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30 April 2024
From: Breaking News
The Government has taken the unusual step of intervening in the London Plan to boost housebuilding in the capital. Housing Secretary Michael...
19 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and ex-Home Secretary Priti Patel had around three years in Government to sort out housing but...
11 January 2023
From: Breaking News
A former adviser to Boris Johnson who is running to be the Tory candidate for London Mayor has promised to put...
13 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Housing Secretary Greg Clark, who is also the Levelling Up Secretary, has been caught up in the storm surrounding Rishi Sunak...
08 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A major new scheme worth half a million pounds is now underway in an effort to promote sustainable investment into housing,...
08 August 2022
From: Breaking News
London mayor Sadiq Khan says he supports the seizure of property assets connected to the allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The...
28 February 2022
From: Breaking News
One of the chief figures behind Brexit and Boris Johnson’s role as London Mayor is now advising that stamp duty should be...
09 February 2021
From: Breaking News
London mayor Sadiq Khan is reported to be asking the Prime Minister to review the status of ‘essential retail’ which can...
14 January 2021
From: Breaking News
The Atlantic Ocean is a vast space – some 4,000 miles eastwards across from the USA until land is met again....
29 February 2020
From: Features
Agents have reacted angrily to the government contemplating introducing a Mansion Tax, and to the Housing Secretary not ruling out the...
10 February 2020
From: Breaking News
There are reasons to be optimistic that a majority government will improve the housing market, simply by ending political and economic...
21 December 2019
From: Features
If you thought - perhaps hoped - that five weeks of prorogued Parliament meant a break from politics, think again: the...
14 September 2019
From: Features
A leading figure in urban design is urging new Prime Minister Boris Johnson to stand up for the pioneering space standards...
07 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Our own industry’s upheaval over recent years has been no less dramatic than the turmoil at Westminster. The political earthquake has seen...
23 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...
22 June 2019
From: Features
A slew of bad news stories about online estate agencies may have taken the lustre off the sector in recent weeks,...
06 March 2019
From: Breaking News
Kit Malthouse has been making headlines this week, but – in keeping with his tenure as Housing Minister so far -...
02 February 2019
From: Features
With the shelf life of recent housing ministers being on a par with football managers, it's perhaps little surprise that we're...
20 July 2018
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan is stepping up the pressure on government to speed up the delivery of a new public register...
01 March 2018
From: Breaking News
That the private rental sector has become the government’s whipping boy for housing problems - landlords in particular, letting agents almost...
14 July 2017
From: Features
“I predict that within a few years, folks advertising properties for rent or to buy will start to show if their property is a...
06 April 2017
From: Breaking News
London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s aim of creating a 24-hour city is one step closer with the appointment of London’s first Night...
26 November 2016
From: Features
Some of this week’s headlines - ‘Firms must list foreign workers’ and ‘NHS to no longer rely on foreign doctors’ -...
07 October 2016
From: Features
The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to do all in his power to help make London “better” after...
12 May 2016
From: Features
The Motley Fool, a widely-read City investment column, says a Leave vote could result in a fall in housing market transaction...
04 May 2016
From: Breaking News
The race to replace London Mayor Boris Johnson has entered its final few days, and like never before, housing is the...
29 April 2016
From: Features
Another agency has warned of the likely market slowdown caused by the June 23 EU referendum and political uncertainty over the...
28 April 2016
From: Breaking News
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the free market Centre for Policy Studies think tank says the proposals put forward by Labour’s London Mayor candidate...
15 April 2016
From: Breaking News
Sadiq Khan, Zac Goldsmith or whoever else wins the London Mayor election this spring should have the power to levy stamp...
08 March 2016
From: Breaking News
Kevin Hollinrake - the founder of Hunters estate agency and now Conservative MP for Thirsk, Malton & Filey - says he is...
23 February 2016
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A suggestion that up to 50 per cent of new homes built in London should be affordable has come in for...
03 February 2016
From: Breaking News
Countrywide has taken the unusual step, for an estate agency group, of stepping into next year’s London mayoral election by setting...
22 December 2015
From: Breaking News
Labour’s newly-elected candidate for next year’s London mayoral election says he will name and shame rogue landlords and create a public...
17 September 2015
From: Breaking News
Housing minister has Brandon Lewis has thrown his weight behind the right of foreign investors to purchase buy to let properties,...
18 August 2015
From: Breaking News
An MP has tabled an Early Day Motion calling on the Land Registry to require greater transparency for overseas company purchases...