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The Government has taken the unusual step of intervening in the London Plan to boost housebuilding in the capital.   Housing Secretary Michael...

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and ex-Home Secretary Priti Patel had around three years in Government to sort out housing but...

A former adviser to Boris Johnson who is running to be the Tory candidate for London Mayor has promised to put...

Housing Secretary Greg Clark, who is also the Levelling Up Secretary, has been caught up in the storm surrounding Rishi Sunak...

A major new scheme worth half a million pounds is now underway in an effort to promote sustainable investment into housing,...

London mayor Sadiq Khan says he supports the seizure of property assets connected to the allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.  The...

One of the chief figures behind Brexit and Boris Johnson’s role as London Mayor is now advising that stamp duty should be...

London mayor Sadiq Khan is reported to be asking the Prime Minister to review the status of ‘essential retail’ which can...

The Atlantic Ocean is a vast space – some 4,000 miles eastwards across from the USA until land is met again....

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

There are reasons to be optimistic that a majority government will improve the housing market, simply by ending political and economic...

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

A leading figure in urban design is urging new Prime Minister Boris Johnson to stand up for the pioneering space standards...

Our own industry’s upheaval over recent years has been no less dramatic than the turmoil at Westminster. The political earthquake has seen...

Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...

A slew of bad news stories about online estate agencies may have taken the lustre off the sector in recent weeks,...

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

With the shelf life of recent housing ministers being on a par with football managers, it's perhaps little surprise that we're...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is stepping up the pressure on government to speed up the delivery of a new public register...

That the private rental sector has become the government’s whipping boy for housing problems - landlords in particular, letting agents almost...

“I predict that within a few years, folks advertising properties for rent or to buy will start to show if their property is a...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s aim of creating a 24-hour city is one step closer with the appointment of London’s first Night...

Some of this week’s headlines - ‘Firms must list foreign workers’ and ‘NHS to no longer rely on foreign doctors’ -...

The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to do all in his power to help make London “better” after...

The Motley Fool, a widely-read City investment column, says a Leave vote could result in a fall in housing market transaction...

The race to replace London Mayor Boris Johnson has entered its final few days, and like never before, housing is the...

Another agency has warned of the likely market slowdown caused by the June 23 EU referendum and political uncertainty over the...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the free market Centre for Policy Studies think tank says the proposals put forward by Labour’s London Mayor candidate...

Sadiq Khan, Zac Goldsmith or whoever else wins the London Mayor election this spring should have the power to levy stamp...

Kevin Hollinrake - the founder of Hunters estate agency and now Conservative MP for Thirsk, Malton & Filey - says he is...

A suggestion that up to 50 per cent of new homes built in London should be affordable has come in for...

Countrywide has taken the unusual step, for an estate agency group, of stepping into next year’s London mayoral election by setting...

Labour’s newly-elected candidate for next year’s London mayoral election says he will name and shame rogue landlords and create a public...

Housing minister has Brandon Lewis has thrown his weight behind the right of foreign investors to purchase buy to let properties,...

An MP has tabled an Early Day Motion calling on the Land Registry to require greater transparency for overseas company purchases...

The Financial Times says London Mayor and new Conservative MP Boris Johnson is lobbying the government in a bid to persuade...