Burnham is coming for your home
Perhaps a raid on pensions? You guessed it, the Chancellor has already dragged them into the purview of inheritance tax.Even...
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Letters: Burnham’s property tax overhaul threatens to destroy aspiration
SIR – Heather Wetzel claims that a new land value tax (LVT) would be “fairer”, as well as “more efficient...
Negative equity traps are the real crisis in housing
So much for an asset that only ever goes up. Last year, nearly one in five people selling a flat...
Labour’s house of cards on tax will come tumbling down
While Sir Keir Starmer’s administration has been fiscally irresponsible, the Labour MPs and trade union barons putting Andy Burnham in...
Andy Burnham’s council house blitz is a recipe for social disharmony
This target was substantially built around the assumption that planning reform alone would unleash a tsunami of private-sector house building.Sadly,...
Landlords: embrace your inner cockroach – we will survive Labour
And I feel now is the time to share a history lesson with you, because what so many politicians who...
It is totally unacceptable that tenants are crowdfunding their rent
If ever there was a canary in the coal mine of Britain’s broken rental market, it is GoFundMe reporting that...
Britain can’t build houses (and why it wouldn’t bring prices down anyway)
So no, it doesn’t appear to be a shortage of housing that is the principal cause of the strongly rising...
Labour is trying to kill the private landlord – I’m not giving up without a fight
I remain steadfast in my belief that a functioning private rental market is essential to supporting social mobility and, in...
Secret Landlord: I broke housing law by accident – but this is what councils want
This is scary stuff. If, for example, a tenant tripped, fell and injured themselves and said you were liable, the...
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