Combination of having to pay higher salaries so staff can afford housing and paying increasing amounts in office rent is causing some to consider moving out.
Face it, home owners must take a hit to sort out housing …
Housing policy is dominated by consensus. We all agree on the problem: house-building levels are too low, despite there being ample land, even in and around London . We all agree the consequences are terrible: for a …
The housing lessons London can learn from Paris: can good …
The housing lessons London can learn from Paris: can good city planning can help ease 'us and them' tensions? The sink estates of the French capital have made “us and them” divisions concrete — can good city planning …
Olympic Park: essential guide to buying a home in east …
Olympic Park: essential guide to buying a home in east London's five new housing zones. Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is set to become more than just a fond sporting memory as Londoners prepare to move into the first of …
Creative solutions to London's housing crisis
New London Architecture's (NLA's) latest Insight Study, 'New Ideas for Housing', took a step towards addressing London's housing crisis earlier this month via a major international ideas competition. Entrants were asked to …
Autumn statement and spending review – the key points at a …
Housing. London housing. Facebook Twitter Pinterest. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA. Housing budget doubled to £2bn. 400,000 affordable new homes will be built by the end of the decade – half of these will be starter …
Spending review and housing: 'The government has no …
“This budget won't offer anything to most of Generation Rent in London, for whom buying a home is a bad joke, much like the term 'affordable housing',” Johnson said. “Renters need secure tenancies and rent controls so they …
George Osborne unveils his 'bold plan' to tackle housing crisis
Stamp duty rise, doubling of interest-free loans in London and more affordable homes will benefit first-time buyers, says chancellor.
Holloway Prison to close and be sold off for housing …
Holloway Prison – the largest women's jail in western Europe – is set to close. The historic prison, which has been branded "inadequate" by inspectors, will be sold off to make way for housing. The Victorian jail was originally …
Magic beans? Charity trains homeless as baristas amid …
London is one of the most expensive cities in the world for housing with the average one-bedroom flat priced at £1,000 per month. The number of people sleeping rough in the UK rose by 37 percent in London between 2013 …