The Market
OK to build in National Parks; just offset the nature somewhere – Paterson
This sounds like a really bad idea: The Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, is scheduled to announce that developers can build in National Parks, just so long as they do some "biodiversity offsetting" …
Country Pursuit: Rural estates continue to perform
The UK's rural estates continue to perform from an investment point of view, according to Savills' latest data, thanks mainly to strong showings from the resi and agricultural sectors
Infographic illustrates London’s property market schism
We've written a lot about London property prices going up and up like the Serpentine's endless staircase, but it's not all rise across Greater London
Hamptons bags £4m+ Millgate scheme
Millgate Homes has tasked Hamptons International with sales for its new top-end scheme in salubrious Sunninghill, near Ascot.
Hoard It All Before: New landbanking tax proposed for London
London Councils, the cross-party organisation representing all 33 of the capital's local authorities, has demanded an immediate crackdown on alleged landbanking by developers
House price optimism hits highest level since 2010
Britain's householders reckon the value of their bricks and mortar rose for the sixth consecutive month in September, according to Knight Frank and Markit's latest mood reading effort, and are more upbeat …
Letting Away With It: The murky world of “secret commissions”
After a property maintenance firm claimed to "blow the whistle" this week, former lawyer Jonathan Monjack calls for an end to "secret commissions" throughout the rental sector..
Osborne: “Let’s not pretend there’s a housing boom”
George Osborne has told the Institute of Directors that the property market is not overheating
Banda’s Battersea bonanza as bakery scheme sells out in a day
All five apartments in the developer's latest project near Battersea Park have exchanged within 24 hours of launch
Right time for Greenwich as riverside schemes surge
Proving there's more to SE10 than extraordinarily good beer and the birth of standardised time, Greenwich in SE London is currently undergoing a renaissance of neptunian proportions
Treasury targets holiday let tax dodgers
The Treasury is launching a new campaign to chase up landlords - including those with holiday lets - who don't pay every penny of tax due on rents they receive.
HMRC estimates that up to 1
G&T restoration just the tonic for Islington
Some people really deserve to have streets and squares named after them.
An engineer called Hugh Myddelton - who was knocking around in the 1600s - is one of them