Sadiq Khan calls for a wider "use it or lose it" use of compulsory purchase orders to dissuade developers from "land-banking"

“Developers could increase the choice of design, size and tenure of new homes without impacting on the local market and therefore speed up the rate at which houses are built and sold”, argues an independent…

The Housing Minister has promised to create a New Homes Ombudsman for new house-builders

The Government has eased the Coronavirus lockdown in a bid to re-start the housing market after seven weeks in cold storage. Estate agents' office can now re-open, viewings are permitted;