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Why we must keep listening to residents

The Grenfell Inquiry started again this week with more disclosures from cladding manufacturer Kingspan. In November, we heard that one of the company’s managers had openly said that professionals raising fire safety concerns relating to the company’s insulation shoul...

Read    09/02/2021

Why we should stop and think before turning shops into homes

Back in December we blogged about the Government’s plans for allowing retail-to-resi conversions in order to breathe life back into high streets around the country. The argument goes that empty shops are blighting our town centres and converting them to housing would...

Read    04/02/2021

Waking Watch fund is ready for business

Do you live in a high-rise block where you and your fellow residents are paying for a waking watch? If so, your freeholder or property manager can now apply for finance to pay for a fire alarm system to be installed instead.The Government’s Waking Watch Relief Fund, ...

Read    03/02/2021

New cladding finance expected "very shortly"

Spotted on Twitter this morning: a ‘property lawyer’ tweeting that he didn’t know what all the fuss over cladding was about and that, as leaseholders are liable for repairs under their lease, they should be made to pay. Cut and dried he said. Except that it’s not. L...

Read    02/02/2021

Could your flood insurance be about to get better - and cheaper?

Last week, hundreds of homes were affected by flooding thanks to Storm Christoph, while many people are still dealing with the aftermath of Storm Bella that hit the UK on Boxing Day.With climate change making flooding a more frequent event, the costs involved in the ...

Read    01/02/2021

How the UPRN could get the homebuying process moving

Yesterday we blogged about stamp duty and the problems being caused by the huge surge in demand from buyers as they rush to complete sales before the payment holiday ends in March.Today, new data from Movewise proves the point. The multi-agent property seller looked ...

Read    28/01/2021

Why the stamp duty holiday MUST be extended

The Chancellor is increasingly under pressure from the property industry to extend the stamp duty holiday and maintain the momentum it has given to the housing market amidst the economic uncertainty of the pandemic.House prices are on the up, demand is high and the m...

Read    27/01/2021

How the pandemic is driving technology and the green agenda

It’s hard to find positives in the midst of a pandemic. But if you look hard enough you can find some plus points. Major events – even the worst ones – have a habit of driving technology forward.Rapid advances in radar, telecommunications and space exploration came o...

Read    26/01/2021

How you can help end the scandal of unused land and buildings

According to the National Housing Federation, there are a staggering 8 million people in England with some kind of housing need. So given the scale of our housing crisis, you could be forgiven for thinking that we don’t have any homes standing empty.Sadly, you’d be w...

Read    25/01/2021

Why we must keep talking to residents about fire safety

We’ve written a lot about fire safety this week. We are adamant that residential buildings must be built better – and built back better. The myriad faults revealed by the intrusive testing which has proliferated Since the Grenfell Tower fire must be remedied and neve...

Read    22/01/2021

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