Angela Rayner scraps plans to limit social housing applications to long-term British residents
Official statistics show that 251,866 social homes were made available in 2022-23, of which one in 10 went to a...
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Flat-pack housing dream is in crisis, warns Persimmon boss
Britain’s flat-pack housing dream is in turmoil, the chief executive of Persimmon has warned, as he urged Sir Keir Starmer...
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Conversion into residential
The UK built fewer houses in 2022 than since the second world war, according to an analysis...
The truth about house prices and immigration
Governments’ own policies bear much of the responsibility for rising house prices, adds Cheshire. It introduced a range of affordable...
UK property market: The changing face of the rental market
The UK housing landscape has changed significantly in recent decades with a large fall in home ownership rates. Importantly, the...
Abolishing radical rent controls has failed – Britain needs a rethink
Admittedly, the recent Scottish experience also shows that the re-introduction of rent controls can be difficult. It can lead to...
Labour plots to end rental price wars in another blow for landlords
Around 40pc of those who moved in the past year ended up in contracts that were an average £1,200 a...
‘I offered my discounted buy-to-let empire to my tenants – they refused’
Was I as out of touch as Rishi Sunak has been with his latest pledge for landlords to not pay...
Landlords are entering the ‘age of insecurity’ under Labour
But who is going to stay, and why?With manifesto pledges to improve the energy efficiency of homes by 2030, despite...
Labour’s vague promises won’t solve Britain’s housing crisis
With the Tories having failed to grasp the nettle, Labour too is showing little sign of taking on the enormously...
