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17 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour Government needs 'less chopping and changing' on housing](/upload/images/3%20shutterstock_1487630333.jpg)
Property professionals have called for cross-party support and stability when it comes to housing policy under the new Labour Government after...
08 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Sir Keir wins keys to the House but is it built on shifting sands?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Special%20Logo's/Property%20Natter.jpg)
So it’s a Labour landslide but it’s not like 1997. I remember the last time as if it were yesterday. May 1st, 1997....
06 July 2024
From: Features
![Agents urged to take advantage of new MPs in 'listening mode'](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
An industry expert has called on agents to actively lobby new MPs to influence housing policy – whoever wins the election. Neil...
03 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Industry Views - There will be no excuses if Labour fails on housing](/upload/images/1%20--%20Industry%20Views%20-%20The%20Housing%20Battleground%20for%20General%20Election%202024.png)
It’s all over bar the voting, so let’s cut to the chase. Labour will win on July 4, big time. Even a...
29 June 2024
From: Features
![Inflated expectations? Be a pragmatic advisor in an uncertain market](/upload/images/RPT%20EAT%2026-06-24.png)
The recent dip in inflation to 2% for the first time in three years brings a glimmer of optimism in the...
26 June 2024
From: Features
![Tory Housing Policies Miss Out On Poll Position](/upload/images/1%20--%20PROOFED%20--%20Industry%20views%20Tory%20Housing%20Policies(1).png)
You have to wonder who is advising Rishi Sunak these days. Months ago, Silverstone must have seemed a terrific venue to hold...
15 June 2024
From: Features
![Property Natter - Mistakes, milkshakes and military memories - what a week!](/upload/images/1%20--%20Proofed%20--%20Mistakes%20milkshakes%20and%20military%20memories%20-%20Natter.jpg)
In a week when the election campaign descended into claim and counterclaim of lies over tax plans and Nigel Farage was...
08 June 2024
From: Features
![Industry Views - Labour Agrees New Housing Policies](/upload/images/2%20--%20Proofed%20--%20EAT%20-%20IndustryViews%20(007)%20Labour's%20housing%20pledges.png)
You may not have realised, but yesterday, the new government’s housing policy was agreed. No, I’m not talking about the new ‘Freedom...
08 June 2024
From: Features
![General Election 2024: Rightmove ‘disappointed’ at lack of housing focus](/upload/images/Election%20housing%20.jpg)
Rightmove has criticised the lack of focus on housing policy during the first General Election TV debate this week. Housing was rarely...
06 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Will housing finally get a mention in first General Election debate?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Political parties have been pretty quiet on housing policy during the General Election campaign and industry groups are hopeful that tonight’s...
04 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Industry Views - Keir! Rishi! - What About Housing?](/upload/images/1%20--%20Proofed%20--%20Keir%20Rishi%20-%20what%20about%20housing%20industry%20views.png)
And so we wait. The election, still only a week old and with almost five left to go, has served up main...
01 June 2024
From: Features
![Industry Views - The Housing Battleground for General Election 2024](/upload/images/1%20--%20Industry%20Views%20-%20The%20Housing%20Battleground%20for%20General%20Election%202024.png)
So we’ve been sent the ‘Save The Date’ card - it’s July 4. Now all we need is the invitation to the...
25 May 2024
From: Features
![Jonathan Rolande - More To Be Done To Address Housing Imbalance](/upload/images/shutterstock_2271512647(2).jpg)
A recent announcement by housing giants Persimmon has been heralded as a welcome boost to the property sector. In a trading update they...
03 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Huge survey to assess housing problems in ‘crunch county’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyStats-400x310.png)
Thousands of people will be invited to take part in new research to help provide information on why one particularly badly...
26 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Industry Views - Airbnb Crackdown - this time it's not just Michael Gove...](/upload/images/1%20--%20Proofed%20--%20EAT%20-%20IndustryViews%20-%20Purplebricks%20is%20right.png)
It’s tempting to think that Michael Gove’s proposed clampdown on Airbnb-style short lets is a uniquely British form of small-mindedness, part...
20 April 2024
From: Features
![The impact of abolishing Multiple Dwellings Relief on Housing](/upload/images/4%20Proofed%20%20--%20The%20impact%20of%20abolishing%20Multiple%20Dwellings%20by%20Dominic%20Stead%2C%20Property%20Director%2C%20My%20Future%20Living.jpg)
Today, I am reflecting on the Chancellor’s surprise Spring budget decision to abolish multiple dwellings relief for Stamp Duty Land Tax...
