Search Results for: 1.5 million new homes
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Regulation & Law
Rachel Reeves eyes controversial Capital Gains Tax raid on main homes
As the Chancellor’s search for extra revenue to plug £40bn fiscal hole continues, a CGT raid on property is looking more probable, it is claimed.
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Regulation & Law
‘Landlords need more time for Decent Homes Standard admits Minister’
Matthew Pennycook responds to MPs who say the Government is not acting quickly enough to deal with mould problems in the private rented sector.
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Land & New Homes
Angela Rayner putting 1.5m new homes target ‘at risk’
Housing experts say the Deputy Prime Minister's tough new anti-land banking measures will pit councils against developers in costly legal battles.
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Land & New Homes
New £53bn bank to deliver 500,000 extra homes, ministers claim
Angela Rayner says the 'National Housing Bank' will attract £53 billion in extra investment, and help SME builders at risk of going bust.
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Rental market
Chancellor reveals £39 billion to build more affordable rental homes
Rachel Reeves says new cash will increase the number of social and affordable rent homes which will relieve pressure on rental market.
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Regulation & Law
Government’s 1.5m home building plan ‘unlikely to succeed’ – Savills
Estate agency warns demand not supply is the critical issue to meeting 1.5m target that Labour has made a key plank of its housing policy.
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Housing Market
Angela Rayner threatened to quit over ‘impossible’ 1.5m homes pledge
Despite the Government’s claims to the contrary, Rayner believed at one point that Labour’s housebuilding target was never going to be achieved.
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Housing Market
Spring Statement: Chancellor claims Government ‘within touching distance’ of homes target
Rachel Reeves told MPs Labour is set to build 1.3 million new homes in the next few years at a rate of 305,000 every 12 months.
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Land & New Homes
Developers say hitting Labour’s 1.5m new homes target ‘easy’
Nearly two-thirds of developers surveyed by lender are ‘confident’ the UK can meet the Government’s ambitious housebuilding target.
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Regulation & Law
PLANNING: Labour to speed up councils’ approval for newbuilds
Government to radically overhaul planning to boost house building and make approval times under two-and-a-half years not average SEVEN.
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