House prices nudge up in “subdued” property market July 1, 2024 House prices rose just 0.2 per cent between May and June this year, as activity in the market remained "fairly subdued".
Election 2024: Home straight for Sunak and Starmer as polling day approaches July 1, 2024 Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer are set to enter the home straight this week as the general election campaign enters its final few days.
Election 2024: Starmer and Reeves plan green belt house building blitz June 30, 2024 Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are planning a housebuilding blitz, including asking councils to review green belt land, in their first days in office.
Build, baby, build: Want to solve the housing crisis? Forget town planners at your peril June 29, 2024 There's no point building homes if they're not in places people want to live, but public sector planning is in dire straights, writes Victoria Hills
Election 2024: Dirty money ‘won’t create growth’, Labour candidate warns June 27, 2024 Dirty money is “not going to create growth in this country”, a former anti-corruption campaigner-turned-Labour candidate has said.
Build, Baby, Build: Move over avo toast, ceramics are Gen Z’s housing crisis crutch June 27, 2024 Gen Z are spending more time and money on interior design, not despite, but because of, the housing crisis, writes Anna Moloney.
Taylor Wimpey and Rightmove set to benefit from Labour housebuilding plans June 26, 2024 Firms including Taylor Wimpey and Rightmove are poised to benefit if Labour wins the general election on 4 July, according to a leading broker, as both main parties put homebuilding at the centre of their plans to tackle the UK's housing crisis.
Build, Baby, Build: We’ll never fix the housing crisis without private capital June 23, 2024 It is only by close collaboration between the public sector, private companies and institutional investors that we’ll be able to deliver housing of all tenures at scale, stabilising the market and ensuring more people are able to live better, says Rick de Blaby As someone who runs a business where a third of our workforce [...]
Build, Baby, Build: A manifesto for London’s fourth housing boom June 23, 2024 There is a vast amount of capital waiting to be invested in London housing, here’s how the British Property Federation’s Melanie Leech would unlock it… London needs another housing boom. The late 19th century created the Victorian terraces of Zones two and three, the 1930’s ‘Metroland’ developments built much of today’s outer suburbs and the [...]
Election 2024: Angela Rayner slaps down claim Labour would ‘flatten the whole green belt’ June 20, 2024 Angela Rayner has slapped down the suggestion Labour could “flatten the whole green belt” to build homes.