I’m starting to hear a lot about the problem of housing for low to middle income households. Two events this week. One was the launch of housing association Gentoo’s Genie product, which removes the need for mortgages and deposits with … Continue reading →

Figures out from the Council of Mortgage Lenders today show that buy to let mortgage lending – mortgages for landlords buying property to rent out – has reached a record high. Now £1 in every £8 of mortgage lending goes … Continue reading →

The flavour of today’s Budget was very much helping Britain to be an ‘aspiration nation’. A cornerstone of which was about helping people achieve ‘that most human of aspirations’: owning a home. That came with a major policy announcement: the … Continue reading →

Today, RIBA’s Future Homes Commission calls for a revolution in the scale, quality and funding of home-building to fix our broken housing market. The report’s central recommendation is for a three-fold increase in the number of new homes built every … Continue reading →

It’s a sad reality that in Britain we get used to putting up with the impact the high cost of housing has on our lives. We accept having to spend an hour getting to and from work every day as … Continue reading →