Uk & International

Esther McVey has been sacked as the UK Government’s housing minister after just seven months in the role. Ms McVey is to be replaced by Christopher Pincher, the MP for Tamworth, who becomes the tenth Conservative MP to hold the position in as many years and the 18th since the start o

Lawmakers have approved plans to implement a five-year rent freeze in Berlin as part of plans to rein in the German capital's rental market. Berlin's legislature supported measures, including the rent freeze, this week, more than six months after they were proposed by the administration.

A housing association in England has received a governance downgrade after it lost nearly £1 million as a result of a cyber scam.

The UK Government has launched a consultation into proposals to lower the 18-metre height tall building threshold as part of new measures to improve building safety standards. Providing an update on the building safety programme to the House of Commons yesterday, housing secretary Robert Jenrick tol

Rhys Moore has been appointed as executive director of public impact at the National Housing Federation. Mr Moore joined the trade body for housing associations in England in 2016 where he has worked as head of media, public affairs and campaigns and more recently as director of strategic communicat

The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has appointed James Prestwich as its new director of policy and external affairs. Currently head of policy at the National Housing Federation, James will take up his new post at CIH on 24 February 2020.

A man living with his severely disabled partner in a two-bedroom council house should receive full housing benefit because applying the so-called ‘bedroom tax’ breaches his human rights, the UK Supreme Court has ruled.

Places for People Homes Limited has been fined £600,000 after five employees developed Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS). Aylesbury Crown Court heard that between 2009 and 2014 five employees of the property management and development organisation used vibrating powered tools to carry out gro

Clarion Housing is to become the first housing association in the country to adopt a new pan-European initiative which promotes sustainability.

Housing managers at one of the UK’s largest housing associations are being balloted for strike action over employment conditions.

The UK Government’s failure to deliver a single of the intended 200,000 starter homes it promised back in 2015 has been laid bare in a new report by the National Audit Office (NAO).

The representative body for landlords in England and Wales has claimed that rent controls hurt tenants by drying up the supply of homes to rent and in some cases increasing rents. With the Mayor of London calling for the power to introduce rent controls across the capital, an analysis of existing re

A new study has shown a correlation between housing costs in London and the number of births in the capital since 2010.

A new shared ownership model which will allow housing association tenants in England to buy a stake in their home for as little as £2,000 is to go ahead, housing secretary Robert Jenrick has confirmed. The UK government said a package of measures, which were initially announced over the summer

An English local authority has invested £18 million in return for a 50% stake in Scottish energy provider Together Energy to supply its residents with green electricity. Earlier this year, Warrington Borough Council announced plans to become the first UK local authority to generate its own ren