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A recent appeal decision which allowed housing development on the Hertfordshire Green Belt highlights the need for greater flexibility on locational...

After months of negative messaging and anti-development sentiment, espoused both nationally by the Government, and locally during May’s local election campaigning,...

After months of negative messaging and anti-development sentiment, espoused both nationally by the Government, and locally during recent local election campaigning,...

The process from a Local Plan allocation to a digger on site typically stretches beyond the length of a five-year political...

Like most parts of the UK, the one I live in has a bit of a beef about parking. More precisely,...

Rishi Sunak has admitted Conservative Party members were a factor in ditching centralised housing targets. The Government officially watered-down proposals for mandatory...

Politicians are to take estate agents to task over what they call “a forest” of For Sale and To Let boards. Local...

A former adviser to Boris Johnson who is running to be the Tory candidate for London Mayor has promised to put...

A land agent has called for the planning process to be privatised as it hits out at the Government’s focus on...

There has been an understandable focus on things other than Government since the death of Queen Elizabeth was announced, but Prime...

This probably isn’t what wealthy buyers in one of the UK’s most expensive areas expected to hear, but a plea has...

One of the founding partners of the well-known agency Slater, Hogg and Howison has died at the age of 76. It was...

A council cracking down on the increase of illegally positioned estate agent boards. Agents are required, under Planning and Highways legislation to...

Local elections rarely set the pulse racing and this year’s poll on Thursday faces a similar problem. But this time, it’s a...

A London Labour council has won draconian powers to effectively ban For Sale and To Let boards in several parts of...

If anyone told us six weeks ago that agents would still be doing such amazing work for their communities during lockdown...

Another west country tourist hotspot looks set to ban any future new-build home being sold as a holiday or additional property. Bigbury...

The founder and chairman of Hunters, who is also a Conservative MP, has been criticised for a tweet saying he would...

Conservatives have been lining up to criticise a mansion tax which may be introduced on expensive homes to fund infrastructure improvements...

An estate agency accused of “taking the mickey” over the number of boards it has erected has fought back. The mayor of...

It’s time, surely, for government to crackdown not just on rogue agents and landlords but on rogue councils that confuse the...

One of London’s highest profile and most outspoken estate agent chiefs has scolded ‘Maybot’ Theresa May on the day she is to...

The two main political parties have squared up to each other over the issue of increasing council tax on second homes...

Two more local referendums have, as expected, agreed neighbourhood plans which ban the sale of new-build homes to anyone other than...

A row has broken out over council tax funds being used to pay 18 estate agencies to find homes for a...

A controversial scheme in a London borough, limiting the size and duration of letting and estate agents’ boards on display, comes...

The East of England, which takes in areas from Hertfordshire to Norfolk, has recorded the biggest hike in property prices over...

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...

In recent weeks I have been carrying out question and answer sessions with some of the key figures in the property...

A former Lancashire councillor has been banned from entering a local estate agency. Noel O'Brien, who has served as a Labour and...

A ban on agents' For Sale and To Let boards is being widened out across a city six years after a...

Sheffield in South Yorkshire, which was once one of the leading industrial cities in Britain and is still recognised for its...

Housing appears to have a disappointingly low priority in the new Theresa May-led Cabinet - at least judging from the time...

Foxtons has won planning consent for an office in the south London suburb of Peckham after another controversy involving opposition from...

A local council is banning estate and letting agents’ boards after it has been handed legal powers to ‘prevent their spread’. Agents...

A prominent Conservative activist is calling for a strict clampdown on estate agents’ boards which she describes as “a form of...

In January readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given the opportunity to give their views on proposed...

In the latest twist in the story of Foxtons’ attempt to turn a pub into an agency office, squatters have moved...

A proposed Foxtons branch in Elephant and Castle has been criticised by a local councillor as the campaign against it begins...