Property News

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,...

Homes in coastal locations are still commanding a premium and are outpacing the national average when it comes to price increases. New analysis from property platform Rightmove, reveals that the average...

AI adoption reaches tipping point across UK architecture, but human judgement remains critical, according to new research from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The survey highlights a...

Norwich has once again proved itself a winning place to live – this time with the announcement that six of its parks have scooped coveted Green Flag Awards. Eaton Park, Waterloo Park, Jenny Lind...

Projects here in the East of England make up half of those in the running for the 2026 Stirling Prize. A house at Fairmead, in Epping Forest, and two Cambridge college transformations have made it onto...