Archive

The 2023 Autumn Budget, amongst its considerable 110 growth measures, contained an important announcement for the property sphere, with £3 million...

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

The housing industry has set out a list of demands in advance of the government’s hotly anticipated Autumn Budget on Wednesday.  Despite...

Simon Gerrard, a past president of the National Association of Estate Agents, has called on the government to switch the burden...

I’ve written before about the impact of headlines on the property industry. Interest rate speculation.   Market booms and busts. Demand...

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...

Whenever any research is released, part of me can’t help thinking of that old adage, ‘lies, damn lies and statistics’ especially...

First time buyers have finances stretched beyond their means, buy to let is attracting fewer investors because of taxes, and affordability...

The political ebb and flow continues - seemingly with all the subtlety of a Boris Johnson rugby tackle on a 10-year...

New housing minister Alok Sharma is set to make his first key speech this week, at the Housing 2017 conference in...

Figures released by the government suggest that over 285,000 people, including 240,000 first time buyers, have used one or more of...

A regional estate agency has urged the Government and the new housing minister to implement the policies outlined in the housing...

The property industry has broadly welcomed the appointment of a new housing minister, which was made yesterday evening. Reading West MP Alok...

Former housing minister Gavin Barwell has been appointed as Theresa May's chief of staff. Barwell lost his Croydon Central seat – and...

The housing industry has responded with shock, joy, and jitters, after Theresa May’s snap general election went catastrophically wrong, leaving her...

A survey from a financial organisation suggests that nearly half of the UK public says they would support a government incentive...

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

The National Association of Estate Agents says the number of sales agreed rose to a 10 year high in February. The NAEA...

We’re almost nine months on from the EU Referendum and yet the issue remains the big divide across the nation: an...

Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...

Looking ahead to the Spring Budget this week, the Chancellor Philip Hammond will be obliged to face up to the implications...

A sales progression tool claims to have reduced the average transaction time for a property from around 94 days to around...

The housing market has not been short of a White Paper over the last few months, and while you might just...

If you work in lettings, I’ll already have a pretty good idea on how you feel about the current Conservative Government.  The...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has told the NAEA conference that there is no quick fix for the country’s housing shortage -...

Grant Shapps, housing minister between 2010 and 2012, has said the measures in the current government’s White Paper are not bold...

The government’s attitude of “Nanny knows best” has “squandered another opportunity” to make a real difference to the housing crisis, according...

The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper.   Introducing it in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...

A series of leaks to national newspapers and a flurry of broadcast interviews by housing minister Gavin Barwell means we already know...

Whisper it quietly but it appears that NIMBY-ism is on the wane as increasing numbers of voters are recognising the need...

There's bad news for the government in the form of house building targets on the eve of its long-awaited Housing White...

First details of the long-awaited Housing White Paper have emerged in stories in newspapers frequently used by government to float ideas. The...

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

Confusion surrounds the timing of the government’s eagerly-anticipated White Paper on housing. Respected property industry weekly magazine Estates Gazette has tweeted that...

In case you missed it yesterday, here’s a summary of everything relating to property that was in Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s Autumn...

Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...

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