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Labour’s upcoming mansion tax has triggered the biggest fall in Westminster house prices on record.Average house prices in the central...

Local authorities would also have to buy expensive land to build on, adding to the cost.Figures from Savills show there...

Perhaps a raid on pensions? You guessed it, the Chancellor has already dragged them into the purview of inheritance tax.Even...

This target was substantially built around the assumption that planning reform alone would unleash a tsunami of private-sector house building.Sadly,...

Britain’s biggest housebuilders face a £4.5bn legal claim about allegations they colluded to increase house prices and rip off buyers.Nine...

One third of new homes in London failed to sell to private buyers last year, laying bare the scale of...

That is despite targets set by the local council requiring all new developments in Manchester to designate at least 20pc...

To reach its target, the Government needs to build 300,000 new homes per year, but just more than 150,000 a...

This marked the eighth month in a row in which year-on-year prices decreased in London, with prices having fallen by...

Andy Burnham’s £4bn plan for a “new town” in Manchester has been dealt a blow after hundreds of homes were...