Housebuilders will pay £5bn to free leaseholders trapped by the cladding scandal that emerged in the wake of the 2017 Grenfell fire. Under a new agreement drawn…

Research from the Home Builders’ Federation (HBF) suggests the number of affordable houses built is set to drop, as big builders pause projects and weather the storm…

Mike Fox, 60, is a small-scale landlord who will just miss the cut-off because he owns five properties in total, although he will now be protected from…

Michael Gove is poised to abandon a rule forcing apartment blocks more than seven storeys high to have a safety manager after campaigners warned it would impose…

The blaze ripping through a London tower block last week forced Britons to reacquaint themselves with what has become a more familiar sight in recent years.  Crawford…

Adrienne Pettitt, 32, owns a flat in a building in Salford that has major cladding problems. Works were due to start in June 2021, but this was…

The scheme mirrors a similar one for social housing, which caps the amount social housing tenants have to pay for repairs work through service charges at £15,000…

Michael Gove has been accused of making “quasi-Marxist” demands after housing developers were told they could be shut out of the property market unless they paid into…

Michael Gove is seeking to dramatically widen a proposed cladding compensation scheme to encompass other defects on homes built in the past 30 years as he steps…

Housing developers are preparing to fight a government demand to spend billions of pounds on cladding repair costs after Michael Gove threatened to block the industry from building…

Michael Gove has threatened to block major housing developers from securing planning permission if they fail to come up with a £4bn compensation scheme for victims of…

Developers responsible for dangerous defects in high-rise buildings have escaped their liabilities by liquidating themselves into nonexis­tence – and left thousands of innocent flat owners to pick…

Surveyors and lenders have rejected the Government’s move to free hundreds of thousands of flat owners from cladding turmoil by refusing to change their fire safety policy….

The principle of “polluter pays” is a long established means of recouping costs and ensuring that the taxpayer does not pick up the bill for the shortcomings…

Michael Gove has threatened to lock major housing developers out of the Help to Buy scheme or hit them with a fresh tax raid unless they come…

On the face of it, this is a huge win for flat owners in mid-rise blocks who now do not need such a form to sell or…

Homeowners trapped in flats in high-rise buildings covered in cladding could soon be spared from huge bills by an impending Government “reset”. But campaigners have warned the…

The letter from Simon Clarke, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, to Mr Gove said loans for smaller buildings would be replaced by a “limited grant scheme”….

It marks the latest attempt by ministers to draw a line under what has blown up into a significant scandal, partly due to blunders that critics say…