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Only half of planning condition applications are determined within the statutory eight-week timeframe. Furthermore, also according to research carried out by the Home Builders Federation (HBF) and Paragon...

Nearly two-thirds of movers would ideally like their home to generate most or all of its own energy. According to property portal Rightmove’s 2026 Greener Homes Report, more than half (53 per cent)...

As the UK braces itself for another wet autumn and winter, experts from the built environment are working together to improve property flood resilience (PFR). The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors...

Higher mortgage rates over the summer have pushed up the cost of home buying, contributing to a nine per cent fall in the number of sales being agreed versus last year. In the East of England, sales agreed...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has welcomed Labour’s focus on housing and regeneration in Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s Labour conference speech. At the same time, it...

The new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) has been welcomed as a broadly supportive step towards a clearer, more delivery-focused planning system. Real Estate:UK (RE:UK), the organisation that...

Build to Rent (BTR) can result in high levels of regeneration for certain areas of the country, according to a recent report. The sector has delivered an average of 61 per cent of new homes built across...

The housing market showed further signs of stabilisation in August, with buyer demand and agreed sales moving away from recent lows. According to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) UK...

New homes built in England and Wales last year funded 42,000 new school places, more than 1,640 football pitches worth of community space and over £9 billion in affordable housing. Building new...

A widely overlooked form of affordable housing could unlock hundreds of stalled sites and help thousands of renting families into home ownership, without the need for additional public subsidy, according...

The Help to Buy scheme has been heralded a great success by the Home Builders Federation (HBF) – and the organisation is now calling for it to be replaced with a similar system. New figures from...

Home sellers should get their pricing ready for the September bounce, according to recent research. Zoopla’s latest House Price Index has revealed that house price growth has slowed to 1.3 per cent,...