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5 steps to ... appointing a letting agent

25 July 2008

1. Check the agent belongs to a professional body. This is usually the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) for commercial letting agents and the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) for residential agents.

Home help

By Karen Buck

25 July 2008

Use market forces to help homeless

Plan to remove SW green belt status

25 July 2008

Green belt land in parts of the South-West could be used for housing developments under government plans.

Super-quango bill approved by MPs

25 July 2008

The new Homes and Communities Agency super-quango will launch in early December after the legislation needed to establish it entered the statute book this week.

Moving up the food chain

By Stuart Watson

25 July 2008

Smaller bodies delivering regeneration skills and training are being swallowed up by bigger ones.

Build housing to suit city markets, says think-tank

18 July 2008

Ministers must tailor new housing to the needs of individual cities' economies if the Government is to get close to meeting its housing targets, a report warned last week.

Migration worries not racist, say MPs

18 July 2008

Rapid inward migration can have a negative impact on community cohesion, MPs said this week.

Twenty new housing growth points announced

18 July 2008

Twenty new housing growth points identified by the Government will aim to boost house building beyond the levels called for in local and regional plans.

Eco-towns design challenge delayed

11 July 2008

A competition to generate ideas for the Government's eco-towns programme has been delayed.

Boris unveils £60m to reduce empty housing

11 July 2008

London mayor Boris Johnson this week announced £60 million of funding aimed at bringing the capital's empty homes back into use.