Policy
Digging deeper into the UK’s housing problem
It’s not just the imbalance between supply and demand that's pushing pricing upwards, it’s also the cost of funding developments, says Charles Curran
Chancellor lays groundwork for a housing-heavy Budget
Philip Hammond says he wants to get 300,000 new homes built each year
Lex in depth: The false promise of a UK house building boom (FT)
What if a lack of houses is not the real problem, asks the FT's Jonathan Eley in an in-depth feature.
A temporary stamp duty cut ‘would encourage over a fifth of recent home buyers to move again’
A survey estimates what effect an SDLT holiday would have on home-owner behaviour
‘Housing policy inertia puts brakes on 2018 price growth’
Jackson-Stops predicts little movement for property markets next year
Shaking Up SDLT: What can the UK learn from Norway & Singapore?
LonRes' William Carrington and Marcus Dixon take an in-depth look at how two other countries are approaching the issue of taxing high-value homes...
Cities could save billions of pounds, while saving the planet – here’s how
Andrew Sudmant and Andy Gouldson of the University of Leeds explore how local actions - particularly domestic measures in residential properties - in key British cities could have a significant impact…
Budget Preview: What the prime resi industry wants (& what it expects)
Pretty much everyone in the property sector wants the Chancellor to re-reform stamp duty on 22nd November - but Hammond probably won't cut it.
Land Registry frees up commercial ownership data
Transparency drive 'gives citizens and organisations the opportunity to discover which companies own land and property in England and Wales'
Four things the Paradise Papers tell us about global business and political elites
Relatively few Americans or Europeans were caught up in the Panama palava, but this latest mega-leak is a different story...
May, Hammond & Javid agree to put housebuilding at the heart of the Budget
"Trilateral summit" at Downing Street promises "new money, reforms to planning and incentives for the construction industry to build homes" in this month's Budget
BoE raises interest rates for the for the first time in a decade: Property industry reactions
"No surprise" from the prime resi sector as the Monetary Policy Committee votes 7-2 to increase the base rate from 0.25% to 0.5%