Policy

Housing Minister Brandon Lewis is looking at ways to overhaul the Section 106 agreements process, with an eye to speeding up planning negotiations

What's thought to be London's biggest ever joint extension scheme is currently being weighed up by planners in west London.

Whilst deflation shrinks the value of the equity in a property, the debt rises commensurately and that is not good for the "feel good factor", says Trevor Abrahmsohn...

Nearly a month after adopting a new policy designed to clamp down on subterranean development, the Royal Borough has released detailed guidance and advice for developers and homeowners applying for permission…

Savills' Director of Research Lucian Cook has been moonlighting, penning a swingeingly anti-mansion tax manifesto for right-leaning think tank the Centre for Policy Studies

The Law Commission describes a 'right of light' as an easement that gives a landowner the right to receive light through defined apertures in buildings on his or her land.

Hot on the heels of Australia's proposals to stem the tide of foreign buyers snapping up its top-end real estate, Taiwan has announced plans to impose a whacking great 30% tax rate on overseas property i…

Australia will be unveiling plans to put the brakes on foreign investment into its resi property market "within weeks" in a bid to curtail soaring prices. A

The long-criticised slab rate system for Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) was abolished in the Autumn Statement in December 2014, seeking to bring fairness to property purchase costs and benefiting 98% of homebuyers

The government has been laying out its plans to ditch the "confusing" restrictions on short-terms lets in the capital.

Housebuilding, property taxes and tenancy lengths in the private rented sector have been flagged up as the "bones of contention" in the major political parties' pre-election banter

Despite last year's Stamp Duty overhaul ladling some extra bulk on to the cost of buying a top-end home in Britain, the UK's prime buyer's burden is still pretty competitive in the global marketplace, sa…