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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...

Former Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is believed to have become the first MP to take in Ukrainian refugees under the government’s...

Leaseholders in lower-rise blocks of flats will not have to take out loans to remove dangerous cladding under new government rules...

A petition calling on the government to set up an independent enquiry into the cladding crisis has reached a key 10,000...

The Budget has proven more generous than many expected - and with most property taxation left unchanged. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has made...

Former Housing Secretary James Brokenshire has died at the age of 53. The Conservative ex-Cabinet minister, who was diagnosed with lung cancer...

There’s good news and bad news from the shake-up in government ministers and ministries that was presented to the nation last...

Affordability has always been a hot topic when it comes to the property market, and this is doubly true for first-time...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has changed its name to reflect the government’s levelling up agenda. The department’s...

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

It’s been a dramatic week in the world of politics – and this has led to another new Housing Secretary, in...

In a day of unexpected drama, Boris Johnson carried out a surprisingly brutal and widespread Cabinet reshuffle which saw a number...

Robert Jenrick has been sacked from his post as Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary. He was the third major name to...

In what will be seen as the latest win for leaseholders across the UK, it’s been revealed that – following action...

Media reports over the weekend suggest the government is preparing a triple whammy - three measures which may reduce the number...

Proposals to resuscitate the self-build housing sector have been welcomed by the government. Conservative MP Richard Bacon has published an independent report...

Over 55,000 households bought homes through the government’s Help to Buy equity loan scheme in the past financial year - a...

The number of Energy Performance Certificates issued for new build homes in England rose 16 per cent in the year to...

Propertymark has welcomed the move by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick to help make certain leasehold flats more attractive to would-be buyers...

Agents are to be told this week that employees can drop face masks, social distancing and other workplace measures put in...

The government has thrown its weight behind the concept of Unique Property Reference Numbers as a way of speeding up transactions. UPRNs...

Agents have given their backing to the government’s First Homes initiative, offering discounted houses for local people and key workers and...

The Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017 exposed the dangers of inflammable cladding on residential tower blocks, and what has come...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has revealed that what it calls its “second HQ” will be in Wolverhampton,...

Over 300,000 new-builds in England have been purchased using the government's Help to Buy Equity Loan since its launch in 2013. Of the...

The government has set up a committee to push forward ideas on the collective form of homeownership known as commonhold. Housing Secretary...

Labour’s new housing spokesperson is the experienced MP Lucy Powell, who until the weekend was shadow business and consumer affairs minister.  She replaces...

The government has launched a formal consultation process on a new residential property developer tax which is to contribute towards cladding...

Two of Britain’s largest house builders have reacted sharply to calls by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick and the Competition and Markets...

It’s now more than a year since the government offered an additional £4 million to councils to combat rogue landlords. At the...

The government has given details of two new taxes to provide funds to address the cladding problem on high rise tower blocks...

Agents and a wide range of property experts have demanded yet more government funds to end the cladding crisis that is...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced “an exceptional intervention” promising that leaseholders in high-rise buildings above 18 metres will bear no...

An online petition has been started by an independent estate agent seeking a radical overhaul of how homes are sold in...

As we now find ourselves in the UK’s third national lockdown in 10 months, what tenants want, and need from their...

Countrywide and Foxtons have thrown their weight behind an idea to identify every single UK residential property with a unique number. The...

A mortgage lender says it will now accept ‘no-search indemnity insurance’ for residential purchases in a bid to speed up the...

A trade body has called on House Secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene over the growing problem of delays in councils providing...

The housing market is to stay open across the UK, including in the new Tier 4 areas of England. An announcement from Housing Secretary...

Safety checks which are apparently now preventing thousands of owners selling flats are to be eased - but there is confusion...

Watching the government’s surprise press conference a couple of weekends ago the message was clear; we were heading into a gruelling...

An agency in London which was stung by fierce criticism in the spring lockdown has announced its policy for branch activity...

There’s one key takeaway for agents from the weekend’s announcements on the next England-wide lockdown - the housing market is staying...

The housing market is to remain open in the four week lockdown in England. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government...

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

NAEA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a Competitions and Markets Authority investigation into whether consumer protection law has been broken...

The ban on evictions was due to end earlier this month, but following a last-minute U-turn from the government, it has...

