Housing

Big capital stuck in UK Capital

Last week we saw another sign of the decapitalisation of the London residential development market with

London residential land market: frozen or thawing?

After months of speculation, measures to support London house building will be consulted on in the coming…

Everything you have always wanted to know about funding home building (but were afraid to ask)

The UK housing development sector is being decapitalized.  Evidence?  The thousands of homes in static consents across…

Progress for London housebuilding policy…but the clock is ticking

The government and City Hall deserve credit for taking the first difficult steps to reversing this generational…

Make viability great again

There’s been a lot of chatter about planning reforms.  How effective they may or may not be…

National housing policy is dysfunctional we must rewire to get building

How does bad policy get made? The development sector has weathered more than its fair share in…

New Towns could be great, or could be housing’s HS2

Just over a week ago the Government published its blueprint for the next wave of New Towns. …

We are in ICU and need emergency (planning) surgery

I have been reflecting on the recent propviews article which draws out the astonishing stat that…

The View from Downe: What Nigel Farage’s Village Tells Us About His Housing Politics

If you want to know how Nigel Farage might think about housing, you have to leave Westminster…

35% of nothing

Last week, during an in-depth feature for Inside Housing, Deputy Mayor for Housing Tom Copley made the…