by peter littlewood | Oct 20, 2025 | Open News
Park Properties Housing Association (PPHA), a for-profit registered provider, has acquired 156 affordable homes in Aylesford, Kent — its largest purchase to date. The homes, bought from UK housebuilder Barratt Redrow, will house approximately 648 people and comprise...
by peter littlewood | Oct 20, 2025 | Open News
Rightmove’s latest data shows the housing market slowing in October, with average house prices rising just 0.3%, well below the ten-year October average of 1.1%. Year-on-year, prices dipped 0.1%, bringing the national average asking price to £371,422. Autumn usually...
by peter littlewood | Oct 20, 2025 | Open News
A continued decline in planning applications is raising concerns over the Labour Government’s pledge to deliver 1.5 million new homes during this Parliament — a key part of its plan to drive economic growth. New data from Barbour ABI, reported in The Telegraph, shows...
by peter littlewood | Oct 20, 2025 | Open News
A joint statement from Mars Petcare and Battersea Dogs & Cats Home has welcomed the Renters’ Rights Bill as having a “transformative impact on the lives of tenants wishing to rent with pets.” Following the Bill’s final stages in the House of Lords, it is now...
by peter littlewood | Oct 20, 2025 | Open News
Writing in the Negotiator, Shabnam Ali-Khan is a Partner at Russell-Cooke and a member of ALEP has warned that the growing tendency to brand leasehold as “fleecehold” and to champion commonhold as the only acceptable alternative risks distorting the leasehold reform...
