehall will...

The imbalance of supply and demand in the housing market “will lead to even stronger price gains over the next 12...

The government has launched a £26m fund for house builders and developers to demonstrate the range of high quality homes appropriate...

Estate agents have given an enthusiastic endorsement to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposals to help boost housing building totals through changes to...

Estate and letting agents and other figures in the property industry have been making their last-minute calls on Chancellor George Osborne...

Now that the General Election results have been counted and verified, and now that a new parliament has been sworn in,...

The  new government has announced its legislative plans for housing in the coming year.  In the first all-Conservative Queen’s Speech since 1996,...

The Conservative Party’s manifesto pledge to extend the Right to Buy scheme was confirmed in yesterday’s Housing Bill.  The Bill was part...

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...

The Conservatives’ election victory came as a surprise, so much so that television pundits spent all night after the vote rubbishing...