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Philip Hammond: The lonely fiscal conservative

by James Heywood | Jun 19, 2018 | Political Insider

Reading the Sunday papers can’t have been fun for Philip Hammond. After weeks of pressure from the health secretary and Number 10, it seems the chancellor has been forced to allow a big new spending pledge on the NHS to go ahead without any agreement yet on how it is...

Banks need to be on their best behaviour

by Adrian Pepper | Oct 25, 2017 | Political Insider

It is no great revelation that the Cabinet is split on Brexit but the most fundamental split is not one that the mainstream press spends much time analysing. The big divide is between those Cabinet members who want a Canada-style free trade agreement and those who...

The politics of residential property investment

by Ian Fletcher | Oct 3, 2017 | The Guest Essay

With the season behind us, now is a good a time to consider what we gleaned from this year’s political party conferences in Bournemouth, Brighton and Manchester, and the implications for residential property investors. Aside from the usual political theatre, there...

How to fix the housing crisis

by Ben Ramanauskas | Sep 21, 2017 | The Guest Essay

The findings of yesterday’s National Audit Office (NAO) report on homelessness in the UK were alarming. The problem has worsened significantly in recent years. The number of rough sleepers stood at more than 4,000 in the autumn of 2016, having increased from fewer...

Be careful what you wish for: the unintended consequences of political intervention in the ground rent market

by Paul Winstanley | Sep 12, 2017 | Residential Investor

I, like most people, detest seeing people get ripped off, especially so in the residential property industry. While I am proud to be part of an industry who, through organisations such as the BPF and ULI, genuinely wants to raise standards, promote best practice and...