Policy

Online estate agency boss pitches a plan to create 'UK Housing Plc' to 'side-step big house-builders' in an effort get more homes built

Proposed policy overhaul aims 'to provide a better deal for leaseholders who want to purchase the freehold or to extend the lease of their home', while reducing legal costs and helping to prevent unnecessary…

20% of surveyors believe replacing Stamp Duty with a modernised Council Tax would benefit the property market and wider economy

Tenants Fee Bill amendments include new default fee provision, ensuring a landlord or agent can only recover reasonable incurred costs

Mishcon de Reya's Jonathan Legg discusses the implications and uncertainties of new rules on the taxation of gains from UK land for non-residents, which came into play in July

Council invests developers' contributions on a series of community projects, including £1m on new facilities for Paddington Recreation Ground

'We should not be tenants in our own land', declares NZ Finance Minister

With the arrival of Kit Malthouse as the seventeenth incumbent Minister of State for Housing since 1997, one could say that this time, at last, we have someone with real experience of local government…

Showdown with Westminster over the refusal of a 15,000 square foot amalgamation project at The Knightsbridge was due to kick off this week

There has been a 62% increase in the loss of greenfield Green Belt land since 2013, says the Campaign to Protect Rural England

Latest quarterly stamp duty stats, revealing a drop of almost a third of a billion pounds compared with the same period last year, "must represent a concerning picture for the Exchequer", says LCP

The current system allows many second home owners to avoid both council tax and business rates