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30 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Government orders London Mayor to build more homes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/NewBuild-3-400x310.png)
The Government has taken the unusual step of intervening in the London Plan to boost housebuilding in the capital. Housing Secretary Michael...
19 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Ex-PM and Home Secretary raise housing issues in Parliament](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent1-400x310.png)
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and ex-Home Secretary Priti Patel had around three years in Government to sort out housing but...
11 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Ex Boris Johnson adviser unveils housing-focused London Mayor campaign](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Franchise-400x310.png)
A former adviser to Boris Johnson who is running to be the Tory candidate for London Mayor has promised to put...
13 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Greg Clark caught up in Rishi Sunak ‘deprived areas’ furore](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/GregClark-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Greg Clark, who is also the Levelling Up Secretary, has been caught up in the storm surrounding Rishi Sunak...
08 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![New campaign launched in London to boost green investment in the capital](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/SadiqKhan-4-400x310.jpg)
A major new scheme worth half a million pounds is now underway in an effort to promote sustainable investment into housing,...
08 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Seize Putin’s Properties: Mayor wants drastic response to Ukraine](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/SadiqKhan-400x310.png)
London mayor Sadiq Khan says he supports the seizure of property assets connected to the allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The...
28 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Brexit and Boris backer calls for stamp duty to be scrapped](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the chief figures behind Brexit and Boris Johnson’s role as London Mayor is now advising that stamp duty should be...
09 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Sadiq Khan wants review of Covid estate agency openings in London](/img/default/eat.png)
London mayor Sadiq Khan is reported to be asking the Prime Minister to review the status of ‘essential retail’ which can...
14 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Uncle Sam vs Blighty - Two countries separated by a common language](/img/default/eat.png)
The Atlantic Ocean is a vast space – some 4,000 miles eastwards across from the USA until land is met again....
29 February 2020
From: Features
![Agents vent anger at ‘Boris Corbyn’ shock Mansion Tax proposals](/img/default/eat.png)
Agents have reacted angrily to the government contemplating introducing a Mansion Tax, and to the Housing Secretary not ruling out the...
10 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Bah Humbug - Do we do too much for first-time buyers?](/img/default/eat.png)
There are reasons to be optimistic that a majority government will improve the housing market, simply by ending political and economic...
21 December 2019
From: Features
![Party Conferences: what agents should look out for](/img/default/eat.png)
If you thought - perhaps hoped - that five weeks of prorogued Parliament meant a break from politics, think again: the...
14 September 2019
From: Features
![Boris Johnson urged to legislate against tiny ‘Hobbit Homes’](/img/default/eat.png)
A leading figure in urban design is urging new Prime Minister Boris Johnson to stand up for the pioneering space standards...
07 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![What now for the agency industry as Boris Johnson takes over?](/img/default/eat.png)
Our own industry’s upheaval over recent years has been no less dramatic than the turmoil at Westminster. The political earthquake has seen...
23 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Blond ambition - Does Boris Johnson have any housing policies?](/img/default/eat.png)
Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...
22 June 2019
From: Features
![Online agency boss named in Top 100 Power List](/img/default/eat.png)
A slew of bad news stories about online estate agencies may have taken the lustre off the sector in recent weeks,...
06 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: will the real Housing Minister please stand up?](/img/default/eat.png)
Kit Malthouse has been making headlines this week, but – in keeping with his tenure as Housing Minister so far -...
02 February 2019
From: Features
![Why property software needn’t be as changeable as the Housing Minister](/img/default/eat.png)
With the shelf life of recent housing ministers being on a par with football managers, it's perhaps little surprise that we're...
20 July 2018
From: Sponsored Content
![Sadiq Khan steps up pressure to expose foreign ownership of UK properties](/img/default/eat.png)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is stepping up the pressure on government to speed up the delivery of a new public register...
01 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Scrap the bureaucracy and let’s have simple rental regulation](/img/default/eat.png)
That the private rental sector has become the government’s whipping boy for housing problems - landlords in particular, letting agents almost...
14 July 2017
From: Features
![Homes on heavily-polluted main roads may fall in price, says expert](/img/default/eat.png)
“I predict that within a few years, folks advertising properties for rent or to buy will start to show if their property is a...
06 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Property in the capital - London’s night economy](/img/default/eat.png)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s aim of creating a 24-hour city is one step closer with the appointment of London’s first Night...
26 November 2016
From: Features
![Let’s take the higher ground on foreign workers and buyers](/img/default/eat.png)
Some of this week’s headlines - ‘Firms must list foreign workers’ and ‘NHS to no longer rely on foreign doctors’ -...
07 October 2016
From: Features
![What does Sadiq Khan’s victory mean for housing in London?](/img/default/eat.png)
The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to do all in his power to help make London “better” after...
12 May 2016
From: Features
![Post-Brexit slump 'could wipe 50% off portals and Purplebricks' claim](/img/default/eat.png)
The Motley Fool, a widely-read City investment column, says a Leave vote could result in a fall in housing market transaction...
04 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![London mayoral election: A referendum on housing](/img/default/eat.png)
The race to replace London Mayor Boris Johnson has entered its final few days, and like never before, housing is the...
29 April 2016
From: Features
![More agencies say political uncertainty hurting housing market](/img/default/eat.png)
Another agency has warned of the likely market slowdown caused by the June 23 EU referendum and political uncertainty over the...
28 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Right-wing think tank slates London Labour candidate's housing plans](/img/default/eat.png)
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the free market Centre for Policy Studies think tank says the proposals put forward by Labour’s London Mayor candidate...
15 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Let London Mayor set stamp duty level, urges housing commission](/img/default/eat.png)
Sadiq Khan, Zac Goldsmith or whoever else wins the London Mayor election this spring should have the power to levy stamp...
08 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Hunters chief who is now a Conservative MP wants UK to stay in EU](/img/default/eat.png)
Kevin Hollinrake - the founder of Hunters estate agency and now Conservative MP for Thirsk, Malton & Filey - says he is...
23 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![Labour call for 50% affordable housing slapped down by developers](/img/default/eat.png)
A suggestion that up to 50 per cent of new homes built in London should be affordable has come in for...
03 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![Countrywide sets housing challenges for London mayoral candidates](/img/default/eat.png)
Countrywide has taken the unusual step, for an estate agency group, of stepping into next year’s London mayoral election by setting...
22 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Labour mayor hopeful details housing policies](/img/default/eat.png)
Labour’s newly-elected candidate for next year’s London mayoral election says he will name and shame rogue landlords and create a public...
17 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Strong government support for foreign property investors](/img/default/eat.png)
Housing minister has Brandon Lewis has thrown his weight behind the right of foreign investors to purchase buy to let properties,...
18 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![MP's Commons motion wants action on From Russia With Cash](/img/default/eat.png)
An MP has tabled an Early Day Motion calling on the Land Registry to require greater transparency for overseas company purchases...