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Mandatory housing targets are back, alongside a pledge to build 1.5 million homes in the next five years. But can Prime...

The latest residential market sentiment survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests confidence in the housing market is beginning...

The Liberal Democrat General Election manifesto has been published, promising more housebuilding, abolishing leasehold tenures and its own buyer support scheme. Its...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday confirmed a date for the General Election. Voters will go the polls on 4 July, meaning the...

Propertymark, the leading membership body for property agents has written to London Mayor candidates highlighting proposals to tackle the unique housing...

Propertymark has welcomed the appointment of the new leader of Welsh Labour and subsequently First Minister for Wales Vaughan Gething. The agency...

As the UK economy faces a period of uncertainty characterised by a cost of living crisis and soaring inflation rates, many...

The term mixed-tenure development usually refers to residential developments where different residential tenures are provided on the same site. Typically, tenure was...

It has been another busy month for job moves in the estate agency sector. Here are some of the latest moves that...

Recent political changes – and there have been quite a few in recent weeks – have brought about something of a...

Some people will say: What problem? But they are getting fewer as the detrimental effect of increasing numbers of short lets on...

Zoopla has teamed up with homelessness charity Crisis to help campaign for reform of housing benefits and to tackle the affordable...

The government’s legislative agenda will be set out this morning in the Queen’s Speech and there are plenty of potential laws that...

A bid to regulate second home ownership in part of the UK through changes to planning policy will add complexity and...

Propertymark has criticised the government over poor house building figures. New figures from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities show...

There’s been a very low expression of interest in Commonhold, despite the government pushing the new tenure as an alternative to...

Proposals to resuscitate the self-build housing sector have been welcomed by the government. Conservative MP Richard Bacon has published an independent report...

Theresa May arrived in Downing Street some three years ago - but her premiership has not been a smooth ride. As she...

It’s no secret that the UK’s housing sector is in crisis. Headlines scream about the shortage of new-build homes. TV pundits...

Barely a day goes by when we don’t read a new report on the unscrupulous practices of landlords; of the sub-standard...

The government has this morning set out wide-ranging changes to redress systems for agents, the sales and lettings sectors, and other...

There may be a cloud over the economy right now but growth of 2.7 per cent in house prices last year...

A full 100 per cent of 20 to 24 year olds hope to buy their own home one day -  but...

Labour’s shadow housing minister John Healey is reported to be one of a number of prominent front bench opposition spokespeople being...

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

As the nation waits with bated breath to see if Theresa May can form either a minority or coalition government after...

Research from Legal & General and the Centre for Economic Business and Research says parents are to spend 23 per cent...

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

Just a couple of weeks ago, we waited with anticipation to see what the new Chancellor, Philip Hammond, would say in...

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

Some of this week’s headlines - ‘Firms must list foreign workers’ and ‘NHS to no longer rely on foreign doctors’ -...

The credit crunch may have been the economic backdrop against which much of the housing market performance of the past 10...

There has been a gloomy response to the latest Knight Frank measure of house price sentiment - the first of its...

So this weekend some of us will see our first snow of the season. Harsh weather, Christmas adverts and winter generally...

Around one million homes that were owner-occupied in 2005 have in the intervening decade been sold and switched to being privately...

Scotland’s home building industry says at least 100,000 homes of all tenures are needed by the end of the next Scottish...

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