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Housing

  • Sadiq Khan’s green belt U-turn is an admission of failure on housing

    Opinion

    Sadiq Khan is spinning his plan to build on London’s green belt as a “radical change of approach”, but it’s nothing of the sort. It will have a very limited impact on housing starts during this mayoral term and may only add to the political heat around house building, says James Ford Margaret Thatcher famously [...]

  • Building on the green belt won’t solve London’s housing crisis

    Opinion

    The Mayor’s plan to release green belt land for development is a good start, but if we really want to fix London’s housing crisis we need to build more and higher in the centre, says Joe Hill London’s success isn’t inevitable. It’s based on people wanting to live and work here, and there being enough [...]

  • Rightmove: Lower mortgages and browsing Brits boost property portal

    Property

    Property platform Rightmove has benefitted from a more optimistic housing market as mortgage rates fall, with buyer demand and property listings both up. The FTSE100 company, which is home to over 80 per cent of all consumer time spent on UK property portals, said new property listings rose nine per cent in the first four [...]

  • To be the party of opportunity, Conservatives must be the party of YIMBYs

    May 7, 2025

    Britain’s housing shortage is now so severe that even if we hit Labour’s now abandoned building target, it would still take half a century to close the gap, says Sir Simon Clarke Last night I was delighted to launch Conservative YIMBY (“Yes In My Back Yard”), a campaign group which aims to transform Conservative attitudes [...]

  • The non-dom exodus is harming London’s housing market

    May 2, 2025

    Punitive taxes and onerous regulation on landlords are leading the wealthy to sell up and leave London – with knock-on effects at all levels of the housing market, says James Evans As City AM’s Editor-in-Chief recently pointed out, ‘The UK only has around 70,000 non-doms, and that number is falling fast. More than 11,000 millionaires, [...]

  • Kevin McCloud: Housebuilder ‘oligopoly’ needs urgent reform

    May 2, 2025

    Britain’s housebuilding industry is a cartel-like oligopoly that needs root and branch reform in order for the UK is to build enough high-quality homes to solve its housing crisis, Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud has said. In a withering assessment the track record of major housebuilders, McCloud said the UK construction sector’s supply chain had [...]

  • Controversial tower opposed by Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Felicity Kendal rejected

    April 25, 2025

    Plans for a 29-storey mixed-use tower at the southern end of Battersea Bridge have been unanimously rejected by Wandsworth Council. The 110-home Glassmill scheme was voted down at meeting of the authority’s planning committee on Thursday night. The decision follows months of local opposition to the project, with more than 2,000 objections from members of [...]

  • Mortgage completions surged 50 per cent in March amid race to swerve stamp duty

    April 21, 2025

    Mortgage completions have risen to their highest level since September as buyers rushed to avoid higher property taxes. Completions in March jumped 70 per cent compared to February for first-time buyers, according to Barclays, ahead of a change to stamp duty rates in April. “We experienced a blockbuster month for completions in March, as buyers [...]

  • Barratt Redrow shares rise as housebuilder predicts growth

    April 16, 2025

    Construction giant Barratt Redrow has said it is "well-positioned for sustainable growth" as its forward sales dropped by double-digit figures

  • Londoners earn the most but spend very little, IFS finds

    April 11, 2025

    Londoners top the ranking for income per head across the UK, yet spend very little after housing costs are taken into account, according to research by leading think tanks.  A new report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) signals that high housing costs in the capital city [...]

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