Big Issues

Big Issues

Spanish property experts Sean Woolley from Cloud Nine Spain and Mark Stücklin from Spanish Property Insight have been sharing their thoughts about the market in 2022 and making predictions for 2023 in their podcast La Piedra. ...
Since the devastating tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire in 2017, cladding issues have been highlighted across thousands of properties in the UK. An investigation of the fire that took the lives of 72 people and had devastating effects on ...
We’re already into the second month of 2022, but predictions on what the market could bring for the remainder of the year continue to reach us. ...
In this guest piece, Reece Mennie, chief executive of HJ Collection, outlines his predictions for the property market in 2022.  ...
On Monday, Michael Gove - Secretary of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities - announced that leaseholders in buildings 11 to 18 metres in height will no longer have to contribute to replacing cladding, following sustained criticism of ...
Wealthy Chinese investors have long been reliable investors in the market, and have frequently looked to the UK, specifically London, as a stable and reliable point for investment. ...
As we begin 2022, Andrea Fawell, sales and marketing director of property developers Kebbell, gives a very honest account of the market factors that are likely to affect house buyers and housebuilders in the coming year. ...
With just over a week to go until 2022 makes an appearance, we check in with some more property experts to gather their thoughts on the main property trends for next year. ...
It's been another busy year for those with a stake in the UK property market, with commercial to residential transformations, Build to Rent, the growing prevalence of property scams and property fraud, record auction results, planning permission battles, and major new ...
John Clay, a board member and past chairman of the Society of Licensed Conveyancers, has written an open letter to the new Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove, regarding cladding - which has developed into ...
One of London’s leading independent estate agencies has launched NWX Residences, a landmark Build to Rent (BTR) scheme developed in partnership between Notting Hill Genesis and Oakfield. ...
When will the UK’s property bubble burst? ...
The UK’s 10 biggest developers could each face a potential average tax bill of £25 million per year if the government introduces a new residential property developer tax, according to research by a lettings and estate agent. ...
The rental sector has doubled in size in the past 20 years, with an estimated 19% of households (11 million people) now renting privately, according to the English Housing Survey. ...
Government policy and a lack of joined-up thinking are holding back the progress needed to tackle the cladding crisis, particularly in the way it is ‘dragging its feet’ in protecting leaseholders from bearing the costs of remediation, according to a ...
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UK commercial investment volumes and values will start to improve...
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