house prices

Planning system drives up house prices in expensive areas, says report

11.06.2019

Laura Edgar

High house prices in expensive cities have been caused by the planning system’s rationing of new homes in areas of high demand, according to a report out today (11 June).

Appeal: Occupancy condition lifted on ‘out of reach’ property

10.04.2019

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | house prices | occupancy condition | rural worker's dwelling | South East

An inspector has removed a condition limiting the occupancy of a barn conversion near Winchester, ruling that its valuation put it ‘out of reach of the vast majority of rural workers’.

Rural county house prices are 10 times annual earnings

25.02.2019

Laura Edgar

county councils | County Councils Network | England | house prices | Rural

House prices in rural counties are 10 times higher than average annual earnings, according to analysis by the County Councils Network (CCN).

High house prices stop workers moving to Dublin

24.09.2018

Laura Edgar

Dublin | Economic Growth | house prices | Housing | Ireland

Research carried out for regeneration and property developer U+I suggests that Dublin’s housing crisis is hampering efforts to recruit and retain workers in the city.

Appeals round-up: Protected trees to make way for Wrexham housing scheme; Business use preferred to continuation of community centre

06.07.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 30 June-6 July, 2018

Iron Acton Main Street / Adrian Pingtsone

Appeal: Asking price of rural worker’s dwelling ‘out of reach’

06.07.2018

Matt Moody

Finance & Viability | house prices | Rural | rural worker's dwelling | South West

An inspector has removed a 1981 condition limiting the occupancy of a country home near Bristol to rural workers, ruling that the property's £1.1 million asking price meant it was ‘out of...

Appeal: Camden flats would not be ‘genuinely affordable’ for ‘squeezed middle’

12.01.2018

Matt Moody

Plans to redevelop a depot on the Regent's Canal into flats and offices have been refused, after an inspector ruled that the appellant's proposals for ‘intermediate’ housing would not be...

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Nurses priced out of NHS homes

10.01.2018

Laura Edgar

The New Economics Foundation has said homes to be built on NHS land will have an average expected sale price that is 10 times the annual salary of a nurse.

Appeal: Low house prices weaken case for affordable housing provision

14.11.2017

Matt Moody

An inspector has granted permission for a six-home scheme near Wisbech with no affordable housing provision, considering that the area's low house prices mean a higher proportion of the population can...

UK house price growth slows

15.08.2016

Laura Edgar

house prices | Housing | RICS | UK

House price growth has continued to slow in the UK, according to the latest figures in the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) residential market survey.

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