The Negotiator runs a critical eye over the ever revolving door of politicians who have taken on the housing brief, most of whom have not lasted long.
Read MoreNew Housing Minister is Alok Sharma, MP Reading West
The new Minister for Housing and Planning is Alok Sharma, MP, Reading West. Mr Sharma retained his seat with a majority of 2876 in last week’s election. First elected in 2010 for…
Read MoreHung parliament: the property industry’s first responses
There are many people who won’t be thanking Theresa May for yesterday’s election and today’s hung parliament including her Housing Minister Gavin Barwell who lost his seat last night in Croydon Central.…
Read MoreGavin Barwell loses his seat in Croydon Central
Housing Minister Gavin Barwell has lost his Croydon Central seat to Labour in an astonishing turnaround in fortunes for the 45-year-old, who has only been Minister for Housing, Planning and Minister for…
Read MoreMinister comes down hard on rogue letting agents and landlords with £30k fines
The government has published details of a tough new system of civil penalties to tackle rogue letting agents and landlords. From today onwards these enable local housing authorities to issues fines to…
Read MoreMinister’s controversial ideas to beat housing crisis
Gavin Barwell, the Housing Minister has been airing some interesting views about the UK’s housing crisis and how it can be resolved.
Read MoreNLA takes Housing Minister to task over buy-to-let tax “tosh”
Changes due to be made to the UK’s buy-to-let tax rules will push over 400,000 basic-rate landlords into a higher tax bracket, says the National Landlords Association (NLA). This is more than…
Read MoreBrexit
A catchy new word that many thought would be trending today, forgotten tomorrow. My goodness, how wrong we were.
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