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Greg Hill, Deputy Chief Executive at top 20 UK housebuilder Hill, comments: “Over the last 20 years we have seen no less than 17 Housing Ministers with each spending an average of just 16 months in the position. If we are... View Article

RIBA President Ben Derbyshire says: “The RIBA looks forward to working with Kit Malthouse MP in his new role. At a time when the country faces a critical housing crisis, there are few roles in government that can have as much of... View Article

Theresa May has appointed Kit Malthouse, MP for North West Hampshire, as minister of state for housing and planning. Malthouse is the fifth housing minister in three years and succeeds Dominic Raab, who served as housing minister for less than... View Article

Commenting on the announcement that Kit Malthouse MP is the new Housing Minister, Brian Berry, Chief Executive of the FMB, said: “Another week, another Housing Minister. The industry has long bemoaned the turnstile approach to this crucial role but the pace... View Article

Paresh Raja, CEO of Market Financial Solutions “With the resignation of David Davis, Theresa May has been dealt a significant blow in her attempts to create a workable, agreeable plan for Brexit. And yet it’s not just the PM who... View Article

City of Wolverhampton Council has gone out to tender on a £4 million contract for the fourth phase of its successful newbuild council housing programme for small derelict sites. The £4 million third phase, started in January and will see... View Article

All comments to be attributed to Matthew Adam, chief executive of digital and financial inclusion support provider We Are Digital. “Earlier this month (08 February), energy watchdog Ofgem announced that it would be raising its maximum price cap by 5.5%.... View Article

A drop in the average UK house price of the scale seen in the last financial crisis would put nearly half a million households at risk of negative equity, the UK’s largest third-party mortgage servicer has revealed. Computershare Loan Services,... View Article

A third of children in social housing and a quarter of children in private-rented accommodation live in overcrowded conditions. The London Assembly is concerned that without enough three and four-bedroom family-sized homes, the problem of overcrowding will get worse in... View Article

Bjorn Conway, CEO, ilke Homes: “ilke Homes welcomes the news that the government’s Housing Implementation Taskforce met at Downing Street today. Homes England’s role is reinforced and there seems to be strengthening cross-Government commitment to dealing with the issues demonstrated by the... View Article

According to the latest ONS figures private rental prices paid by tenants in London grew by 0.4 percent in 2017, stretching the budget of the average London house hunter. Further insights from the LSL Rental Index found that London rents... View Article

It his been reported that the Labour party plans to force landowners to sell their land to the state for a fraction of its value, in order to reduce the cost of constructing additional council houses. Nick Leavey, Partner and Head of the Commercial Property team... View Article

The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) has strongly welcomed the announcement over the weekend that the Government will now be supporting Karen Buck MP’s Private Members Bill on housing and landlords. The Labour MP’s bill seeks to update the... View Article

As the UK’s population is set to exceed the 70 million mark and house prices continue to rise alongside interest rates, solicitors at JMW warn a property crisis will result in more multi-generational households in 2018 than ever before. The... View Article

Sadiq fulfils manifesto promise to launch Rogue Landlord and Agent Checker – London’s first online ‘name and shame’ database to help private renters More than 600,000 renters can now check dodgy landlords and letting agents as records from the first... View Article