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

Watching the government’s surprise press conference a couple of weekends ago the message was clear; we were heading into a gruelling...

An agency in London which was stung by fierce criticism in the spring lockdown has announced its policy for branch activity...

The housing market is to remain open in the four week lockdown in England. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government...

The Times has revealed new allegations concerning the behaviour of Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick. The Cabinet member has been under the spotlight...

NAEA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a Competitions and Markets Authority investigation into whether consumer protection law has been broken...

The ban on evictions was due to end earlier this month, but following a last-minute U-turn from the government, it has...

Controversial Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick, tipped by some for sacking when the Cabinet is reshuffled next month, appears to be confident...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has confirmed that the First Homes scheme will provide newly built homes at a 30 per cent...

As expected within the property industry, the Chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday in his Summer Statement. This now means that...

Home owners in England will be entitled to add up to two storeys to the height of their home via a...

It’s a big day for leasehold reform today with the Law Commission due to publish three residential leasehold and commonhold reports. They...

The recommendations to regulate and train the estate agency industry put forward a year ago remain on the Housing Secretary’s desk...

Estate agents facing crippling running costs as the wider impacts of the Coronavirus crisis hit home may benefit, at least in...

Controversial Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is the subject of a harshly critical cartoon in The Times which depicts “pigs in the...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick - currently at the centre of a planning controversy - could be sacked in a September Cabinet reshuffle. The...

Housing minister Chris Pincher has now been named in media investigations into allegations concerning his political boss, Robert Jenrick, and the...

Beleaguered Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is under growing pressure to explain his part in a planning decision - now deemed illegal...

The government is extending the eviction ban for a further two months. A tweet early this evening from Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick...

The Metropolitan Police says it’s “assessing” the controversial surrounding the Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick, and a planning decision over which he...

Dominic Cummings has been at worst a cause of huge anger to a nation that’s already extremely anxious. At best, he’s been...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick - accused by some of breaking the lockdown some weeks ago - is now in more hot...

Housing Minister Chris Pincher and Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick stayed well clear of the Dominic Cummings row over the weekend -...

It’s back to work today for England’s estate agents and the housing market - but it’s the start of a new...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is expected to announce tomorrow that the housing market in England can resume with estate and letting...

Details being presented to Parliament today may include information on how agents can return to work in some sort of ‘new normal.’ A 50...

Agencies, many of which campaigned vigorously to be included in the business rates holiday announced in March by the government, have...

Three of the highest profile industry suppliers and house moving services have given government a four-step plan to restart the housing...

Countrywide has added its weight to the campaign asking the government to allow agents to get back to work - and...

It’s been reported that the government is talking with banks and building societies about putting the housing market ‘on ice’ during the...

The author of dramatic reform proposals for estate agents has given a clear message to ministers - Get On With It!  Lord...

The government has - once again - announced the introduction of a New Homes Ombudsman.  The news came yesterday when Housing Secretary...

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 government will not announce a Mansion Tax at next month’s Budget. It was first reported by the Sunday Telegraph a week ago,...

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

Agents have reacted angrily to the government contemplating introducing a Mansion Tax, and to the Housing Secretary not ruling out the...

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

The government has announced its First Homes scheme - a policy under which it says some new homes will see their...

The proportion of 25 to 34 year olds who own their own home in England has risen for the first time...

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

The government has given details of a scheme allowing 30 per cent reductions for what it calls ‘local first time buyers’...

A Labour proposal to dramatically improve energy efficiency in almost every British home would cost an estimated £60 billion. The upgrades would...

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

November 6 has been declared Budget Day - at least if there is a Brexit deal agreed in principle in the...

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

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

A £3.6 billion Towns Fund to support towns across England to build prosperous futures through innovative regeneration is a perfect chance...

It’s been quite a week for news so you might have missed this story - there is yet another boost for...

A well-respected agent who was president of the NAEA just five years ago has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking...

The Housing Secretary says he wants to make home ownership more affordable for first time buyers - which could mean discounts...

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

In recent weeks our campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold has continued to gather momentum both in the press and across...

The government has revealed that it’s to ‘test’ the workings of the New Homes Ombudsman before the scheme formally launches. Housing Secretary...

The dust may have settled on the government’s recent announcement regarding housing and property complaints, but opinion is still split on...

Kit Malthouse has been making headlines this week, but – in keeping with his tenure as Housing Minister so far -...

Developers have continued to sell thousands of new-build houses with leaseholds, despite a government pledge to ban the “unscrupulous” practice a...

The National Association of Estate Agents has welcomed the government’s move to ensure most future new-build houses are sold as freehold...

The vast majority of new-build houses are to be sold as freehold with ground rents for new leases capped at £10...

It seems a lifetime ago but in fact we’re approaching just the first anniversary since the government triggered its Call for...

Emoov’s founder Russell Quirk has outlined how he would help Britain get out of its current housing crisis to a Labour...

Sales of holiday homes could be hit as a result of a new £560m tax proposal put forward by Labour.  Under the...

It’s holiday time: schools have broken up, quite a few estate agents are taking time off, and the MPs are in...

Councils across England will have new powers to charge dramatically more council tax on homes left empty for many years following...

The government says its funding schemes such as Help To Buy will no longer be applied to what it calls “unjustified...

A London council is seeking widespread powers to ban For Sale and To Let boards which it claims are seen by...

To say this is a turbulent time for UK politics would be something of an understatement. As I write, the Brexit...

Estate Agent Today understands several major national agencies and some smaller operators are involved in a project to understand why transaction...

A leasehold reform campaigner has called on the government to ensure it publishes its report on leasehold reform before the summer recess at...

The game of musical chairs that has so often gone on with politicians in charge of housing continues today with the...

The Conveyancing Association has backed the government’s calls for extensive reform of the buying and selling process, announced at the weekend. The...

Have you noticed a new turf war going on on the fringes of the agency world? It’s not a high-profile battle like...

An estate agent and former chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the government’s latest drive to build new...

The government has launched a surprise consultation on the creation of a new redress system for customers of agents and others...

Housing minister Dominic Raab took to Twitter to make a Trump-style criticism of trade magazine The Negotiator and its editor, the...

A new national housing agency – Homes England – has been launched by the newly-rebadged Ministry of Housing Communities and Local...