Government

The Commons Environmental Audit Committee has said that demolition and rebuilding adds to climate change and that the emissions created must be reduced to meet ...
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The announcements made by Prince Charles in the Queen's Speech this month included several matters that will affect the property market. Planning The government has ...
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New funding has been introduced by the government through the Build Back Better scheme, which will give home owners the opportunity to claim additional money ...
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The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has been accused of failing to tackle the ‘cost of living crisis’, as the property market begins to react to the ...
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Levelling-up and housing secretary, Michael Gove, is unpopular with many of the UK's major house builders after describing them as a 'cartel'. In his address ...
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The head of the UK's Climate Change Committee, Chris Stark, says we must do more to improve the insulation of our homes. In 2008, just ...
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The London Fire Brigade has described the lack of progress on dealing with potentially unsafe buildings, due to the building materials used in their construction, ...
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The housing secretary, Michael Gove, has confirmed that firms have until March to agree how they will help leaseholders living in buildings higher than 11 ...
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The government's First Homes scheme is being used to offer a discount to first time buyers in England, to help them get on the property ...
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One of the pressures on local housing stock is the lack of incentive for people living in larger homes to move into a smaller property ...
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In his recent budget, the Chancellor announced investment in housing of almost £24 billion, to be released over a period of several years. Here are ...
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The proposed planning reforms announced a year ago are officially being reviewed. In his speech to the Conservative party conference in October, the Prime Minister ...
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Warrington Borough Council's audit and finance committee reported in July that it had advanced over £150 million to an investment company, and was five times ...
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An investigation began in 2019 to investigate leaseholds, after millions of leaseholders faced massive increases in ground rents and the cost of buying the freehold ...
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The elitest of England’s public schools has sparked outrage by proposing to build 3,000 houses in rural East Sussex. Eton’s propaganda eulogises a new town ...
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The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has stopped work being carried out on 69 bridges along disused railway lines, having learned of plans to block dozens ...
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Some of the key factors of recent elections have been making home ownership more affordable for more people, particularly those wanting to purchase first homes, ...
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The cost of building affordable homes in London has tripled, according to the mayor's office, which blamed Brexit and the cladding crisis for the failing ...
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An attempt by the House of Lords to force the government to pay for fire safety work on buildings with unsafe cladding before reclaiming the ...
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Thanks to the coronavirus, no budget was delivered in the autumn but it is hoped that on 3rd March 2021 the Chancellor might deliver a ...
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Wales has been operating a pilot scheme of empty property grants for home buyers. The scheme  promises to help tackle some of the problems associate ...
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The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has recommended changes to Capital Gains Tax (CGT) that could result in costly implications for buy to let property ...
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The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government has published a summary of responses to its consultation on the delivery of the proposed First Homes ...
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In April 2018, housing reforms were announced that would crack down on rogue estate agents and leave greater transparency. However, these reforms are yet to ...
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In October 2019, mortgage affordability rules were reformed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to enable mortgage lenders to help mortgage prisoners, by allowing them ...
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The government's Covid-19 small business grants, in which businesses have been able to claim a £10,000 government grant, is being exploited by greedy second home ...
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Homes England has demanded £750 from a couple living in the town of Redditch in Worcestershire, to formally procure their garden hedge and part of ...
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The Scottish government has announced a new First Home Fund shared equity scheme. The pilot scheme will release £150 million for first time buyers in ...
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Two thirds of the households in England that are headed by someone aged 65 or over are owned outright, that is 6.5 million homes, and ...
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Boris's government has in recent months announced a number of housing policies designed to help home buyers and renters. So, now he can act, who ...
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The Flood Reinsurance Scheme known as 'Flood Re' began in 2016 and is designed to ensure that households in areas at high risk of flooding ...
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A report from Parliament has said the government must 'embrace modern methods of construction or risk missing its target of building 300,000 new homes in ...
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The government's apparent focus on increasing the level of property ownership without consideration of the resulting squeeze in the lettings market is likely to raise ...
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The government has published its proposals for a new independent regulatory body with mandatory qualifications and a code of practice, to oversee estate and letting ...
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There are growing demands across the country to slash stamp duty charges in order to free up the stagnant housing market. New prime minister, Boris ...
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The Local Government Association (LGA) has revealed that the introduction of the Homelessness Reduction Act has led to more people being placed in temporary and ...
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How has the SDLT rate hike affected the property market? An Inflation Report from the Bank of England says that recent increases in Stamp Duty ...
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