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One of the very few silver linings of the current coronavirus pandemic has been the seemingly positive impact lockdowns across the...

The promise of emerging technologies, championed by the most forward-thinking in the PropTech space, could have been inspired by nostalgic French...

With the number of major modular housing providers in the UK increasing, and calls getting ever-louder for more modern methods of...

Across the country, new developments continue to pop up everywhere you look – from the south coast of England to the...

Birmingham has been revealed as the council area with the most opportunities for regeneration for investment of empty residential and commercial...

Reducing stamp duty is the key to unlocking the housing crisis, according to new research from retirement living provider Audley Group. With...

With stories of housing crises crossing borders and seas, politicians, policymakers, architects, developers and housebuilders from across the world have been...

The modular house-building and off-site construction industry recently received a major endorsement when it was revealed that the Reuben Brothers have...

The regeneration of Britain’s high streets is being significantly boosted by property investors, according to international investment consultancy BuyAssociation. Its figures suggest...

Quinta do Lago, an exclusive residential resort situated in the Algarve, recently released its new property market report ahead of the...

Brexit! Whether you’re a Brexiteer or a Remainer, no one can deny that this is probably the number one issue on...

More than nine out of 10 new-build homes in the UK have defects and almost 40% fail to meet their original...

Investment in the UK’s private rental sector (PRS) will soar to £75 Billion by 2025, with an additional 560,000 households expected...

Recently we asked whether Build to Rent was the answer to London's housing problems. Now business group London First has joined forces...

With Build to Rent the fastest-growing trend in the rental sector, Property Investor Today took the opportunity to visit one of...

Private sector buy-to-let landlords sometimes get a bad rap from renters, who blame property investors for fuelling a housing boom which...

Micro homes are the next big thing for London’s property market, according to property inventory firm Assist Inventories. The new trend is...

As a reaction to (and by-product of) London’s housing crisis, there has been a rise in recent years in the number...

New research from Legal & General and economics consultancy CEBR has revealed that last time buyers now own £938 billion of...

New research by London estate agent James Pendelton has revealed that the capital now has two distinct commuter belts, with prices...

Research by peer-to-peer platform Lendy has revealed that the number of conversions of farm buildings into new homes fell by 20%...

Ahead of today’s Budget, property experts are waiting to see whether their predictions will be dispelled, or whether they will prove...

Last week saw the official launch of Homegrown, the UK’s first residential property investment platform focused solely on the construction of...

There has been record number of planning applications to build new homes in London this year, giving the city a genuine...

The UK housing crisis will be top of the political agenda in September and October when the main political parties hold...

Improvements to the existing stamp duty regime would significantly boost the number of housing transactions across England and Wales, according to...

The mayor of London’s plan to build an additional 50,000 affordable homes across the capital’s 33 local authority districts over the...

The Conservative party, assuming it is able to form a new government, is being urged to make tacking the growing housing...

With successive governments failing to build enough housing - particularly social housing - the UK is in the grip of a...

With housing high on the political agenda ahead of tomorrow’s general election, all the major parties have pledged to tackle the...

More British homeowners trust the Conservatives more than Labour to fix the country’s ‘broken’ housing market, according to a new poll. With...

A conference will be held for landowners willing to play their part in solving the rural housing crisis next month. The event,...

A new report suggests that a decisive general election victory for the Conservative party this week will empower NIMBYs (Not in...

Plans for what would become one of the UK’s largest regeneration projects have been put forward by Haringey Council in north...

The Liberal Democrats launched its manifesto yesterday ahead of next month’s general election pledging to deliver 300,000 new homes a year,...

Annual house price growth continues to slow, as affordability issues deter many prospective homebuyers. With 2017 proving to be a rather challenging time...

Housebuilders may never meet the demand for housing north of the border due to the various challenges that they face when...

The policy focus of the upcoming election will be on Brexit, but political parties will do well to remember that housing...

The supply of available housing dropped to the lowest level ever for March, according to the latest figures from the National...

Investors are being offered the opportunity to invest and make ‘great returns’ from property developments, online, at the click of a...

Leading housebuilders and housing associations, including British Land and the Berkeley Group, are urging the government to back Crossrail 2 as...

Investors are being offered an opportunity to play their own small part in solving London’s worsening crisis by investing in a...

A sharp fall in the number of homes being built north of the border is likely to push up house prices...

Yesterday’s rather low-key Budget statement failed to mention the housing market as the government continues to bury its head on the...

A lack of funding and uncertainty over Brexit contributed to a sharp decline in the volume of office to residential conversions...

There is a well documented housing crisis in England, especially in the south of the country where property prices are at...

England's first garden villages have been proposed for 14 sites across the country along with three larger garden towns in Buckinghamshire,...

With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...

New housing remained the strongest strand of construction output in October, despite the surprise slowdown in overall construction output, the latest...

Keepmoat has broken ground at a new £43m residential property development in Bradford; which will see major local infrastructure improvements and...

Since the shock Brexit result was announced in June, and the consequent drop in value of the pound, there has been...

Ministers are expected to back the construction of thousands of much needed new homes on green belt land when it releases...

The chancellor Philip Hammond announced a range of housing measures in his first Autumn Statement, including £1.4bn of cash to help build...

Profitability at the UK’s largest housebuilders has increased at more than twice the rate of new housing output, shows new research...

The number of new homes recorded in England has increased to its highest level since the financial crash, official figures have...

A severe undersupply of residential development sites and office space created by strong economic growth in Leeds City Region, which includes...

Business leaders have called for a "step change" in housebuilding if the government is to meet its ambition of delivering one...

LendInvest has released new dates for a training course aimed at aspiring property developers to be held early next year.   The course...

With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, compounding the...

The London mayor Sadiq Khan has paved the way for up to 10,000 new homes to be built in Barking after...

They say no man is an island, however the UK is – and there is only so much land available, says...

The latest housebuilding data shows that there was an increase in the number of new build housing schemes started in England...

Gavin Barwell MP has been warmly welcomed by various property industry professionals to his new role as housing minister, but is...

The government remains committed to delivering one million new build homes in England by 2020, in an effort to tackle the...

Concern about becoming a landlord is the main reason why 27,000 homes in Scotland are left empty for long periods of time,...

With just hours to go until voting for the London mayoral election closes, housing remains a key issue with all the leading...

Tenants will bear the cost of recent buy-to-let tax hikes for landlords as they will almost inevitably result in a fall...

The Centre for Policy Studies has argued that solving the housing crisis will require a broader approach to “affordability” and “sustainability”. The...