16 March 2024
From: Features
![Warm words and cold comfort on the menu for Budget Day](/upload/images/3%20Warm%20words%20and%20cold%20comfort%2C%20by%20Rollo%20Miles.jpg)
Last weekend, Levelling Up and Housing Secretary, Michael Gove wrote in the Sunday Times that the nation’s housing crisis was so...
17 February 2024
From: Features
![Industry Views - Why Are Housing Ministers So Mediocre These Days?](/upload/images/1%20Whay%20are%20housing%20ministers%20so%20mediocre%20-%20IndustryViews%20(005).png)
Sir Simon Clarke’s call for Rishi Sunak to be ousted from Downing Street may well express what many of his MP...
27 January 2024
From: Features
![Building society backs Stamp Duty cut for downsizers](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/StampDuty1_400x310.png)
Housing policy should focus on making better use of existing stock as well building more homes, a new report claims. A report...
09 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Government publishes new housing policy but will it get Britain building?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Developments/Construction-400x310.png)
The Government has published long-awaited reforms to its National Planning Policy Framework, confirming that local housebuilding targets will be advisory rather...
20 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![The housing market needs a real plan for growth](/upload/images/3%20--%20Proofed%20by%20Peter%20--%20Reapit%20Feature%2006%20Dec%20-%20The%20Housing%20market%20needs%20a%20real%20plan%20for%20growth%20FINAL.png)
There has no doubt been many commenting on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s recent Autumn Statement held a couple of weeks ago. We...
09 December 2023
From: Features
![The housing market needs a real plan for growth](/upload/images/RPT%20Feature%200612.png)
There has no doubt been many commenting on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s recent Autumn Statement held a couple of weeks ago. We...
06 December 2023
From: Features
![Wrong To Buy - our worst ever housing policy](/upload/images/__thumbs/1%20Proofed%20----%20%20EAT%20-%20IndustryViews%20(003)%20-%20October%202023%20by%20Graham%20Norwood.jpg/1%20Proofed%20----%20%20EAT%20-%20IndustryViews%20(003)%20-%20October%202023%20by%20Graham%20Norwood__400x267.jpg)
What a waste. Islington council announced in recent days that it will buy back 310 ex-council houses this winter, to add to...
21 October 2023
From: Features
![Michael Gove’s Wasted Opportunity](/upload/images/__thumbs/1%20EAT%20-%20IndustryViews%20(002)%20Michael%20Gove%20wastes%20opportunity%20by%20Graham%20Norwood.jpg/1%20EAT%20-%20IndustryViews%20(002)%20Michael%20Gove%20wastes%20opportunity%20by%20Graham%20Norwood__400x194.jpg)
Talk about a wasted opportunity. The Conservative party conference - just finished, and possibly the last one before a General Election -...
07 October 2023
From: Features
![Party Time - housing policies from Labour, Tories and the rest](/upload/images/__thumbs/1%20IndustryViews%20political%20parties%20to%20spell%20out%20housing%20policy%20plans%20at%20conferences%20by%20Graham%20Norwood.jpg/1%20IndustryViews%20political%20parties%20to%20spell%20out%20housing%20policy%20plans%20at%20conferences%20by%20Graham%20Norwood__400x231.jpg)
And suddenly it’s autumn. It’s just six weeks before the clocks change, days are getting shorter and - the real sign...
09 September 2023
From: Features
![Property Natter - The long arm of the law that changed the property market](/upload/images/Property%20Natter.jpg)
It was a genuine pleasure to read this week about Yorkshire estate agent Ian Bradbury who clocked up 40 years selling...
19 August 2023
From: Features
![Renters Reform: a mistiming in regulatory direction?](/upload/images/RPT%20Feature%200507.png)
The long-awaited Renters Reform Bill was finally introduced in Parliament in May, but is it really good news for tenants? Several...
08 July 2023
From: Features
![Government slammed by public over housing failures](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/DamagedProperty-400x310.png)
A new survey suggests the overwhelming majority of the public are critical of the government’s apparent housing failures. A study of 1,323...
