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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...