All Election articles
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NewsKhan makes election pledge to create City Hall housing developer
Sadiq Khan has pledged to create a new GLA-owned housing developer if he is re-elected as London mayor at next year’s elections.
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InsightSoho Estates’ Steve Norris on Sunak’s chances of winning the next General Election
Over the past few weeks, our new prime minister has rightly won many new admirers, probably most significantly, following his breakthrough on Northern Ireland. Is the outcome perfect? Arguably not. But that old saying that you should never let perfect be the enemy of good was never more appropriate.
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InsightIt's time to sacrifice profits to rebalance society
Recent events have provided further evidence of the ideological and socio-economic divide that exists today in the UK.
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InsightA council house boom, or bluff?
The additional £2bn of funding for affordable housing unveiled by the prime minister last week will help deliver 25,000 social rent homes over a period of 5 years - but that really is not a great deal considering the scale of our housing crisis.
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InsightRequired show of unity at Tory conference sadly missing
This week was not the Conservative Party’s finest.
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InsightToo many unanswered questions in Theresa May speech
Theresa May’s announcement on new money for social housing – and that she will take personal charge of re-igniting home ownership again in Britain - will be welcomed.
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OnlineTheresa May's speech - property reacts
Prime minister Theresa May’s speech at the Conservative Party Conference has drawn a largely positive response from the property sector after she pledged to invest in affordable and social housing.
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OnlineMay pledges more affordable and social housing
Theresa May has revealed an extra £2bn of government cash for local authorities across the UK to build more affordable housing.
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OnlinePM to reveal council housebuilding boom
Theresa May is expected to unveil the UK’s biggest council housebuilding programme in a generation at the Conservative Party conference later today.
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Insight‘Fuller form of rent control’ is never successful
It is hard to know exactly what Jeremy Corbyn means when he talks about “rent controls” .
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InsightPerfect time to take a sabbatical
In a week when we took a step closer to World War III, took a step back towards socialism with Jack White… sorry, Jeremy Corbyn, demanding rent caps, while his London mayor banned Uber, I was glad to see a few chinks of light prick through the gloom in your ...
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OnlineTo fix our housing market, London needs political joint ventures
This year’s general election result was not so much about Brexit, but quality of life. Part of this debate centered on housing and that has continued in party conference season .
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OnlineMay promises £10bn funding for Help to Buy - property reacts
Prime minister Theresa May has announced a fresh £10bn funding pot for the Help to Buy scheme, ending speculation that the scheme was to be halted.
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InsightRiding the global property cycles
In September a decade ago, anxious queues formed outside Northern Rock as people hurried to withdraw their money in the first run on a British bank since Victorian times.
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InsightSimpler CPO process is not all good news for landowners
Last Friday, the government introduced a standard compensation claim form for anyone whose land is subject to a compulsory purchase order - a move that should streamline the CPO process.
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OnlineCorbyn commits to rent controls & ‘use it or lose it’: property reacts
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has used his closing speech at the party’s annual conference in Brighton to commit to introducing rent controls and a compulsory purchase policy for undeveloped land.
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InsightHousing white paper reforms put in doubt
Housing didn’t feature as prominently in last week’s Queen’s speech as it did in 2015. Whereas last time around it took up pages 27 to 29, this year it was relegated to a shorter passage on pages 72 and 73.
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ProfessionalNew minority government puts business rates reform on the back burner
Last week’s Queen’s speech failed to mention the Local Government Finance Bill (2017) in a move that effectively kicked business rates reform into the long grass.
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InsightIt’s business as usual come what May after awful election campaign
Having predicted a Tory majority of 50 the last time I wrote for this august organ, I approach the future with some diffidence. I will not be alone.
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InsightTories must implement white paper
The Conservative manifesto promised to ‘fix’ the dysfunctional housing market so that there are affordable and secure houses for all, and the new housing minister Alok Sharma has to follow through on this pledge
