Government awards £10bn to strategic partners to ‘deliver homes at scale’
The first wave of funding in the government’s £39 billion Social and Affordable Homes Programme has been allocated to council, social and affordable homes. Almost £10 billion will be shared among 33 strategic partners, including councils, housing associations and other providers that have secured long-term funding certainty to deliver homes at scale. The funding will […]
Home building generates £60bn of ‘hidden benefits’, HBF research suggests
Home building generates more than £60 billion of social and economic value for local communities across England and Wales, new research from the Home Builders Federation (HBF) suggests. New homes built in England and Wales last year funded 42,000 new school places and more than 1,640 football pitches-worth of community space, the HBF’s data shows. […]
Right to Buy sales up 90% year-on-year
The number of council tenants buying their homes off the local authority via the Right to Buy scheme went up 90% this financial year compared with a year earlier. Local authorities reported 14,275 eligible sales in 2025-26, an increase of 90% compared with 2024-25, the latest government figures reveal. The spike is thought to have […]
Good service is harder to see when the process remains hidden
Consumers say they’re not being kept in the loop about progress on transactions. Andrew Vaughan says the issue isn’t a lack of communication from conveyancers, but a problem with the systems that are designed to facilitate it. Few findings are likely to concern conveyancers more than the suggestion that some clients feel they are […]