Policy
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%
End of the Golden Age? UK housing market undergoing ‘structural shift’
JLL forecasts price growth of 2.5% pa for the next five years as UK transitions into 'new paradigm'; PCL to be weakest performing region in 2018...
Why the Bank of England is raising interest rates – & the risks involved
Johan Rewilak, an empirical economist and lecturer at Aston University, explores the reasoning behind the Bank of England's anticipated decision to raise interest rates for the first time in a decade...
Government publishes its Draft Tenants’ Fees Bill
Agents who try to charge fees to tenants could be hit with a £5,000 fine and criminal charges, says the draft bill, published today.
How to save tax like a duke
Using family trusts to save IHT is not just for the super-rich, but it does help to have had some well-advised ancestors...
SDLT is ‘4x more harmful per pound than income tax and 8x more harmful than VAT’
The UK's property tax system is "strange and inconsistent", according to The Adam Smith Institute.
Empty homes premium slammed as ‘meaningless’ after RBKC investigation
Study finds just £85k of charges levied on £500m worth of long-term vacant homes in Kensington & Chelsea