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We frequently read about how the traditional form of urban BTR has inspired the more recent model, suburban BTR. Our own...

Winkworth has extended its North London presence with the opening of a new office in fashionable Stoke Newington. This will be the...

The Labour Party has committed to building 1.5m new homes across the country over the next parliament. Shadow Housing Secretary Angela Rayner...

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

Thousands of people will be invited to take part in new research to help provide information on why one particularly badly...

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...

Dog-owning house buyers who want to live in areas of abundant green space in which to walk their four-legged friends are...

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

The borough of Richmond upon Thames in London has been crowned the happiest place to live in Great Britain, according to...

Independent estate agency Hat and Home has released a sneak peak of its 2023 brand marketing campaign.  Renowned for its distinctive advertising...

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

More than half of prospective homebuyers looking for a new location to move to want to be within a 20-minute walk...

Two all-party groups of MPs and Peers have called on the government to act to turn empty buildings into good quality,...

Winkworth has expanded further in the South West of England with a new office opening in the Bishopston area of Bristol. The...

From bake sales to beach clean-ups, there have been plenty of ways that agents have been giving back for good causes...

There’s talk of 50-year mortgages being introduced, loans that, along with the property they finance, could be passed to the next...

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

A leading buying agency says that while prime central London’s property market shows clear signs of recovery, a weak area remains...

With the drastic changes enacted on the industry over the past two years thanks to the pandemic and political events such...

Rightmove claims to have found the happiest place in the UK - and it’s in Northumberland. The market town of Hexham has...

New research shows that despite media attention and new government policies, better energy efficiency is not a key issue for the...

As we move into the autumn of 2021, what the coming year has in store for estate agents is something we...

2020 gave rise to an exodus from the city as work from home became the mandated norm for large swaths of...

Phil Spencer has interviewed five key regional estate agents in the latest of his Move iQ industry videos. It’s a fascinating insight...

Hello, welcome to our latest charity roundup, and as the weather improves and the vaccine roll-out lifts the spirits, so we...

What’s the happiest place in Britain? Rightmove has the answer. In a new ‘Happy At Home’ index calculated by the portal and...

Agents in some parts of the country may be able to make use of data from utilities comparison service uSwitch, which...

A leading agent says the government’s new Coronavirus clampdown from Monday will push more home owners to sell. Caspar Harvard-Wills, a partner at...

The government has launched a competition to attract what it calls “the best and brightest talents of the housing industry” to...

This is stating the obvious to estate agents but the government has revealed that homes near parks, gardens, playing fields and...

The Nationwide building society is to go into house building. It has received planning permission to build 239 new homes for sale...

Leamington Spa in Warwickshire has been named as the happiest place to live in Great Britain in Rightmove’s 2017 Happy at...

The Liberal Democrats have set a building target of 300,000 new homes a year, have pledged to scrap housing association Right...

In the capital, people will pay a premium to live near great transport links, and as we’ve seen from Crossrail and...

It has been revealed that the new housing minister, Gavin Barwell, appears to be campaigning to oppose a new housing scheme...

With another hung parliament looking increasingly likely, the so-called ‘challenger parties’ look set to have a major say in who forms...