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Napier barracks, one of the first mass accommodation sites opened to house asylum seekers, will not be closing as planned in the coming weeks, as the…

The typical summer lull in Britain’s housing market has been avoided amid the availability of bigger home loans fuelling a “buyer’s market”, according to a property…

This is – they tell you in Tempsford – where Boudicca rallied against the Romans. Where the early English kings fought off the Danes and where…

Cleverly says Starmer has a ‘disconnect from reality’ over housing asylum seekersHello and welcome to the UK politics live blog.Newly-appointed shadow housing secretary James Cleverly has…

James Cleverly will return to the Conservative frontbench as the new shadow housing secretary, facing off against Angela Rayner, as part of a reshuffle of Kemi…

Copner Way, North Peckham Estate, 1985Newell says: ‘My grandmother and mother moved to the Redbridge Gardens estate, Peckham, in the early 60s when it was first…

The official deposit scheme for renters is “putting millions in unscrupulous landlords’ pockets”, campaigners have said.Almost half (46%) of renters said they did not know they…

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The housing market was flat in June as signs emerge that the UK jobs market may be “softening”, one of Britain’s biggest mortgage lenders has said.The…

My friend Trevor Hendy, who has died aged 89, was director of development at United Kingdom Housing Trust (UKHT) in the 1980s, a period in which,…