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After months of negative messaging and anti-development sentiment, espoused both nationally by the Government, and locally during May’s local election campaigning,...

New homes – we need more in ‘24 2023 was a year which saw the 'need to moves' active in the housing...

Talk about a wasted opportunity. The Conservative party conference - just finished, and possibly the last one before a General Election -...

The majority of the British public believe the Government is responsible for fixing the country’s housing shortage but few believe that...

The net housing supply in England could be set to fall to decade lows, builders have warned. New analysis by the Home...

Keir Starmer’s announcement about building on the Green Belt attracted some contentious headlines. It immediately thrust housing and planning into the...

After months of negative messaging and anti-development sentiment, espoused both nationally by the Government, and locally during recent local election campaigning,...

The process from a Local Plan allocation to a digger on site typically stretches beyond the length of a five-year political...

Should commercial properties be converted into homes? I think so. I don’t mean the upscale barns becoming large houses, or the fashionable...

And…breathe. For a while back there, the only certainty for the housing market was uncertainty. That isn’t to say the election of Rishi...

How did the housing market transform from incredibly strong - almost too strong - early in the year, to a situation...

The current period of national solidarity over the death of Queen Elizabeth II has embraced the world of property as it...

Government leaks ahead of today’s Queen’s Speech suggest a major planning shake-up is set to stop NIMBY objectors to new homes. News...

Not for the first time, a government policy on housing ends up begging more questions than it provides answers - but...

One of the legends of property journalism, Anne Ashworth, has left her position as editor of The Times’ highly regarded Bricks...

I missed the biggest property story of the week and it’s only scant consolation that almost everyone else seemed to miss it...

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

Estate agency Jackson-Stops says it has discovered precisely how many existing home owners understand the difficulties facing first time buyers in...

The government has published the findings of research which suggest that very few local opponents to new homes will be bought...

Whisper it quietly but it appears that NIMBY-ism is on the wane as increasing numbers of voters are recognising the need...

Now I’m not one to lose sleep over politicians, but it strikes me that Communities Secretary Sajid Javid and Housing Minister...

A campaign group says it wants to state the case for more new homes in a county which until now has...

The government has signalled that it is going to publish a housing White Paper later this year with “significant measures” to...

With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...

This week, 25 years ago the world's first website went live to those of us who were around then.  Amazingly, despite the...