Uk & International

The UK Government has backed a multi-million pound deal that will see Japan’s biggest housebuilder move into the UK housing market with immediate effect.

A £600,000 pot of funding has been launched in Greater Manchester which aims to find real-life solutions to the housing problems facing thousands of vulnerable private renters in the city.

Around £200 million will be made available to remove and replace unsafe cladding from around 170 privately owned high-rise buildings, the UK Government has announced.

England’s social housing regulator has launched a 12-week consultation on a revised Rent Standard that could restrict rent increases by up to CPI+1% annually from 2020 for at least five years.

A quarter of private landlords in England and Wales are looking to sell at least one property over the next year, according to new research.

The boards of two housing associations which collectively own and manage 38,000 units across the south west and south of England have announced talks on a potential merger. Radian and Yarlington will explore options over the coming months to form a partnership which they said will deliver “lon

The announcement by the UK Government that they will end no fault evictions is welcome news and long overdue and follows the path that already exists in Scotland, writes David Alexander. Scotland provides a model for the future direction that the Private Rented Sector (PRS) operates in England as it

Affordable homes could be built on land owned by the Church of England after the Archbishop of Canterbury launched a major new commission to tackle the housing crisis. The Most Rev Justin Welby has launched a Commission on Housing, Church and Community to explore a Christian perspective on housing p

A free personal postal address and letter collection service for people who are homeless or living in temporary accommodation has been launched in the Republic of Ireland. National postal company An Post has teamed up joined with charities and service providers to announce the launch of Address Poin

Children from the social housing element of a London residential complex are being blocked from playing at a communal play area used by homebuyers at the same development. Henley Homes got permission to build a 149-home development on the site of the Baylis Old School complex on Lollard Street by pr

A Cheshire housing association has launched a new shared-ownership and sales arm as part of its ambitions to build 500 new homes by 2021. Weaver Vale Housing Trust (WVHT), which owns more than 6,200 homes across Cheshire, has launched Prospa Homes in a bid to increase housing choice across the count

English housing associations delivered a resilient performance in 2018 but growing exposure to market sales this year poses risks, according to credit ratings agency Moody’s. A new report found that HAs continued to perform well in 2018, as strong turnover offset rising costs, the ongoing rent

A landlord in the Republic of Ireland discriminated against a homeless man by telling him that they would not accept Housing Assistance Payment (HAP), a court has ruled. The case marks the first time a discrimination case from the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) on the “housing assistance

A housing development company is to create the UK’s first private sector, fully integrated investor, developer and manager to focus wholly on affordable housing. Multinational commercial real estate firm Avison Young has been instructed by Value Group to advise on structuring and raising of ca

Property website Zoopla has announced plans to overhaul its rental adverts to ban posts which refuse to take renters on housing benefits. The move comes after the National Housing Federation found one in ten adverts on the Zoopla website specified "no DSS" (Department for Social Security) or "no hou