01 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Housing policy must go beyond election cycles - warning](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/NewBuild-3-400x310.png)
Housing policy formation must go beyond electoral cycles, academics have warned. A group of Cambridge University alumni has teamed up to urge...
05 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour outlines housing market policy](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/NewHomeowners1-400x310.png)
The Labour Party has outlined three ways it will help first-time buyers onto the housing ladder as it ramps up its...
12 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![New SNP leader: Scottish agent warns of ‘difficult times’ for property market](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The election of Humza Yousaf as the new leader of the Scottish National Party yesterday was immediately met with concern from...
28 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rishi-Tweedle-Dum and Liz-Tweedle-DumDum](/img/default/eat.png)
When it comes to housing policy, the Conservative MPs have given their party a choice between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle DumDum. Rishi...
23 July 2022
From: Features
![Consumer confidence drops sharply amongst potential buyers](/upload/images/library/Sad-Tenants-Evicted-400x310.jpg)
The Building Societies Association’s regular confidence tracker about the housing market shows rising pessimism over interest rates, the escalating cost of...
18 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Shut It! Conveyancing chief welcomes end to t-annoyance](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/TrainTannoy-400x310.jpg)
High profile conveyancing supremo Rob Hailstone makes many announcements about government and industry housing policy - but he is less keen...
26 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter – my predictions for the property market in 2022](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyNatter-2019-400x310.png)
As this is the first Natter back since the Christmas break, I should like to first wish all our readers a...
15 January 2022
From: Features
![Mark Hayward sets new retirement date (once he finds his replacement)](/upload/images/Logos/NAEA-ARLA-Propertymark-400x310.jpg)
Mark Hayward has set a new retirement date for the end of this year. Hayward, previously chief executive of Propertymark, was due...
24 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Pincher survives as ruthless Johnson reshuffle concludes](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/BorisJohnson-4-400x310.jpg)
Boris Johnson's sudden and unexpectedly ruthless Cabinet reshuffle, which drew comparisons with Margaret Thatcher's 'purge of the wets' in 1981, ended...
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Older buyers being excluded from housing market, warns agency](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/RetirementLiving-1-400x310.jpg)
An estate agent says the housing market now has a hidden characteristic - an absence of homes that are friendly for...
26 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Prince Philip: how the property landscape changed during his century](/img/default/eat.png)
For many, the funeral of HRH Prince Philip will be a solemn affair, while for some it will also be a...
17 April 2021
From: Features
![“Deplorable” government slammed for years of housing problems](/img/default/eat.png)
A scathing document produced by MPs slams the government for its “deplorable” housing policies which are "invented, abandoned and reinvented" -...
09 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark names new leader for revamped organisation](/img/default/eat.png)
Propertymark, which will from later this year combine both the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting...
24 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Housing Minister McVey to be sacked this week, briefings suggest](/img/default/eat.png)
Unsourced stories in a number of newspapers over the weekend - all likely to have come from government off-the-record briefings -...
10 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents’ delight at another sign that the market is on the rise](/img/default/eat.png)
Annual house price growth increased to 4.1 per cent in January, up slightly from the end of 2019, according to Halifax...
10 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Tory tiff prompts gossip about yet another new Housing Minister](/img/default/eat.png)
He’s a young and very wealthy up-and-coming MP in his 30s, a Cambridge graduate who also studied in the US and...
16 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![What next for property in 2020?](/img/default/eat.png)
After a year dogged by Brexit deadlock, political turmoil, and slow growth, estate agents’ confidence in the property market hit a...
04 January 2020
From: Features
![House prices to rise in 2020 according to almost all analysts](/img/default/eat.png)
The scores are in….and it looks like house prices are going to rise gently in 2020 according to forecasts from almost...
02 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: what has the last decade meant for the property industry?](/img/default/eat.png)
Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...
14 December 2019
From: Features
![General election 2019: The housing crisis remains a top issue](/img/default/eat.png)
With Brexit still unresolved, the domestic agenda has been pushed from the headlines by the seemingly overwhelming public and political discord...
07 December 2019
From: Features
![Labour’s housing energy efficiency plan to cost £60 billion](/img/default/eat.png)
A Labour proposal to dramatically improve energy efficiency in almost every British home would cost an estimated £60 billion. The upgrades would...
04 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Esther McVey is Housing Minister; Robert Jenrick is Housing Secretary](/img/default/eat.png)
The new Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government is the relatively unknown Robert Jenrick - but his new housing...
