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Sir Simon Clarke’s call for Rishi Sunak to be ousted from Downing Street may well express what many of his MP...

A new housing minister has been named this afternoon, to replace Chris Pincher. Stuart Andrew has been confirmed by Downing Street as...

Earlier this month, Boris Johnson carried out a reshuffle of his cabinet, telling ministers they must 'repay the trust of those...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week - and it’s been a frantic seven days since the last...

The new housing minister is Christopher Pincher, who for the past decade has been Conservative MP for Tamworth having had a...

Esther McVey has been sacked as housing minister; she was the ninth housing minister in as many years. Her successor is the...

Unsourced stories in a number of newspapers over the weekend - all likely to have come from government off-the-record briefings -...

The chair of the working group introducing mandatory examinations and qualifications for estate and letting agents says senior politicians will meet...

The annual conference of the National Association of Estate Agents takes place on February 27 - the date when the future...

He’s a young and very wealthy up-and-coming MP in his 30s, a Cambridge graduate who also studied in the US and...

An estate agent in London claims he did £53m of property deals within hours of the Conservative victory in the General...

In the firmest sign yet that PropTech has entered the mainstream, Housing Minister Esther McVey recently launched an expert advisory council...

Housing Minister Esther McVey has launched an expert advisory council that the government says is “dedicated to the digital transformation of...

It’s on - although judging by the early lack of enthusiasm amongst the British public, you might be forgiven for thinking...

It was in this very column, back in July, when I wrote about how the British government was starting to take...

Housing minister Esther McVey says Compulsory Purchase Orders and brownfield land registers are to be made digitally transparent.  This will allow CPO...

First details have emerged of the information vendors may have to provide up-front In future transactions if government house buying reforms...

In recent years, governments and local councils have sought to change the private rented sector (PRS) to make it more appealing...

The Conservative Party conference agenda, now published, gives the housing issue several bites of the cherry in Manchester next week. Housing minister...

The new housing minister has admitted that her party has tried to “put a lid” on house price rises and has...

If you thought - perhaps hoped - that five weeks of prorogued Parliament meant a break from politics, think again: the...

Who knows how long any housing minister will last, especially with a General Election widely expected in the coming months. So Esther...

The Liverpool Echo says housing minister Esther McVey, who was born in the city, is now ”reviled” there following comments about poor families. According...

With Boris Johnson winning the Conservative leadership election and becoming Prime Minister, he has spent his first few days in office...

If you’d asked me at the start of the year how I thought the political landscape might look now, I wouldn’t...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week and a new Property Jobs Today column, bringing you the industry’s...

Esther McVey is to be the new housing minister - one of the most seasoned politicians to take the job in...

The new Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government is the relatively unknown Robert Jenrick -  but his new housing...