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Flat owners have seen their service charges rise by 8% over the past year, research suggests. A new service charge index launched...

The Building Safety Act will cause further delays to the home moving process, a senior industry executive has warned. Rob Hailstone, chief...

With no ease up on the cost of living crisis, understandably many agents’ primary concern is whether or not their tenants...

From the 23 January 2023, the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 came into effect for multi-occupied residential buildings. This is what...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has committed to leasehold reform and fixing cladding issues before the next election. It comes as the Government...

The latest White Paper from the Institute of Residential Property Management (now part of The Property Institute) has called for customers...

It’s the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell fire tragedy, but are high rises any safer today than they were then? On 14th...

The government is threatening to deny planning consent to developers who refuse to pay towards the removal of unsafe cladding on...

A company linked to the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower is being excluded from the government’s Help to Buy scheme, pending the outcome...

Volume house builder Taylor Wimpey has announced a pre-tax profit for the first half of this year of £287.5m - and...

Propertymark has welcomed the move by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick to help make certain leasehold flats more attractive to would-be buyers...

The Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017 exposed the dangers of inflammable cladding on residential tower blocks, and what has come...

The government has given details of two new taxes to provide funds to address the cladding problem on high rise tower blocks...

Agents and a wide range of property experts have demanded yet more government funds to end the cladding crisis that is...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced “an exceptional intervention” promising that leaseholders in high-rise buildings above 18 metres will bear no...

Labour has entered the cladding controversy by calling a vote in the House of Commons to force government action on the...

The Daily Mail has mocked housing minister Chris Pincher for advising people to going £174-a-bottle champagne while awaiting the rollout of...

Safety checks which are apparently now preventing thousands of owners selling flats are to be eased - but there is confusion...

Ed Mead has joined a growing chorus demanding government action on the cladding crisis. He is one of the industry’s leading figures from...

Survivors and bereaved family members from the Grenfell Tower fire have joined forces with residents trapped in allegedly dangerous flats in...

The head of a firm that has been creating digital property log books for well over a decade says the house-moving...

An estate agency has been fined £30,000 for waiting until minutes after the sale of a flat was completed to tell...

Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...

Labour’s shadow housing minister John Healey is reported to be one of a number of prominent front bench opposition spokespeople being...

In this week’s Natter I’m going to get all political. Don’t worry, I won’t be giving my opinions on Brexit, Trump...

Local councils say there must be an immediate and fast-moving review of building regulations in the light of the Grenfell Tower...

A London agency says it’s angry that out of 200,000 homes officially classified as long term empty across the UK, just...

Housing minister Alok Sharma has blocked some of his Twitter followers, accusing them of “abusive language”.   Sharma has a relatively modest 9,169 followers...

New housing minister Alok Sharma is set to make his first key speech this week, at the Housing 2017 conference in...

The Queen’s speech to the British parliament this week was a scaled-back affair, which was unsurprising given the Grenfell Tower fire,...

Today we’re publishing what we think is our longest-ever list of charitable activities being conducted by agents and their supporters -...

Harry Hill - former chief executive of Countrywide and founder of Rightmove - has sharply criticised the appointment of Theresa May’s...