Uk & International

Hazel Bell OBE has been appointed as the new chairperson of the organisation which represents Northern Ireland’s 20 housing associations. Members of the Northern Ireland Federation of Housing Associations (NIFHA) encompassing over 53,000 social and affordable homes.

A letting agency has been found guilty of illegally evicting tenants after a court heard that tenants were routinely subjected to violence, theft and vandalism and evicted without notice.

A giant 'sand battery' that can store enough cheap renewable energy to heat 100 homes for up to two weeks has been constructed in Finland. Polar Night Energy’s first commercial sand-based high temperature heat storage is now in operation at Vatajankoski power plant area.

Wheatley Group board member and chair of Wheatley Foundation, Paddy Gray, has joined a new independent commission to review the housing system in Ireland. Professor Gray is one of two international experts chosen to be on the new Housing Commission set up by the Government of Ireland.

Sovereign Housing Association, working with two commercial partners, has just installed smart home sensors and thermostats in 400 of its less energy-efficient homes. This ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) approach will help reduce its carbon footprint and enable the organisation – and ind

TopHat, a construction company backed by the American investment bank Goldman Sachs, has announced its intention to deliver Europe’s largest modular homes facility in the UK.

Hundreds of Ukrainian children and their families have been made homeless after being granted sanctuary in the UK, new official figures have revealed.

The UK Government has released the full details of its Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper, which it said is designed to redress the balance between landlords and 4.4 million private rented tenants.

The John Lewis Partnership has announced the first three locations where it proposes to build new rental homes. The homes would form part of the UK’s growing build-to-rent property market as the Partnership seeks to raise standards in rental property, both through its role as a developer and a

The UK Government's plan to extend the Right to Buy (RTB) their home to all housing association tenants in England is a "retrograde step" that could erode the supply of affordable housing, it has been warned.

Octopus Energy and ilke Homes have entered into a world-first strategic partnership to roll out the UK’s first homes to guarantee residents zero energy bills. The tech firms are launching the partnership on a site in Essex where ilke Homes is delivering the UK’s largest zero-carbon housi

An 11,600-home housing association in England, which was previously found to have fallen short of governance and financial viability standards, has now breached the Regulator of Social Housing’s (RSH) Home Standard over issues around fire safety, asbestos management and water safety.

The Church of England is to pioneer a shared land management and development service to develop skills and capacity across its network of dioceses in order to become a major provider of social housing. More than a year on from the Archbishop’s Commission on Housing, Church and C

England's housing secretary Michael Gove has warned Clarion that it must improve or face direct action after the Housing Ombudsman found Britain's biggest social landlord guilty of "severe maladministration" in two separate cases. Earlier this month, the government regulator said it is planning

Taylor Wimpey is to demolish a half-built development of 148 flats in east London after “a potential structural issue” was discovered in the concrete frame.