Policy
Tough new clean construction rules come into play for London sites
Construction site managers throughout London are now required to retrofit or replace old, polluting machinery in "a world-first step" to help clean up the capital's air and reduce damaging emissions from…
Required Reading: Understanding Building Regulations
Building regs can sometimes be overlooked in the course of a transaction, but non-compliance can have expensive and potentially dangerous real world consequences.
Resi developers named as London mayoral candidate donors
Some big-name resi firms have been named as major donors to London's mayoral candidates as they ramp up their respective campaigns.
Tax deadline looms for non-doms and overseas owners
Time is running out for non-domiciled individuals and overseas owners to plan for April's changes, says Tom Gauterin and Tom Barber...
What would the UK property market be like with Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister?
Trevor Abrahmsohn doesn't think the UK's residential market would fare particularly well under a Corbyn-led government...
Stumbling Blocks: The brick ‘famine’ stifling London’s housing market
A massive shortfall of bricks is threatening to become the biggest stumbling block for resi developers across the capital, according to new claims that some firms are already turning down opportunities…
Conservation Area Checklist: How to work out if a building ‘makes a positive contribution’
It's one of the key phrases in planning speak, but how do councils decide whether or not a property makes a "positive contribution to the historic and architectural character of a conservation area"?
SDLT reforms ‘backfire’ as London investors split purchases
Buying agency Black Brick has laid into the government's decision to up stamp duty rates for high-value homes, after observing a big knock-on effect in the lower price ranges.
Prime London sales generating lower stamp duty revenues post-reform
If the government were looking to boost Treasury coffers from the change to stamp duty, it looks as if they'll be sorely mistaken.
Cutting affordable housing exemptions for small developments “will heighten the housing crisis”
The High Court's decision this week to strike down exemptions from affordable housing contributions for small developments will heighten the housing crisis, says the Federation of Master Builders...
Immigration Bill: Why Greg Clark should let letting agents do their job
All this unpaid work is making life so tedious that it's almost not worth doing the job at all, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...
London’s prisons set for resi cell-off?
Speculation is mounting over a potential sell-off of London's inner-city prison sites for resi redevelopment.