“It’s a gravy train”: one surveyor’s fight to fix Britain’s leasehold system
For two decades, leaseholders are said to have been overpaying by up to £500m a year
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What’s wrong with the English planning system?
Keir Starmer has said a Labour government would try to overhaul our internationally unusual set-up.
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Could new regulation kill off short-term holiday lets?
The government is currently consulting on whether to regulate holiday rentals commonly advertised on platforms like Airbnb.
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Andy Street: “Our devolution deal is the end of the begging bowl”
The Mayor of the West Midlands on how the “landmark” shift of powers from Whitehall to his authority will transform…
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Will anyone dare defy the Nimby Party?
As long as the main parties believe there are votes in opposing development, the UK won’t get the houses it…
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A generation locked out
Those who cannot afford to buy a property have been forced into the under-regulated private rental market.
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How Help to Buy broke the housing market
Rishi Sunak is reportedly planning to bring back a policy which critics say contributed to the housing crisis.
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Could housing be the next big political divide?
Reports the Tories will resurrect Help to Buy open them up to accusations of being tired and out of ideas.
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Why are more homeless people dying?
New figures show that the number of people dying while homeless rose 20 per cent in England and Wales in…
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Should we get rid of second homes?
Locals are being priced out of rural communities, but the alternative could threaten tourism, without getting to the root of…
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Housing is conspicuously absent from Labour’s five missions
The economy and the cost-of-living crisis is going to dominate the next general election.
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More than £2bn of government funding for retrofitting homes remains unspent
A third of the money devoted to decarbonising housing and public sector buildings has not materialised.
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Will Michael Gove’s Right to Buy reforms mean more affordable housing?
The Levelling Up Secretary has promised local authorities will keep all the money from the sale of council homes for…
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However the housing crisis ends, we will all lose
The boom has caused untold misery, but it has gone on for so long that the crash, when it comes,…
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The BBC’s naff greenwashing of gentrified south London
As if it hasn’t suffered enough, Elephant and Castle is blighted with pineapple lamps and cactus headboards in the latest…
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A better future starts at home
The foundation of a good life is decent, secure housing.
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Why are London’s housing estates choosing to be demolished?
Sadiq Khan promised residents would decide the future of their homes. Critics say it’s a false choice.
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Awaab’s law needs to protect private sector tenants too
The government’s plans to improve conditions in social housing stock don’t go far enough.
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If you rent in England, its crumbling courts are screwing you – here’s how
Ending no-fault evictions could put extra strain on an already overstretched courts system.
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MPs call for 90,000 more social homes every year and a new housing court
The Levelling Up Committee has said the government needs to step up its plans to protect renters and punish rogue…
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