24 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![What now for the agency industry as Boris Johnson takes over?](/img/default/eat.png)
Our own industry’s upheaval over recent years has been no less dramatic than the turmoil at Westminster. The political earthquake has seen...
23 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property transactions: a simple case of basic arithmetic](/img/default/eat.png)
With somewhere in the region of 1.2 million property sales transactions being completed each year, and 16,500 estate agents actively vying...
06 July 2019
From: Features
![There’s never been a better time for property to rise above politics](/img/default/eat.png)
Four years ago, as we approached the general election, Andrews Property Group held a roundtable debateon the impact the election might have...
08 June 2019
From: Features
![Shelter and Generation Rent? Radical? Don’t make me laugh…](/img/default/eat.png)
Campaigning groups like Generation Rent and Shelter like to think they are simultaneously edgy and radical; likewise some think tanks believe...
30 March 2019
From: Features
![Rent controls won’t solve London’s shortage of affordable housing stock](/img/default/eat.png)
The topic of introducing rent controls in London crops up time and time again in our industry. But it’s been hitting...
16 March 2019
From: Features
![Our homes are ‘woeful’ for older people, claims pressure group](/img/default/eat.png)
The vast majority of people want homes built as standard for all age groups - a contrary view to those in...
26 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Review – what did we learn from the Guild Conference?](/img/default/eat.png)
Alongside hundreds of agents and suppliers, I recently attended the Guild of Property Professionals’ annual conference. As ever, it was a great...
26 January 2019
From: Features
![Is that it? Industry downbeat after lacklustre Budget for housing](/img/default/eat.png)
The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...
30 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![May's new housing adviser is ex-Shelter ex-Livingstone policy chief](/img/default/eat.png)
Theresa May has appointed a controversial former Shelter executive as her new housing policy adviser working in Whitehall. Toby Lloyd was until...
01 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Eight months to make a difference to UK housing](/img/default/eat.png)
One day, I’ll sit down to write for Estate Agent Today and I won’t express my dismay at the lack of...
24 March 2018
From: Features
![Housing: its part in Theresa May's downfall](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s probably unwise to write too much about politics these days. The most fanciful predictions turn out to be less wild...
03 February 2018
From: Features
![What next for property in 2018?](/img/default/eat.png)
What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...
30 December 2017
From: Features
![UK housing: All change...or not as it turns out](/img/default/eat.png)
Here we are again: another much anticipated Budget has been and gone and, yet, still nothing much has changed! Yes, of course,...
02 December 2017
From: Features
![Should agents pay for an increased Trading Standards budget?](/img/default/eat.png)
A large part of the DCLG’s Call for Evidence on the home buying and selling process focuses on the role of...
18 November 2017
From: Features
![Party conference season - A housing plan for UK Plc](/img/default/eat.png)
And so concludes another party conference season. We’ve followed the great and the good (both terms are debatable) around Torbay, Bournemouth,...
07 October 2017
From: Features
![The market’s missing homemovers](/img/default/eat.png)
It appears activity in the housing market in 2017 will be around 15% down on 2016. The number of housing transactions...
16 September 2017
From: Features
![Is the stigma of renting at odds with our broken housing market?](/img/default/eat.png)
I’ve written before about the impact of headlines on the property industry. Interest rate speculation. Market booms and busts. Demand...
16 September 2017
From: Features
![London’s prime housing market is no longer roaring](/img/default/eat.png)
Being a leading world-class city comes at a price – they are the most expensive for occupiers and the most lucrative...
14 July 2017
From: Features
![Isn’t it time that property remembered what is important?](/img/default/eat.png)
For those of us working within the property sector, we’re in the very midst of what, for generations, has been one...
14 July 2017
From: Features
![Agency chief condemns Theresa May's housing disaster](/img/default/eat.png)
First time buyers have finances stretched beyond their means, buy to let is attracting fewer investors because of taxes, and affordability...
13 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Property needs to rise above politics now more than ever](/img/default/eat.png)
“Housing policy should be in independent hands.” That was the conclusion of a panel debate that Andrews held, not recently, but two...
17 June 2017
From: Features
![UKIP pledges homes below £100k - but they can't be sold on open market](/img/default/eat.png)
The UK Independence Party’s housing policy for the General Election hinges around a huge expansion in modular factory-built housing - but...
