Explainer: How we’re making buying and selling a home simpler, faster and more certain  

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The way you buy and sell a home is changing to make it faster, simpler, and more certain.  🔑 What does that mean?   🏠 What this means for you   📊 Why the current system needs fixing   📅 What happens now?   ❓ Common questions   Phil Spencer, Move iQ founder - top tips 


Coverage of UKREiiF 2026

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Following UKREiiF last week, there has been widespread coverage leading on a Homes England funding announcement in Leeds, alongside trade coverage on planning reform and the NPPF.  There is positive regional and trade coverage of the government-backed Leeds South Village regeneration scheme. BBC 


Coverage of our Design and Placemaking Planning Practice Guidance

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Temple Gardens, North Somerset ©Historic England Yesterday we announced our new design guidance, giving councils and developers a clear rulebook to deliver better‑designed, safer and healthier neighbourhoods that complement local areas. This forms part of the biggest planning rewrite in a decade, designed 


Coverage of the housebuilding acceleration measures announcement

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There has been widespread, national print and broadcast coverage, alongside extensive positive stakeholder reaction, to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s announcement to speed up housebuilding with a default ‘yes’ for new homes around well-connected train stations, measures 


Coverage of our proposals to shakeup home buying and selling process 

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There has been widespread, positive coverage across every national outlet on the government’s announcement to speed up the long drawn-out and costly homebuying and selling process – the biggest shakeup in this country’s history.   Hundreds of thousands of first-time buyers are 


Housing Secretary issues ‘call to arms’ for leading developers to ‘build, baby, build’ 

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This week the Housing Secretary, Steve Reed, brought together key developers and housebuilders, alongside Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook, to work in partnership with industry leaders to ramp up housebuilding. Discussions focused on tackling the remaining barriers, including complex planning processes,