House prices fell again in March

8 April 11

House prices fell 0.1% in March and with the Retail Prices Index running at 5.5% property owners continue to see “value being chipped away at an alarming rate”, according to LSL Property Services.

Only Monaco is more expensive for homebuyers than London

6 April 11

Monaco remains the world’s most expensive residential location, followed by London, according to Knight Frank and Citi Private Bank.

Centre for Cities tells Croydon to invest

7 March 11

Croydon is no longer “London’s back office” and the borough will need to retain and grow its existing private sector employment base if it is to maintain its economic health through a period of national shrinkage in the public sector.

Essential Land joins Altyon and Delancey for redevelopment of GlaxoSmithKline London site

22 February 11

Residential developer Essential Land has joined forces with fund manager Altyon and Delancey to draw up plans for a mixed-use redevelopment of part of GlaxoSmithKline’s landholding in Beckenham, south east London.

Property leaders lobby coalition on housing benefit payment

21 January 11

Property leaders urged coalition ministers to keep their pre-election pledge of restoring the direct payment of housing benefit to landlords after new figures today revealed that 11.7% of all UK rent went unpaid in December.

Berkeley Group looking at second residential fund

21 October 10

Berkeley Group is working up plans to bring housing on several of its current development sites together for a second residential investment fund.

Persimmon chief calls on coalition to issue planning guides

14 July 10

Mike Farley, chief executive of leading housebuilder Persimmon, has added his voice to the chorus of disapproval over the Coalition’s failure to issue clear policy guidelines for housing development after revoking regional spatial strategies.

Barratt cools housing recovery talk

14 July 10

Barratt Developments today tempered the current talk of a UK housing recovery and said that the market is likely to remain challenging as a result of continued constraints on the availability of mortgage finance and overall economic concerns.

Coalition scraps HIPs

20 May 10

The coalition today followed a long-held Conservative Party pledge to remove the requirement for homeowners in England and Wales to provide home information packs (HIPs) when selling their homes.