London doesn’t need more social housing, it needs more housing full stop Opinion Andy Burnham’s plan for a huge social housebuilding programme will be expensive and won’t solve the root cause of the housing crisis: we just haven’t built enough houses, says Emma Revell Andy Burnham isn’t letting a little thing like constitutional reality get in the way of starting his premiership with some big announcements. The de [...]
‘It’s gone’: How a social housing scheme left amateur investors tens of millions out of pocket Property A social housing investment scheme that promised amateur investors huge returns with no risk has collapsed into administration owing its backers nearly £27m, Morning Wire has learned. Alderley Group, which invested in affordable housing projects across the North West of England, has left around 1000 investors out of pocket after claiming it could guarantee returns [...]
Natwest housing finance chief: Social housing changes lives – I would know Opinion Behind every discussion about social housing are real people whose lives can be changed by the security of a permanent home, writes Paul Eyre.
I’m a social landlord, but London housing needs the private sector May 29, 2026 Any mention of the private sector is met with rejection, or even disgust, in some quarters of the social housing sector, but we both need each other, writes Andy Hulme.
UK housing market: ‘Not fixed, but less broken’ June 12, 2025 Decades of underinvestment, underbuilding and overegulation have clobbered the housing market. The UK is now short about 4.3m homes, with the worst crisis in cities. Labour, which made solving that crisis a central mission of its first year in government, has made tracks to get Britain building again – reforming planning, trying to bridge the [...]
Home REIT sells off another £36.9m of property in wind-down scramble September 30, 2024 Scandal-hit social housing investor Home REIT said it had offloaded another £36.9m worth of property today as it scrambles to clear its debts before winding down. In a statement to the markets, the former FTSE 250 firm said it had sold 200 houses at a series of public auctions last week as part of efforts [...]
Platform Housing: Turnover up as investment in existing homes trumps construction of new ones August 28, 2024 Platform Housing Group has reported a strong start to the year, although the rate of new-build homes has fallen with the focus shifting to improving social rented properties. Turnover at the company grew by 14.8 per cent to £92.3m in the three months to June 2024, up from £80.4m in June 2023, with 95 per [...]
Home REIT: Beleaguered trust targets lifting of trading ban August 23, 2024 Home REIT has laid out its plan to apply to the Financial Conduct Authority to restore the trading of its shares, as the beleaguered trust’s chair admitted facing “very significant challenges”. The trust was launched with the intention of providing social housing to the homeless, but has been pummelled with multiple scandals over the last [...]
Hold the champagne, the housing market upturn is meaningless without rental reform August 21, 2024 The recovery in the UK housing market recovery is redundant while the rental sector remains in pieces, writes Purplebricks CEO Sam Mitchell.
Build, Baby, Build: If you want growth, you need social housing July 24, 2024 Key workers are being priced out of renting in London, placing huge human and economic costs on the capital. By recognising the value of social housing to people and to the economy, we can make the case to build more much-needed social housing in London and create a more affordable, more inclusive city for all [...]