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![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
![Former Housing Secretary dies at the age of 53](/upload/images/library/JamesBrokenshire-400x310%20(2).jpg)
Former Housing Secretary James Brokenshire has died at the age of 53. The Conservative ex-Cabinet minister, who was diagnosed with lung cancer...
08 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Labour housing supremo moves to new role - replacement named](/img/default/eat.png)
Labour’s long-standing housing spokesman, John Healey, has been moved to become shadow defence secretary on the front bench of new leader...
07 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![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
![Election 2019: what agents should expect from the main parties](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s on - although judging by the early lack of enthusiasm amongst the British public, you might be forgiven for thinking...
01 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour bid to seize empty homes and squalid rental properties](/img/default/eat.png)
Labour will this week discuss plans to allow councils to compulsorily purchase homes left empty for six months. Young Labour - a...
23 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![What would a Corbyn government mean for sales and lettings?](/img/default/eat.png)
While media attention has been on Theresa May, Brexit and the Tories, chatter in the agency industry has been about what...
25 May 2019
From: Features
![Labour plans to control house prices dismissed as “bordering on the insane”](/img/default/eat.png)
Labour is proposing two methods of controlling house price rises should it win the next General Election - and the ideas...
11 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour housing guru disagrees with party's breakaway MPs](/img/default/eat.png)
Labour’s housing spokesman, John Healey, has spoken out against the split in the party which has so far seen eight MPs...
21 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Emoov boss tells Labour conference how to solve housing crisis](/img/default/eat.png)
Emoov’s founder Russell Quirk has outlined how he would help Britain get out of its current housing crisis to a Labour...
24 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Holiday home market could be hit by Labour's £560m tax plan](/img/default/eat.png)
Sales of holiday homes could be hit as a result of a new £560m tax proposal put forward by Labour. Under the...
24 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![No key speech by Labour housing spokesman at party conference](/img/default/eat.png)
Labour’s shadow housing minister John Healey is reported to be one of a number of prominent front bench opposition spokespeople being...
18 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Questions asked over government's '1m new homes' figure](/img/default/eat.png)
A trade publication claims the UK’s statistics watchdog is to hold talks with a Whitehall department about the government’s much-vaunted 'one...
21 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Housing White Paper out on Monday... or Tuesday... or...](/img/default/eat.png)
Confusion surrounds the timing of the government’s eagerly-anticipated White Paper on housing. Respected property industry weekly magazine Estates Gazette has tweeted that...
12 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![New homes: Sajid and Gavin must do better](/img/default/eat.png)
Now I’m not one to lose sleep over politicians, but it strikes me that Communities Secretary Sajid Javid and Housing Minister...
07 January 2017
From: Features
![So just who is Britain's most successful modern housing minister?](/img/default/eat.png)
The Daily Mail has calculated which of the 13 housing ministers in office before this autumn has been the most successful,...
21 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Mortgages, not more homes, key to increased home ownership](/img/default/eat.png)
The long-awaited Redfern Review has recommended that improved access to mortgage finance and improved income levels for first time buyers are...
17 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Number of home owners under 45 drops by 850,000 in just six years](/img/default/eat.png)
The Labour Party claims there has been a strikingly large reduction in the number of under-45s who own a home -...
28 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Still no Labour shadow housing spokesman after Healey resignation](/img/default/eat.png)
In case you were wondering, it appears that the Labour party has still to find someone to replace John Healey as...
05 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Shadow housing chief is one of dozens of Labour front-benchers to quit](/img/default/eat.png)
The haemorrhage of Labour spokespeople now includes the party’s respected shadow housing minister John Healey. His letter to party leader Jeremy Corbyn...
28 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Uncertainty over timing of Labour's housing review exercise](/img/default/eat.png)
The timing of Labour’s housing review, which has until now been closely associated with John Healey, appears uncertain following the shadow housing...
28 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Housing reviews: A little less conversation, a little more action...](/img/default/eat.png)
As we all know, Peter Redfern is critical to the future of the British housing market and.... What? Wait? You don’t know...
13 February 2016
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
![Labour's top priority 'to halt decline in home ownership'](/img/default/eat.png)
The newly-appointed shadow housing minister says his first priority is to arrest the long-term fall in home ownership in Britain. John Healey...