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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has given a warm welcome to Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s planning reforms. This week Rayner...

Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has launched a comprehensive review of the National Planning Policy Framework. The objective is...

Clarity is required from the government over how planning changes are to help meet targets for 1.5m new homes in the...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says it welcomes the new Labour government’s ambitious housing plans - but it also casts...

Propertymark has struck a lukewarm tone in its response to Labour’s housing ambitions. The trade body says that to meet its manifesto...

The biggest rental sector headline from Labour’s manifesto may well be its pledge for the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction...

If Labour wins Thursday’s General Election. expect three major housing announcements within a fortnight. That’s the exclusive claim from the Sunday Times...

Shelter has spoken out in favour of what it calls “bold” commitments by Labour on the private rental sector and house...

Labour’s manifesto, just released, makes a pledge to enact the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction powers, along with other private...

The Conservatives have this afternoon set out a 78-page manifesto, of which just over two pages are given to housing and...

A Knight Frank survey of 50 house builders shows a staggering 70 per cent support for Labour to win the next...

Propertymark has branded the plans by Housing Secretary Michael Gove to increase housebuilding “disappointing”. Nathan Emerson, Propertymark chief executive, says: “The UK...

The head of a consultancy that handles lettings agency acquisition has given her views on what a General Election might mean...

A development site sourcing firm claims that reclassifying just one per cent of England’s Green Belt could unlock space for almost...

The right wing Adam Smith Institute is the latest organisation to voice its strong opposition to Labour’s proposed rent controls for...

Experts suggest that Build To Rent is likely to be heavily promoted when the government announces its latest revamp to the...

The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper.   Introducing in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...

Given that I wrote my last article on the day of the General Election but well before the result was known,...