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![Government urged to resurrect Help to Buy](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
The Government is facing calls to resurrect the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme. The housing support scheme, which provided a Government-backed...
11 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Party Time - housing policies from Labour, Tories and the rest](/upload/images/__thumbs/1%20IndustryViews%20political%20parties%20to%20spell%20out%20housing%20policy%20plans%20at%20conferences%20by%20Graham%20Norwood.jpg/1%20IndustryViews%20political%20parties%20to%20spell%20out%20housing%20policy%20plans%20at%20conferences%20by%20Graham%20Norwood__400x231.jpg)
And suddenly it’s autumn. It’s just six weeks before the clocks change, days are getting shorter and - the real sign...
09 September 2023
From: Features
![Ex-PM and Home Secretary raise housing issues in Parliament](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent1-400x310.png)
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and ex-Home Secretary Priti Patel had around three years in Government to sort out housing but...
11 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![New campaign launched in London to boost green investment in the capital](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/SadiqKhan-4-400x310.jpg)
A major new scheme worth half a million pounds is now underway in an effort to promote sustainable investment into housing,...
08 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Confiscate oligarchs’ homes and sell them to raise cash for Ukraine - call](/upload/images/library/ForSaleBoard-400x310.jpg)
The Mayor of London is demanding ministers take sanctioning Russian oligarchs seriously by moving immediately to seize assets that can then...
08 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Seize Putin’s Properties: Mayor wants drastic response to Ukraine](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/SadiqKhan-400x310.png)
London mayor Sadiq Khan says he supports the seizure of property assets connected to the allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The...
28 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour call for foreign-owned properties register](/upload/images/library/Labour-logo400x310.png)
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, wants the government to put a stop to the capital being used for international money...
07 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Politicians told: Do your bit for homes, owners, buyers, renters](/img/default/eat.png)
The new Mayor of London, to be decided in an election tomorrow, has just received a six point set of demands...
05 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Vote, Vote, Vote - Housing and the 2021 Local Elections](/img/default/eat.png)
Local elections rarely set the pulse racing and this year’s poll on Thursday faces a similar problem. But this time, it’s a...
01 May 2021
From: Features
![Sadiq Khan wants review of Covid estate agency openings in London](/img/default/eat.png)
London mayor Sadiq Khan is reported to be asking the Prime Minister to review the status of ‘essential retail’ which can...
14 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Bah Humbug - Do we do too much for first-time buyers?](/img/default/eat.png)
There are reasons to be optimistic that a majority government will improve the housing market, simply by ending political and economic...
21 December 2019
From: Features
![Will the current political landscape encourage Generation Rent to vote?](/img/default/eat.png)
In recent years, governments and local councils have sought to change the private rented sector (PRS) to make it more appealing...
28 September 2019
From: Features
![Would a Berlin-style rental price freeze work in the UK?](/img/default/eat.png)
Recently a number of politicians and charities have been calling for the introduction of rent controls or rent freezes in the...
24 August 2019
From: Features
![Rent controls won’t solve London’s shortage of affordable housing stock](/img/default/eat.png)
The topic of introducing rent controls in London crops up time and time again in our industry. But it’s been hitting...
16 March 2019
From: Features
![Online agency boss named in Top 100 Power List](/img/default/eat.png)
A slew of bad news stories about online estate agencies may have taken the lustre off the sector in recent weeks,...
06 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour wants London property tax revenue to be given to Sadiq Khan](/img/default/eat.png)
Labour says stamp duty receipts and other tax income from properties in the capital should go to the Mayor, Sadiq Kahn,...
31 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Sadiq Khan steps up pressure to expose foreign ownership of UK properties](/img/default/eat.png)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is stepping up the pressure on government to speed up the delivery of a new public register...
01 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Senior Tory wants 50% of new London homes reserved for Britons](/img/default/eat.png)
Chris Philp, a Conservative MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor Phillip Hammond, says 50 per cent of new homes in...
18 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Scrap the bureaucracy and let’s have simple rental regulation](/img/default/eat.png)
That the private rental sector has become the government’s whipping boy for housing problems - landlords in particular, letting agents almost...
14 July 2017
From: Features
![Property Natter: Q & A with David Cox, ARLA Propertymark](/img/default/eat.png)
In this Natter we have an exclusive interview with David Cox, CEO of ARLA Propertymark and one of the best-known figures...
08 April 2017
From: Features
![Homes on heavily-polluted main roads may fall in price, says expert](/img/default/eat.png)
“I predict that within a few years, folks advertising properties for rent or to buy will start to show if their property is a...
06 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Property in the capital - London’s night economy](/img/default/eat.png)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s aim of creating a 24-hour city is one step closer with the appointment of London’s first Night...
26 November 2016
From: Features
![Khan reveals London has 270,000 homes un-built but with consent](/img/default/eat.png)
London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan says some 270,000 homes in London have been granted planning permission but have not yet been...
25 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Let’s take the higher ground on foreign workers and buyers](/img/default/eat.png)
Some of this week’s headlines - ‘Firms must list foreign workers’ and ‘NHS to no longer rely on foreign doctors’ -...
07 October 2016
From: Features
![London's overseas property buyers win support from an unlikely quarter](/img/default/eat.png)
The importance of overseas buyers in underpinning increasing elements of the capital’s housing market and won support from an unlikely quarter...
06 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![London agency insists many more new homes required across the capital](/img/default/eat.png)
London agency Stirling Ackroyd says planning consents for new homes recovered from previous lows in the second quarter of the year,...
01 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![What does Sadiq Khan’s victory mean for housing in London?](/img/default/eat.png)
The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to do all in his power to help make London “better” after...
12 May 2016
From: Features
![Average London home bursts through £600,000 price barrier](/img/default/eat.png)
The latest price index from LSL Property Services suggests that the average home in Greater London has risen in price by...
12 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![London mayoral election: A referendum on housing](/img/default/eat.png)
The race to replace London Mayor Boris Johnson has entered its final few days, and like never before, housing is the...
29 April 2016
From: Features
![Right-wing think tank slates London Labour candidate's housing plans](/img/default/eat.png)
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the free market Centre for Policy Studies think tank says the proposals put forward by Labour’s London Mayor candidate...
15 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Let London Mayor set stamp duty level, urges housing commission](/img/default/eat.png)
Sadiq Khan, Zac Goldsmith or whoever else wins the London Mayor election this spring should have the power to levy stamp...
08 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Labour call for 50% affordable housing slapped down by developers](/img/default/eat.png)
A suggestion that up to 50 per cent of new homes built in London should be affordable has come in for...