New Homes Accelerator kickstarts building of 100,000 new homes
The New Homes Accelerator, launched last year to remove barriers to homebuilding, has enabled the building of almost 100,000 new homes across England, the government has announced. The team behind the specialist programme have helped speed up the delivery of 36,000 new homes by intervening through targeted support including providing local areas with additional planning […]
New upfront sellers survey aims ‘to set new standard for property information’
A seller-commissioned pre-marketing property report launched by software provider Skyline Surveyors aims to tackle the housing market’s lack of upfront information and ‘set a new standard’ for the industry. The Home Insight Survey has been designed to deliver clear and independent insight from the moment a property is listed, with the aim of speeding up […]
Public/private partnerships to help with AI-driven home moving
The government is inviting private companies specialising in building technology solutions which incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) to work collaboratively to ‘transform public services’. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has launched an initial set of priority AI exemplar projects set to show how AI can help to transform public services to make people’s lives easier and […]
NHBC report sets out quality guidelines amid 1.5m new homes drive
The NHBC Foundation has published a new report to highlight the importance of quality during the planning and build process, as the government strives to meet its 1.5 million new homes target. Maintaining quality in the design and construction of 1.5 million homes is the result of a roundtable event with 16 industry stakeholders from […]
Making AML a cultural mindset in conveyancing
The recently published Council for Licensed Conveyancers’ (CLC) 2025 Risk Agenda reinforces the desire for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) to become more than a tick-box exercise. Instead, the CLC urges firms to embed AML as part of their cultural DNA. Its new framework of six ethical principles outlines this approach, urging conveyancers to go beyond the […]