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Regulation & Law
‘New homes quality must be policed properly’ warns ombudsman
Jodi Berg OBE, Chair of The New Homes Ombudsman is calling for more powers to protect buyers from poor quality housing and says too few SME builders have joined the optional scheme.
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Housing Market
Labour pushes housing target up to nearly two million
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner told MPs the Government aimed to build 370,000 homes each year through reform of the planning system and mandatory local targets.
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Land & New Homes
Big estate agency urges Labour to build homes on Green Belt
Carter Jonas says not all the 1.5 million homes the Government hopes to build should be on this kind of land, but says some should be released for property development.
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Land & New Homes
3,000 homes deal – so is this one of Labour’s first ‘new town’?
Deal signed for huge new housing development and new town centre at Northstowe
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Latest property news
Site for Labour’s first New Town revealed by think-tank
UK Day One says Kempstown between Cambridge and Oxford is most likely and only viable place to build a fully-fledged New Town in the country.
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Land & New Homes
We will overcome the NIMBYs new Housing Minister tells BBC
Matthew Pennycook. the Labour Government's new Housing Minister, says his party wants to build "large scale communities", as it drives towards its target of 1.5 million new homes.
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Land & New Homes
Local house building targets are back, new Chancellor announces
Rachel Reeves says each area will be given a quota for new homes, and planning will be overhauled to make sure it doesn't get in the way.
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Housing Market
Homes for sale in UK are 8% over-valued, claims Zoopla
Zoopla says that homebuyers are largely shrugging off the election with a fifth (19%) more homes for sale than a year ago, new sales agreed 8% higher and demand up 6%.
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Agencies & People
ITV backs Purplebricks with £4.5 million ‘equity for ads’ deal
TV giant says it believes Purplebricks and its parent firm Strike continue to 'disrupt the estate agency market' and has inked a deal which will see a barage of adverts kicking off this summer.
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Housing Market
Public wants UK’s 1.5m derelict empty homes revived
As of 2023 there were homes worth £532 billion standing empty across England and Wales, with Westminster the worst offender with nearly 36,000 vacant homes.
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