26 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Housing policy progress will suffer thanks to snap General Election](/img/default/eat.png)
Not only did Theresa May stun everyone with her decision to call a ‘snap election’ but with the campaign now underway...
29 April 2017
From: Features
![Stamp duty reform holds the key to meaningful market change](/img/default/eat.png)
I wrote last month about how the Government, in introducing a 3% stamp duty surcharge on second homes, had scored an...
22 April 2017
From: Features
![Agents back likely Conservative victory in June General Election](/img/default/eat.png)
Estate agents have been broadly supportive of the decision by Prime Minister Theresa May to push for a snap General Election...
19 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![New independent housing research unit to launch this summer](/img/default/eat.png)
A substantial new research body is to be launched this summer with a remit of looking at six overlapping aspects of...
12 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Another part of the UK prepares to scrap Right To Buy](/img/default/eat.png)
Wales is the latest part of the UK to formally scrap the policy which was once the flagship of Margaret Thatcher’s...
14 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Portillo attacks Tory government over owner-occupier 'freefall'](/img/default/eat.png)
Former Conservative minister Michael Portillo has made an outspoken attack on his former party over its switch of housing policy emphasis from...
10 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Budget 2017 wishlist: Expectations from the property sector](/img/default/eat.png)
Looking ahead to the Spring Budget this week, the Chancellor Philip Hammond will be obliged to face up to the implications...
04 March 2017
From: Features
![What homes will we build – where will government policy go next?](/img/default/eat.png)
Over 168,000 new homes were completed in the year to March 2016, according to data released by the government, over 15,500...
28 January 2017
From: Features
![Is a long-term housing policy too much to ask for?](/img/default/eat.png)
Just a couple of weeks ago, we waited with anticipation to see what the new Chancellor, Philip Hammond, would say in...
09 December 2016
From: Features
![Sceptical welcome to government's new housing market policies](/img/default/eat.png)
There has been widespread scepticism from many within the industry that the government will miss its latest house building targets, despite...
04 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Government tipped to reveal major housing policy changes today](/img/default/eat.png)
Speculation was rife over the weekend that the government would today announce major changes to housing policy - possibly shifting the...
03 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Housing must remain top of the government’s agenda](/img/default/eat.png)
With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...
16 September 2016
From: Features
![Leading house builder rips into government over housing policy](/img/default/eat.png)
The government’s housing policy, while helpful outside London, has had a negative effect on the capital according to one of the...
07 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Tories want 'innovative' ideas on building more and cheaper homes](/img/default/eat.png)
The Tory Reform Group has launched a public call for evidence seeking “innovative policy proposals to address the two-fold challenge of...
08 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![May's Day: PM-designate hints at her housing priorities](/img/default/eat.png)
Details have come out of what Theresa May thinks about the current housing market, as she approaches taking over as Prime...
13 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![A new Prime Minister - and will that be followed by an interest rate cut?](/img/default/eat.png)
The news that Theresa May will be installed as Prime Minister tomorrow has immediately stabilished the share prices of estate agents...
12 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Labour housing policy consultation exercise closes tomorrow](/img/default/eat.png)
Tomorrow, June 8, is the closing date for submissions to the Labour Party’s latest consultation on housing policy: it is seeking...
07 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![The weather outside is frightful – A new starter home would be delightful](/img/default/eat.png)
So this weekend some of us will see our first snow of the season. Harsh weather, Christmas adverts and winter generally...
20 November 2015
From: Features
![Labour wants more affordable housing from private developers](/img/default/eat.png)
The new shadow housing minister says Labour will build 100,000 new council houses and housing association homes a year with more...
29 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Government housing action plan coming this week](/img/default/eat.png)
The government says it will publish an action plan this week to explain how it is going to implement some of...
06 July 2015
From: Breaking News
![What Will the Election Result Mean For the Housing Market?](/img/default/eat.png)
Now that the General Election results have been counted and verified, and now that a new parliament has been sworn in,...
02 June 2015
From: Sponsored Content
![A comfy seat at the table](/img/default/eat.png)
This week RICS reported a further drop in the number of people putting their homes up for sale; new instructions fell...
15 May 2015
From: Features
![Election Day: Take housing out of politics, agent pleads](/img/default/eat.png)
The chief executive of Andrews estate agency chain says housing policy should be decided not directly by politicians but by an...