Controversial Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick, tipped by some for sacking when the Cabinet is reshuffled next month, appears to be confident...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has confirmed that the First Homes scheme will provide newly built homes at a 30 per cent...

Home owners in England will be entitled to add up to two storeys to the height of their home via a...

It’s a big day for leasehold reform today with the Law Commission due to publish three residential leasehold and commonhold reports. They...

The recommendations to regulate and train the estate agency industry put forward a year ago remain on the Housing Secretary’s desk...

It may be that by the time you read this it’s all over for Robert Jenrick, the Secretary of State for...

Estate agents facing crippling running costs as the wider impacts of the Coronavirus crisis hit home may benefit, at least in...

Controversial Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is the subject of a harshly critical cartoon in The Times which depicts “pigs in the...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick - currently at the centre of a planning controversy - could be sacked in a September Cabinet reshuffle. The...

Housing minister Chris Pincher has now been named in media investigations into allegations concerning his political boss, Robert Jenrick, and the...

Beleaguered Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is under growing pressure to explain his part in a planning decision - now deemed illegal...

The government is extending the eviction ban for a further two months. A tweet early this evening from Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick...

The Metropolitan Police says it’s “assessing” the controversial surrounding the Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick, and a planning decision over which he...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick - accused by some of breaking the lockdown some weeks ago - is now in more hot...

Housing Minister Chris Pincher and Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick stayed well clear of the Dominic Cummings row over the weekend -...

It’s back to work today for England’s estate agents and the housing market - but it’s the start of a new...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is expected to announce tomorrow that the housing market in England can resume with estate and letting...

Details being presented to Parliament today may include information on how agents can return to work in some sort of ‘new normal.’ A 50...

Agencies, many of which campaigned vigorously to be included in the business rates holiday announced in March by the government, have...

Three of the highest profile industry suppliers and house moving services have given government a four-step plan to restart the housing...

Countrywide has added its weight to the campaign asking the government to allow agents to get back to work - and...

It’s been reported that the government is talking with banks and building societies about putting the housing market ‘on ice’ during the...

The government has launched a competition to attract what it calls “the best and brightest talents of the housing industry” to...

The government has - once again - announced the introduction of a New Homes Ombudsman.  The news came yesterday when Housing Secretary...

Earlier this month, Boris Johnson carried out a reshuffle of his cabinet, telling ministers they must 'repay the trust of those...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week - and it’s been a frantic seven days since the last...

The government will not announce a Mansion Tax at next month’s Budget. It was first reported by the Sunday Telegraph a week ago,...

The new housing minister is Christopher Pincher, who for the past decade has been Conservative MP for Tamworth having had a...

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

Unsourced stories in a number of newspapers over the weekend - all likely to have come from government off-the-record briefings -...

The government has announced its First Homes scheme - a policy under which it says some new homes will see their...

The chair of the working group introducing mandatory examinations and qualifications for estate and letting agents says senior politicians will meet...

The proportion of 25 to 34 year olds who own their own home in England has risen for the first time...

The annual conference of the National Association of Estate Agents takes place on February 27 - the date when the future...

He’s a young and very wealthy up-and-coming MP in his 30s, a Cambridge graduate who also studied in the US and...

The government has given details of a scheme allowing 30 per cent reductions for what it calls ‘local first time buyers’...

An estate agent in London claims he did £53m of property deals within hours of the Conservative victory in the General...

November 6 has been declared Budget Day - at least if there is a Brexit deal agreed in principle in the...

In recent years, governments and local councils have sought to change the private rented sector (PRS) to make it more appealing...

The Conservative Party conference agenda, now published, gives the housing issue several bites of the cherry in Manchester next week. Housing minister...

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

It’s been quite a week for news so you might have missed this story - there is yet another boost for...

A well-respected agent who was president of the NAEA just five years ago has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking...

The Housing Secretary says he wants to make home ownership more affordable for first time buyers - which could mean discounts...

With Boris Johnson winning the Conservative leadership election and becoming Prime Minister, he has spent his first few days in office...

If you’d asked me at the start of the year how I thought the political landscape might look now, I wouldn’t...

Hello and welcome to the start of a new week and a new Property Jobs Today column, bringing you the industry’s...

Esther McVey is to be the new housing minister - one of the most seasoned politicians to take the job in...

The new Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government is the relatively unknown Robert Jenrick -  but his new housing...