Policy
City living shake-up to deliver ‘new generation of town houses’
Government confirms major policy change to encourage building on top of existing blocks of flats, houses, shops and offices in built-up areas...
How exactly did you pay for that mansion? British government targets corrupt oligarchs in ‘McMafia style’ shakedown
"If they are an MP in a country where they don’t receive a big salary but suddenly they have a nice Knightsbridge townhouse worth millions and they can’t prove how they paid for it, we will seize that…
Giant contractor caught out by new RBKC enforcement scheme
Council's new 'zero tolerance' drive sees Multiplex served at triple-basement dig on Glebe Place
Labour plans to force property owners to sell development land to the state at a discount
Corbyn's team wants to strip out planning uplifts and hope value, building on a proposal mooted last week by the Conservative Housing Secretary Sajid Javid
Asian investors unlikely to be put off by UK’s public ownership register
Forthcoming measure may even increase the appeal for buyers, says Hong Kong-based investment firm...
Chancellor demands a simplification of the inheritance tax system
Philip Hammond has instructed the the Office of Tax Simplification to look at making IHT "fit for purpose"
Government moves to take a more ‘muscular’ role in forcing developers to build on sites more quickly
Sajid Javid calls for "use it or lose it" planning permissions and more compulsory purchase orders to dissuade developers from "land-banking"
CGT receipts soar as investors flee BTL
Sell-off predicted to push receipts up to the £10bn mark in 2018-19
Land Registry cracks on with digital conveyancing
Changes to land registration rules bring paperless property deals another step closer
Public register of overseas property ownership will be live in early 2021
"World first" register is being designed to tackle money laundering
MPs argue to ‘make stamp duty a seller’s tax not a buyer’s tax’
"In London the stamp duty rates are really knackering the top end of the market", says the MP for Carlisle
One in ten new homes was a former office – LGA
PDR delivering much-needed homes, say local councils, but at what cost?