Call for Social Housing Sector to Keep BuildingThe Government has called on the social housing sector to keep building more homes to support the economy, maintain employment and continue to create new housing opportunities for people – an issue Government believes remains unaffected by the current economic downturn.
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Rural Wales needs to make better use of housing stock
The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) Cymru has welcomed a new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) looking at the scale of Wales’ rural housing problem.
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Housing is a Key Link to Jobs
The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) welcomes the new Housing Minister Caroline Flint’s focus on the problems of worklessness, but cautions against a policy that could undermine the important stability that housing gives to people often in transitional periods of their lives.
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First time buyers pay over a third of income to mortgages
Average mortgage costs to income for first-time-buyers are now higher than they were in the 1990s at the peak of the last housing boom, while increasing numbers of households are moving into private rented housing, according to the newly published UK Housing Review.
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The government’s announcement to increase the threshold on inheritance tax liability to £600,000 for couples could have been designed to give thousands of people an opportunity to get a foot on the housing ladder, says the professional body for people working in housing.
The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has called for the role of a new regulator to cover all providers of social rented housing, including local authorities, to ensure that all residents in affordable housing are protected to the same degree.
The Chartered Institute of Housing has responded positively to the Government’s Housing Green Paper.
New research will contribute to meeting the target of 3 million new homes by 2020, announced by Gordon Brown last week.
House price growth remains stable across most of the UK, although prices in London are increasing and prices in Northern Ireland are falling.
New evidence supports Yorkshire Building Society’s findings that more borrowers are choosing to fix their mortgage for the longer term as economic conditions remain uncertain.
Latest research from Halifax shows the ability of key public sector workers to purchase their own home continues to improve and is approaching the level achieved ten years ago before the house price boom.
Research commissioned by specialist buy-to-let lender Paragon Mortgages, has shown a significant regional shift in the rental yields achieved by landlords.
