UK real estate sector ‘not ready for GDPR’
Significant tightening of data protection regulation less than a year away, but survey finds 35% of real estate and construction firms have “no awareness at all”
Government calls for evidence to help improve the leasehold & property management system
The DCLG asks the industry if a new independent regulatory body is needed – and if separate bodies should be established for both leasehold and private rented management, and letting agents.
Chancellor mulls SDLT cut for first-time buyers
Hammond is considering “bold measures” to “restore intergenerational fairness” to the housing market
Minister pitches SDLT cuts for energy efficient homes
Property owners need “carrots and sticks” to incentivise energy efficiency improvements in homes
New tax evasion rules are the “most severe punitive measure yet”
HMRC takes tougher stance against offshore tax evaders
Green Belt ‘threats’ double in a year
443 sites currently earmarked for housing within the London Metropolitan Green Belt, says action group, up from 203 last year
Higher rates of stamp duty are likely to stay, says Savills
SDLT income is “just too valuable to the Treasury”
Help-to-Buy is helping high-earners
The £7bn initiative is “being used by investment bankers and doctors”
The Vancouver Experiment: A year on from the foreign buyer tax, how is the market performing?
Has an extra 15% charge on foreign buyers cooled Vancouver’s runaway housing market? And will other cities follow suit?
Theresa May’s speech and the challenge to expand English social housing
Professor Kenneth Gibb explores the reality of delivering mass affordable housing
Carrots & Sticks: What do London’s new affordable housing measures mean for developers?
Hard cash and tough new policy changes have been promised recently; but will the combination work and what are the practicalities for those we’re relying on to deliver?
Developers are ‘on track’ to deliver one million new homes by 2020
More units are being built, says Savills, but we need more development in the South East
