Policy
Government moves to overhaul the property ombudsman landscape
Consultation launched to improve the housing complaints and redress system
Nigerian government hotlines crash as UK property owners ‘panic’ over UWOs
Federal Ministry of Finance’s Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme inundated with 'frantic' HNWI in the wake of the UK's introduction of Unexplained Wealth Orders...
Welsh government pushes on with a land-banking levy
A new vacant land tax modelled on the new Irish system "could help to incentivise more timely development"
TfL offers ten small sites to SME resi developers
Pilot plots for Sadiq Khan's "Small Sites, Small Builders" scheme aims to get smaller property developers involved in public sector site opportunities
Westminster’s wealthiest residents get behind ‘voluntary contribution’ initiative
Over half of owners with properties worth over £10m show support for "imaginative" council tax proposals...
Major industry players back Khan’s plan to restrict overseas sales of new-build homes in London
City Hall wants new-build homes under £350k to be sold exclusively to UK buyers for three months, and is developing a 'Homes for Londoners' property portal
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"