Housing and planning minister John Healey said yesterday he had provided a "triple boost" for councils tackling climate change by updating planning rules, granting nearly £10m to improve green skills and backing further progress with the...

Politicians were warned today that they need to “wake up to the mounting housing crisis” as the shortfall in supply approaches one million homes.

Housing supply is outstripping demand as new sales instructions outpaced buyer interest for the second consecutive month, according to the RICS.

CIT Group has bought a residential site in London overlooking Regent’s Park and Primrose Hill in St John’s Wood for £51m.

Gerald Ronson’s Heron International has submitted a planning application for its £500m Heron Plaza scheme in the city of London.

Come on Qataris and Candys – settle your differences today.

Shares in Unite Group, the student accommodation provider, plunged more than 10% today after it reported a disappointing set of annual results.

London mayor Boris Johnson pledged today to bring 3,000 empty homes back into use in a new London Housing Strategy published today.

Housing minister John Healey has responded to criticism of the government’s track record on residential supply with a scathing attack on Conservative proposals to ease the UK housing shortage.

Interesting news that Christian Candy’s CPC Group has sold its Westminster headquarters on propertyweek.com today.

One of the coldest Januarys on record has slowed the recent recovery in house building volumes seen in the latter part of 2009, the National House-Building Council (NHBC) said today.

Residential estate agents came under renewed pressure today to improve customer service as the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) called for a shake-up in how homes are sold, including updating legislation to allow new entrants to the market.

Mortgage lending in January declined to its lowest point in ten years last month, figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) have shown.

East London housebuilder Telford Homes is proposing a £7.2m capital raising in order to progress its development pipeline.

Rydon and A2Dominion have submitted a planning application for the £137m regeneration of the Green Man Lane estate in West Ealing, London.

Urban regeneration company, New East Manchester has drawn up a revised plan for the future development of West Gorton.

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea council is taking on the Abu Dhabi royal family in a spat over a hotel site in the borough.

Buy-to let-lending increased whilst mortgage arrears and bank possessions declined in the last quarter of 2009, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said today.

Hamptons International has become the first UK residential agency to launch an application for the iPhone.

Galliford Try has agreed to buy out Bank of Scotland from four London residential developments for £4.