Policy

New rules mean holiday lets must be rented out for a minimum of 70 days a year to qualify for lower local tax rates.

Countryside charity CPRE estimates there has been a 1,000% increase in homes listed for short-term let across the UK over the last five years

MP and former estate agency boss Kevin Hollinrake has outlined a series of proposals to make Britain's housing market more fair and equitable - including a new wealth tax on overseas buyers of UK property.

Latest proposals are designed to ensure developments are ‘nature positive’, with biodiversity gain ‘at the heart of all decision-making and design’

"The current leasehold system is outdated, unbalanced and broken and we are determined to fix it," says Leasehold Minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh.

House of Lords Committee suggests smaller property developers "should be supported by reducing planning risk, making more small sites available, and increasing access to finance."

It is often said that more books have been written about commonhold than actual commonholds have been created;

Lenders get hit with new targets at the beginning of the year and CEOs will want to make hay while the going is good, writes Alex Ogario

"The rise has been a long time coming, and with inflation now at decade high levels, there really is little alternative," comments Strutt & Parker, while Knight Frank Finance says "it’s clear that the…

Property price growth of around 5% is "a realistic benchmark" across the capital in 2022, says the chief of 17-branch London estate agency Benham & Reeves, while "the return of the prime London market…

"It is necessary to re-introduce some measures to manage the virus," says the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities.

Nathan Emerson, CEO of estate agency trade body Propertymark, shares his predictions for the property market in the coming year.