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Southwark, Barnet, Camden, Croydon and Newham are the top five London boroughs with the highest number of vacant properties amid a...

Both 'beauty' and ‘gentle density’ are central themes of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).. The notes which accompany the NPPF state...

North Berwick in East Lothian, has been named the best place to live in the annual Sunday Times Best Places to Live...

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

The news in September that Birmingham City Council (‘Europe’s largest local authority’) had been forced to issue a Section 114 notice...

The debate over the Green Belt, and the newly branded ‘grey belt’, has made the headlines a lot recently and will...

In July the Government committed to ‘a new era of regeneration, inner-city densification and housing delivery across England, with transformational plans...

Propertymark has backed the launch of the Government’s £80m brownfield regeneration scheme. Councils across England can now bid for a share of...

Propertymark has written to the Government to ask why attempts to protect leaseholders are being ignored. It comes as the Earl of...

MPs have cast doubt on the Government’s ability to achieve its target of 300,000 new homes per year by the mid-2020s...

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak clashed over housebuilding and housing market support yesterday. Sir Keir questioned Sunak’s...

Just one agent was expelled from The Property Ombudsman (TPO) redress scheme in the latest quarter. TPO has revealed that Price Point...

Two former housing ministers have criticised the Government for scrapping housebuilding targets. The Government officially watered-down proposals for mandatory local housebuilding targets...

A senior peer has vowed to do more to ensure that leaseholders excluded from new building safety regulations get the support...

A Propertymark-supported amendment that aimed to bolster support for leaseholders in unsafe buildings failed to gain approval in the House of...

Rishi Sunak has admitted Conservative Party members were a factor in ditching centralised housing targets. The Government officially watered-down proposals for mandatory...

The property market is broken, Housing Secretary Michael Gove acknowledged yesterday. Despite the Conservative Party being in power since 2010, Gove insisted...

In November, research conducted by The Housing Forum's Futures Network unearthed concern with the potential to meet the requirements set out...

Agency trade body Propertymark has backed calls for greater leaseholder protections as the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill proceeds through Parliament. The...

One of the nice things about this time of year is that slowly, ever so slowly, we begin to emerge from...

Happy New Year, to you all. Now that we’re all back in harness and Christmas feels like a long-distant memory, I...

The removal of housing targets risks a deeper recession and high house prices for generations to come, a planning expert has...

The Government has officially watered-down proposals for mandatory local housebuilding targets as it brings its flagship Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill...

In this guest piece, Andy Jones, Corporate & Build To Rent Director at LRG, looks at whether commercial property can help solve...

Agents and other property professionals have, perhaps unsurprisingly, reacted positively to rumours of a Stamp Duty cut. Prime Minister Liz Truss and...

MPs have criticised the lack of detail in the government’s flagship Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill when it comes to housebuilding...

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

The temperature may be heating up outside and there are also few signs of the jobs market cooling down for agents...

The government is being urged to not just treat housebuilding as a numbers game. It comes as the Department for Levelling Up,...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove and minister Stuart Andrew are set to be grilled by MPs on their property market plans today. The...

Propertymark has expressed hope that the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill will help boost much needed agency supply. The trade body has...

The government last night revealed more details on its flagship Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill including letting local authorities double council...

Agents have pledged to keep a close eye on planning reforms amid a proposed overhaul announced in the Queen’s Speech yesterday. Prince...

The Queen’s Speech has unveiled proposed overhauls on planning, consumer and economic crime laws that could all have an effect on...

The government’s legislative agenda will be set out this morning in the Queen’s Speech and there are plenty of potential laws that...

The JLL property consultancy is opening a branch handling sales and lettings in an area of London often by-passed by rival...

A so-called Climate Innovation District is to be constructed in central Leeds with low carbon homes at its heart. The developer Citu...

The government’s heavily publicised Levelling Up initiative could benefit the UK’s overall property market by approaching £96 billion, it’s been claimed. Some...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

The government should reset planning policy and scrap proposals for thousands of new homes in high-risk flood areas. The think-tank Localis, in...

