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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has hinted for the second time that he is looking towards property to help fund his...

A leading planning consultancy has claimed that ‘the myth’ that housing developers are hoarding land after gaining planning consent in order...

There’s been a mixed response to the government’s surprise announcement that it would make permanent the right of home owners to...

Communities have missed out on more than 10,000 affordable homes in the past three years as a result of government rules...

Any day now we’ll hear the date for the Autumn Budget: it may be delayed to wait for a Brexit deal...

Savills has suggested that it may be time for a fundamental review of what’s left of the flagship policy of Margaret...

Right To Buy is unsustainable without local councils being given the right to set discounts for their areas and replacing every...

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

A chronic shortage of affordable housing is forcing councils to spend more than £2m a day on temporary accommodation for homeless...

Home ownership rates among 25-year-olds have plummeted by more than half in 20 years, council leaders have warned.  New analysis for the...

Councils have started replacing just one sixth of the number of homes sold under Right To Buy in England in the...

An influential committee of the House of Lords has waded into the argument over whether the government’s new Starter Homes are...

Discounted starter homes could be out of reach for the majority of families in need of an affordable home in many...

A new All-Party Parliamentary Group for Housing and Planning has been announced to address what it calls “the national housing emergency”...