12 Days of Christmas and 12 Real Estate Highlights for 2024 Part 2

We’re now well into the 12 days of Christmas so what better way to see them through but with…

Twelve days of Christmas and twelve highlights of 2024

We’re almost there – Christmas and nearly a wrap for 2024.  What a year, the property industry continues to…

Let’s welcome a return to professional town planning

Arguably several decades too late, the UK polity has finally begun to accept the way planning applications up and…

Building safety needs a rethink if we’re to crack housing delivery

The development and construction sector is experiencing major change as a consequence of stricter oversight to ensure safety and…

No budget bonanza for housing means material planning reforms are coming

Last month’s budget confirmed what many of us in the UK development and construction most feared.  There isn’t much…

Systemic bankruptcy in UK town halls will hold back growth

Local government has been fraying at the seams for some years now.  In 2018, Northamptonshire County Council issued a…

Have we reached the bottom of the land market?

With inflation falling below the UK target to 1.7% the question inevitably arises, are we at the bottom of…

The housing crunch: We need a rethink on how we deliver affordable homes

Last week, the quarterly planning application statistics were released highlighting a 9% fall in received applications from the…

The curious case of the vanishing HA

As we head into another Party Conference season, the development sector remains in a significant state of distress with…