Before the Labour Party conference, Lucy Powell, Shadow housing secretary said: “Labour is the party of homeownership, the Tories are the party of speculators and developers. They treat housing as a commodity, not the bedrock of stable lives and life chances.” Labour has announced plans to: Give councils powers to force landowners to sell vacant sites to build new housing at lower prices than the compulsory purchase system currently allows. Give first-time buyers exclusi

Hi everyone, My local council is offering to lease my flats on an interim lease agreement, whereby they would use the properties as temporary accommodation for households owed a duty under S188 or S193 of the Homelessness Reduction Act. Can I ask if anyone has done this with their properties and let them out on this basis? What are peoples thoughts and experiences of using their properties for this purpose, and what are the risks involved? Many than

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted unanimously to maintain Bank Rate at 0.1% and by a majority of 7-2 to continue with its existing programme of Quantitative Easing. CPI inflation was projected to rise temporarily in the near term, to 4% in 2021 Q4, owing largely to developments in energy and goods prices. Conditioned on the market path for interest rates, CPI inflation was expected to fall back to close to the 2% target in the medium term. However, glo