William Clutton of Iceni Projects delves into the government’s proposed overhaul of the Community Infrastructure Levy and Section 106 Agreements, as outlined in the recently-published draft Levelling Up & Regeneration Bill.
There is a lot of bad news out there right now and the property market will not be immune from interest rate rises and inflation, writes LonRes chairman William Carrington…
Last year’s “radical” Planning Bill is long gone, replaced with watered-down reforms that promise local referenda on planning decisions and a few other tweaks.
The Renters Reform Bill promises a “new deal” for England’s 4.4 million private rented households, says Downing Street.
There’s not a lot of detail to go on, but early property industry reactions to the latest proposed planning reforms have been less than positive.
A longstanding feature of high-end listings, ‘price on application’, is on the way out after Trading Standards deemed the term both ‘misleading’ and ‘unlawful’. But what do London’s prime property specialists make of the decision, and how will the change impact the market – and marketing process – in the luxury sector?
The Queen’s Speech sets out the government’s legislative agenda for the year ahead.
The Labour Party has won control of Westminster Council for the first time since it was created in 1964.
“The use of ‘POA’ or ‘price on application’ in relation to a listing on a property portal or an agent website is likely to be misleading as it withholds – or in some cases masks – the asking price from consumers,” says National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team
Following this afternoon’s big announcement, the NTS Estate & Letting Agency Team offers its view on the use of ‘POA’ in property listings and whether this contravenes consumer protection legislation…
The Land Registry has confirmed that work is “progressing at pace” on a new public register of overseas property owners – but there’s still no launch date.
“This is an important milestone in our work to fix the leasehold system and to level up home ownership,” says the Leasehold Minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh.