The Housing Bulletin

Poor housing is costing the NHS in England £1.4 billion a year. A new report produced by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) highlight...

Seema Malhotra : To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the proportion of peo...

 Michael Gove has told MPs he is looking again at the way housing needs targets are calculated. The housing secretary said: “In making a cal...

Despite rising inflation and the end of both the furlough scheme and stamp duty holiday, UK house price growth continues to deny economic gr...

Social housing providers have reduced their spending on repairs and maintenance by 16% during the pandemic. The drop in ‘major works capital...

The government’s flagship green homes grant scheme to help people install energy efficiency measures resulted in just 15,182 households on l...

Speaking to the House of Lords Built Environment Committee, which has been undertaking an inquiry into meeting the UK’s housing demand, Chri...

Mr Barry Sheerman : To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what plans he has to deliver reforms for renter...

Housebuilders can now bid for loan funding from a £624 million fund to deliver infrastructure and assemble land, the government has said. Th...

Right to Buy sales dropped by 35% in 2020/21 to the lowest yearly figure in eight years, according to newly published statistics. The govern...

  Formal investigations by the Housing Ombudsman have risen by 65% compared with last year, while enquiries and complaints to the service ha...

The price of homes jumped by 1.8% in the last month, the biggest monthly increase for six years, according to the latest data from Rightmove...

The DLUHC has released £57.8 million to councils in order to develop quality housing. Councils have received 80 per cent of the £75 million ...

Youth homeless in the UK has increased by an estimated two-fifths in five years, rising to more than 120,000, a leading charity director has...

One in 10 households in need of housing are stuck on council waiting lists for over five years as a result of the chronic shortage of afford...

Housing was an important factor that led to “unacceptably high death rates” among BAME communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, a report fr...

  The number of universal credit claimants at least two months behind on rent soared by 70 per cent in the first half of this year, accordin...

  Giving councils the powers and funding to meet a third of the government’s current target of 300,000 new homes per year would improve the ...

  Overall project-starts saw a steady slowdown in Q.2 and Q.3, after an initial surge in the first quarter and continued to fall in Septembe...

Boris Johnson’s election pledge to build 300,000 new houses a year is in serious jeopardy in the face of labour and material shortages that ...

Housing associations and their wholly owned subsidiaries are set to be made exempt from the developer cladding tax after lobbying efforts by...

Poor housing is harming the health of one in five renters in England, with mould, damp and cold the main triggers of sickness, a major surve...

The price of an average house is now as expensive as it has ever been, standing at just over £267,500, according to data from Halifax, who r...

More than 1,000 properties have been made available to homeless people across Liverpool. Housing association, Cobalt Housing, said on its we...

Recently sacked Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has urged the prime minister not to water down planning reforms to enable more house buildi...

Housing association (HA) shared ownership sales saw a near-10 per cent rise across England during 2019-20, with a significant increase seen ...

  Only the top 25% of earners in London were able to privately rent a property in the city at an affordable rate last year, according to off...

Michael Gove will instruct his Levelling Up department to boost homebuilding in the north of England, after widespread concerns that previou...

Speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference Mr Gove hinted at the possibility of new incentives for social landlords to ...

Former Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has warned there is not enough political will in the government to hit its target of ending rough sl...

  Vast rental demand rippling across the country has fuelled yet another rise in monthly rents according to the latest data and analysis fro...

  The number of homes built by housing associations fell by almost a fifth in the 2020/21 financial year due in part to the pandemic. Data c...

  UK house price growth slowed in September as economists said the looming end of the stamp duty tax break had cooled the market after a per...

THOUSANDS of renters could be made homeless due to the £20 cut to Universal Credit, a housing charity has warned. More than 100,000 low inco...

A second wave of demand for more space will keep driving house prices across Great Britain higher, with values set to rise by up to 3.5% a y...

  Confidence and resilience in the housing market are expected to remain high beyond the end of government support, as falling numbers of pr...

Home buyers wanting to settle down in the top energy efficient homes face prices of up to £40,000 more than less sustainable options. Enviro...

Thousands of people are stuck in flats they cannot sell or remortgage despite government efforts to persuade banks to drop fire-safety cladd...

 Sandwell Council had 3,187 empty residential properties as of September 6, according to council tax records. This includes all privately ow...

Social housing providers and sector bodies have urged the government to reconsider the cuts to Universal Credit and step up support to tenan...

Ms Nusrat Ghani: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will review the five-year plan to assum...

Welfare and immigration policies are contributing to sharply unequal access to affordable housing among Black, Asian and minority ethnic com...

Chris Pincher has been re-appointed housing minister in the renamed Ministry for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (MLUHC). Lord Steph...

