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While the anger at the timeline for enforcing the decent homes standard (DHS) in England might be expected, it is also arguable that enforcing decent home…

Changes to lease agreements, leading to steeply increasing ground rents over recent years, are an outrage. An estimated 18% of leaseholders in England and Wales –…

Two-thirds of councils in England have not prosecuted a single landlord in the past three years, despite receiving 300,000 complaints from desperate tenants living in unfit…

The growth in global demand for “green” office buildings has slowed after Donald Trump’s assault on environmental protection policies caused a slump in interest in the…

China’s economy grew at its slowest pace in a year in the latest quarter amid a trade war with the US and long-running woes in its…

Owners of UK and European property are facing a challenge to improve their buildings’ environmental performance, with some in the industry saying loans which encourage greener…

When Sarah Ladyman was made redundant from her job as a horticulturist earlier this year, her one-bedroom flat was her sanctuary. Then, her landlord attempted to…

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A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook…

The sheltered housing provider Anchor is taking more than 60% of my widowed sister-in-law’s nest egg, which she needs to fund her care home.She and her…