Uk & International

The Scottish housing market is seeing a rising gap between the level of need and the speed of new housing delivery, with more certainty for planning, funding, technical compliance and risk management required to ramp up home delivery, a white paper from Show House, in collaboration with J3 Advisory

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has stepped in over concerns that some suppliers cancelled orders amid the surge in heating oil prices, which may have been a contract breach. 

The UK government has announced the first allocations from its £39 billion Social and Affordable Homes Programme (SAHP), with almost £9.6 billion awarded to strategic partners to support the delivery of more than 73,000 social and affordable homes across England over the next decade.&nbs

Small and medium-sized housebuilders across England have urged the UK government to pause the introduction of its Building Safety Levy, which they claim will make even more sites financially unviable.

Thousands more homes are to be built within ten minutes of transport hubs, including on green belt sites, under a major loosening of planning policy in England from today.

The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has pushed back against Conservative proposals to strip foreign nationals of access to social housing in England, arguing that the policy sidesteps a long-running shortage of genuinely affordable homes. Responding to the plans, CIH pointed out that access to

Nationwide has reported in its latest house price index that house prices were up by just 0.1% month on month in July, with the UK annual house price growth slowing to 1.8% in July, from 2.2% in the previous month.

The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has said that partnership working will support councils with housing delivery and cited “a lack of resources, finances, and capacity within local authorities” for housebuilding. 

A total of 29,162 new homes were registered to be built in Q2 2026, down by 4% on Q2 2025 (30,259), according to figures released on 28 July by the National House Building Council (NHBC). 

The campaign group Generation Rent has said it is “very disappointed” with the new Secretary of State for Housing, Angela Rayner's announcement on 24 July that the government is not considering implementing rent controls in England.  In conversation with BBC Breakfast, Rayner said:

Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s pledge to end rough sleeping is to be welcomed but will not solve the long-term issue of homelessness, Shelter Scotland has warned.

The government has laid out new housing benefit legislation which would help over 300,000 residents in supported housing and temporary accommodation to stop facing a large decrease in their income should they decide to increase their working hours, with the CIH welcoming the move. 

Just 4% of social landlords in England describe themselves as "very prepared" for the expansion of Awaab’s Law Phase 2, according to new research, as the regulations were laid before Parliament yesterday.

A proposed housing law in Ireland has sparked significant concern among legal experts, human rights bodies and advocacy organisations, with warnings that it could push vulnerable people, including migrants, trafficking victims and domestic abuse survivors, out of the social housing system entirely.

Shelter is urging the UK Government to end the unfair debt burden that stops councils from delivering new homes as it revealed new research highlighting that building social homes at the current speed will take 119 years to clear housing waiting lists.