100-year-old construction giant to stop building homes in UK
Construction continues to suffer a slump amid persistently high inflation, rising build costs and weak housebuyer demand.Housebuilder MJ Gleeson swung...
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Gordon Brown: Property is already ‘heavily’ taxed
Figures seen by The Telegraph this summer showed that Britain’s yearly council tax intake could rise by £17.6bn by 2030,...
Shortage of council planners threatens Andy Burnham’s housing goals
Staff shortages in council planning departments risk derailing Andy Burnham’s housing goals, experts have warned.Britain is facing a shortfall of...
How Labour broke Britain’s rental market in 100 days
Labour’s groundbreaking Renters’ Rights Act was designed to give power back to tenants.By banning landlords from issuing Section 21 “no...
Labour plans fresh crackdown on Nimbys
Communities fighting to block large housing developments could be limited to a single court challenge under a new Labour crackdown...
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...
Foxtons hit as Labour’s rent reforms let students move out early
Foxtons cut its profit guidance after earnings for the first half of its financial year plunged by nearly a third...
The homeowners in the crosshairs of a Burnham property tax raid
Homeowners in the Chilterns could be forced to pay hundreds of millions of pounds more for living in their homes...
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...
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...
