Policy

Estate agents indulging in "portal juggling" - relisting the same property over-and-over on portals to artificially drum up interest - have been warned that "they could be prosecuted and face a ban from…

Singapore's National Development Minister Lawrence Wong said the government is considering building public flats in prime areas, like the planned Greater Southern Waterfront, in order to make the city…

Cutting ties with Europe represents a huge shift for the Private Rented Sector

Vancouver is the latest global real estate hotspot looking to curb property price inflation (following the lead of Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and more), bringing in a really quite chunky 15% levy on…

Westminster Council's anti-iceberg rules came into effect this week, making it exceptionally difficult to create big-scale basement extensions in the borough.

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has set out a hashtagged batch of proposals to deal with what it calls "the UK’s dire housing crisis". Go

As we learned this week, home ownership is tumbling across the UK - the last Conservative regime has a lot to answer for, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...

In a universally-expected move, the Bank of England has halved the Base Rate to an historic low of just 0.25% and renewed some quantitative easing. The BoE's interest rate had been at an already low 0

A total of 41,222 new homes were registered by the National House Building Council throughout the UK in Q2, an uptick of 1% on the same period last year.

All five professional bodies representing architects across the British Isles have issued a joint statement, after a big powwow in Belfast to discuss  the implications of the UK referendum to leave the…

Mayor Khan has tasked the London Finance Commission to bring forward a new, "beefed-up" set of devolution proposals to assert greater control over how the capital is run, including the making of key h…

The British Columbia Government in Canada has rubber-stamped a 15% levy on foreign buyers of Vancouver property, in a bid to thwart spiralling house prices - but it's given the industry just eight days'…