Buy-to-let Property News, Market
HBF: planning approvals fall to 14-year low
Home Builders Federation data shows 45,315 English homes received planning permission in Q2, down 21 percent on the previous quarter and the lowest total since 2012.
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Buy-to-let Property News, Market
Buy-to-let off-plan demand hits 12-year low
Buy-to-let demand for off-plan homes has fallen to its weakest level in 12 years, according to Hamptons, with the share of new homes sold before…
Buy-to-let Property News, Regulation
New homes banned from gas network from 2028 under Future Homes Standard
New homes in England will be banned from connecting to the gas network from March 2028 under the Future Homes Standard, which the government published…
Buy-to-let Property News, Market
UK to miss 1.5 million new homes target by over 40%, says Savills
The UK government is on track to fall drastically short of its pledge to deliver 1.5 million new homes by 2029, according to a new…
Buy-to-let Property News, Market
Bristol leads the charge as 26,000 new homes hit the market in 2025
The UK property market has seen a brisk start to 2025, with nearly 26,000 homes listed for sale in the first week alone. According to…
Buy-to-let Property News
£3.2bn surge in new homes delivered to UK cities in just two weeks
The UK housing market has seen a significant boost with £3.2 billion worth of new-build homes delivered across Britain in the past two weeks, according…
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Reclassifying green belt land could deliver 738,000 new homes quickly
Research from Lomond suggests that Labour could nearly meet half of its ambitious target of 1.5 million new homes by reclassifying just 1% of the…
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Labour’s 1.5 million homes pledge faces scepticism
New data analysis by Yopa, the full-service estate agents, suggests that Labour’s ambitious promise to build 1.5 million new homes in their first parliamentary term…
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Scrap tax on new homes to rent or pay the price, Government told
Successive governments are to blame for a chronic shortage in available rental properties, the National Residential Landlords Association has claimed. ‘Since 2015 the government has…
Buy-to-let Property News
Housebuilding shot in the arm
Housebuilding is recovering, official figures suggest. Some 35,710 homes were started in July to September 2020 – a 111 per cent increase on the previous…