A part of the Connells Group is telling the new Housing Secretary that he and his government “must do more” to...

The youngsRPS agency now has a fifth branch in the north of England - it’s in Darlington and will cover the...

A London agency has opened its second office in the south of the capital. Kalmars’ new branch is on the historic Old...

The high-end housing market on Jersey has been rocked by a plan from the island’s government which may ban foreign investors from...

Hello and welcome to the end of the week - Friday means charity day, with an update on our industry’s latest...

The Times has revealed new allegations concerning the behaviour of Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick. The Cabinet member has been under the spotlight...

In the latest of a recent flurry of consumer-facing research exercises by Rightmove, a league table of the most popular seaside...

In the latest part of the Natter’s ‘day in the life of’ series, I catch up with Chris Osmond, sales director...

Independent family-run agency Kalmars, which currently has just one office in the capital, has revealed the first of four new branches...

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

A £3.6 billion Towns Fund to support towns across England to build prosperous futures through innovative regeneration is a perfect chance...

Knight Frank has expanded its residential London network with the addition of a new South Bank office. While many agencies have shut...

The Nationwide building society is to go into house building. It has received planning permission to build 239 new homes for sale...

It’s not just the Cabinet and the government where jobs are in flux - there are plenty of moves to announce...

Winkworth’s Bath franchise has been acquired by new franchisees Lucy McIlroy and Matthew Leonard - the latter having been a partner...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

A London independent says it has doubled its valuations so far this year and is opening a new office, despite the...

Jamie Lester, the former Apprentice reality TV star who ran a high-profile estate agency in London until last autumn, has resurfaced...

The property market in northern England, supported in part by the Northern Powerhouse concept, has attracted a lot of media attention,...

The chronic shortage of housing supply in the UK relative to demand has been a national issue for decades. The Government...

Lots of people buy new-build due to the perceived lack of hassle with maintenance, as they are built to the latest...

Over 168,000 new homes were completed in the year to March 2016, according to data released by the government, over 15,500...

The East of England, which takes in areas from Hertfordshire to Norfolk, has recorded the biggest hike in property prices over...

2016 was quite a year – eventful, dramatic, shocking and impossible to predict. In no particular order, we saw Leicester winning...

Forecasts are so last year: who anticipated Bowie, Brexit or Balls for example? Quotes, on the other hand, really ARE last year...

There’s been a bumper mailbag sent to press@estateagenttoday.co.uk this week to mark what must be the height of the fund-raising season...

As many northern cities struggled to recover from the 2008 global financial crisis, the north-south divide returned to plague the British...

Countryside Properties and Telford Homes are the latest housebuilders to report good trading conditions following the result of the EU referendum. Countryside,...

Some of London’s ailing new homes schemes may have been thrown a lifeline by the decision of technology giant Apple to occupy...

In the capital, people will pay a premium to live near great transport links, and as we’ve seen from Crossrail and...

Sheffield in South Yorkshire, which was once one of the leading industrial cities in Britain and is still recognised for its...

Housebuilder St Modwen has been forced to write down the value of the landmark Nine Elms regeneration scheme because “recent transactional...

Research by data company Propcision claims that portal juggling - the listing and re-listing of the same properties - risks inflating...

Fine & Country this week opens a new London office in Bow, coinciding with the imminent start of its TV advertising...

A detailed analysis by Hometrack reveals that new-build transactions - running at roughly 10 per cent of all house sales for...

In January readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given the opportunity to give their views on proposed...

In many respects 2015 has been a good year. Despite global challenges, we have seen a marked improvement in the UK...

JLL today opens its eighth residential office in London, this one at at the Riverlight development in Nine Elms.  The office, which...

With just a few days to go before the formal start of the new football season, the much-publicisied possible easyProperty sponsorship...

The Conservative Party’s manifesto pledge to extend the Right to Buy scheme was confirmed in yesterday’s Housing Bill.  The Bill was part...

There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...

Gentrification is a divisive, provocative issue, but why are estate agents (especially Foxtons) appearing to bear the brunt of the public’s...