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Sky News is reporting that up to 30 Conservative MPs are threatening to rebel against the government’s approach to ground rents...

What a waste. Islington council announced in recent days that it will buy back 310 ex-council houses this winter, to add to...

It was a genuine pleasure to read this week about Yorkshire estate agent Ian Bradbury who clocked up 40 years selling...

Agency content creators Chris Watkin and Jerry Lyons have paid tribute to 1980s hit film Ghostbusters to promote their services in...

Time is up for Boris Johnson's tenure as Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, serving 3 years and 44...

First off, my own quick tribute to the Queen, who died on Thursday afternoon aged 96. Despite her age and declining...

Anyone working in the property market should have at least one eye on supply. Of course, it’s a constant issue for...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced that he is considering extending Margaret Thatcher’s Right-to-Buy scheme, that gives council tenants the chance to...

What a difference two months and some local elections make. Cast your minds back to March 9 and the annual report of...

Boris Johnson's sudden and unexpectedly ruthless Cabinet reshuffle, which drew comparisons with Margaret Thatcher's 'purge of the wets' in 1981, ended...

Few political policies have such a ring of the past as rent controls - they were last seen in this country...

The death has been announced of Colin Lowman, a veteran south London estate agent who had a 64 year career in...

With this summer marking forty years since Margaret Thatcher came to power, her legacy continues to invoke both celebration and consternation...

Campaigning groups like Generation Rent and Shelter like to think they are simultaneously edgy and radical; likewise some think tanks believe...

Phil Spencer is on the warpath against “constant tinkering” by government in housing matters - and instead, he wants the problems...

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

An investigation by the BBC has revealed that councils are spending million buying back homes they sold at a discount under...

Wales is the latest part of the UK to formally scrap the policy which was once the flagship of Margaret Thatcher’s...

The huge rush to acquire buy-to-let property in the first quarter of the year ahead of the stamp duty change deadline...

Right To Buy - the controversial sell-off of council and housing association homes initially introduced as a flagship of Margaret Thatcher’s...

London house prices rose by 251 and 209 per cent respectively during Thatcher’s and Blair’s time at Number 10 - but...

The glorious thing about the referendum on our EU membership is that four weeks today it will all be over –...

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

I’m sure I’m not the only estate agent confused by the Government’s approach to residential property ownership. Many of the current ministerial...

I write this article on the day of the General Election so you’ll forgive the political analogies. In particular, how any...

10 Downing Street is now worth a notional £6,312,292 - a hefty level of appreciation over the £4,574,831 it was worth...

Margaret Thatcher may have given the country Right To Buy and David Cameron has created Help To Buy but when it...

Looking back to the 1980s, it was General Election time and Michael Foot had released the Labour party manifesto. The party was...