        ·          Home sellers made an average of over £110k profit in the year to May                2021, £15,587 higher   than the year ...

London fire brigade did not know how to properly deploy water equipment that could have doused flames all the way to the top of Grenfell tow...

The London Fire Brigade (LFB) was “unacceptably closed-minded”, “isolationist” and “parochial” in the years before the Grenfell Tower fire a...

  Homes England’s remit should be refocused on renewing and regenerating ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods, according to a new report chaired by ...

Despite the usual traditional summer holiday lull, fierce competition continues among buyers for a record low number of available properties...

 Michael Gove is expected to pause the government’s planning changes and review them before deciding how to proceed, sources say. Proposals ...

A series of cladding systems failed fire tests carried out for the government in 2004, but the results were never revealed before the materi...

With house prices at an all-time high and the age of first–time buyers on the rise, new research by comparethemarket.com forecasts the chang...

  Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick : To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of changes in the level...

The stamp duty holiday has increased the price of first-time buyer homes by an average of 11.7% in England in the last year, and by as much ...

Cornwall Council has outlined plans to clamp down on former council houses being used as holiday homes. The council has proposed setting up ...

Following CMA action, leaseholders with Countryside Properties will no longer be subjected to ground rents that double every 10 or 15 years....

A lawyer for the company which made the cladding panels used in Grenfell Tower said it was unfair to pin the blame for the fire on them. Ste...

 The Government is being urged to create 250,000 new homes for key workers as a reward for their efforts during the pandemic. The Centre for...

Robert Jenrick has lost his job as housing secretary in a major cabinet reshuffle and been replaced by Michael Gove. The former housing secr...

The average UK house price fell by £10,000 in July compared with a month earlier, official figures show, as the housing market appeared to c...

  The documentary  Surviving Squalor: Britain’s Housing Shame revealed the disturbing conditions some social housing tenants have been expo...

Catherine West: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of the adequacy ...

  The bereaved and survivors of the Grenfell disaster have called for an urgent ban on the use of combustible materials in buildings after t...

MHCLG has released the latest statutory homelessness statistics, covering the period from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021. The statistics capt...

 Following the wind-down of the stamp duty holiday at the end of September, activity levels in the UK property market are predicted to remai...

Following the pandemic and the introduction of the Coronavirus Act 2020, the UK Government initially increased all notices to six months for...

The government is reportedly backpedalling on its commitment to overhaul planning laws in order to accelerate infrastructure projects with a...

  tephen McPartland: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to extend right to buy ...

Private rents outside London are rising at their fastest rate for 13 years, research suggests, as tenants making plans for life post-pandemi...

A significant number of borrowers are attempting to stretch mortgage terms to 35 or even forty years, with ‘maximum age at end of term’ the ...

A scheme to make homes cosier and greener racked up administration costs of £1,000 for each household that benefited, the Whitehall spending...

The average UK house price reached a fresh record high in August while annual inflation cooled to a five-month low, after the partial end of...

In its annual Housing Sector Survey consultancy Savills identified a significant shift towards investment in existing homes. A poll of 138 s...

The number of lenders offering sub-1% mortgage products has increased from just 1 in March to 12 by July, according to analysis by Trussle. ...

The boom in domestic holidays has fuelled a surge in demand for mortgages for UK holiday rental homes as landlords and investors cash in on ...

 More than 11,000 second-home owners in England have flipped their properties to become holiday lets since the start of the pandemic, to cap...

The rate of growth in housebuilding work fell to its lowest level last month since the height of the coronavirus pandemic in May 2020, as ma...

Nottingham could fall short of the demand for housing by more than 4,000 homes, according to the latest predictions. The issue will be raise...

Ministers are expected to announce that Grenfell Tower will be demolished because of safety concerns, more than four years after the fire th...

Over-55s keen to take advantage of the stamp duty holiday drove a 116% year-on-year increase in the number of people using equity release fo...

Complaints and enquiries to the Housing Ombudsman increased 21% in the first three months of 2020/21, having already risen sharply last year...

Hard-to-sell homes are being snapped up by the hundred as Britain’s booming property market maintains a year-long breakneck sales record. In...

UK house prices accelerated in August, the Nationwide has said, with values now 13% higher than before the pandemic. The building society sa...

The house price premium for a property with a higher energy rating – A or B – is just 1.7% compared to a D-rated home, new research from Nat...

  Thousands of people will be helped onto the housing ladder as funding worth £8.6 billion is allocated across the country. Part of the larg...

Three quarters of Brits don’t spend enough money each year on home upkeep, new research has revealed. Experts claim that homeowners should s...

 An estate agent says the housing market now has a hidden characteristic - an absence of homes that are friendly for older people. Loveitts ...