In May 2017, Sophie Bichener did what many in their twenties are unable to do: buy a home. She paid around £230,000 (around $295,000 at the time) for her two-bedroom apartment in a high-rise building ...

Rishi Sunak’s Autumn Budget has confirmed the new residential property developer tax will be charged at 4% on residential developer profits over £25m from April 2022. The details follow the recent ...

LONDON, Feb 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -The British government on Wednesday announced a 3.5 billion-pound fund to remove exterior building panels ruled unsafe after a deadly 2017 fire at London's ...

Dangerous Grenfell Tower-style cladding has been removed from just 15% of high-rise buildings identified by the government in the aftermath of the disaster, official figures show. Only 67 of 437 ...

LONDON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Britain has ordered housebuilders to pay around $5.4 billion to help remove dangerous cladding from buildings following a deadly 2017 London fire that left government, ...

UK government sets cladding removal deadlineThe UK government has set out plans for a new law that would set a deadline for building owners to fix unsafe cladding. UK government sets cladding removal ...

Six of the UK’s biggest lenders will start offering mortgages for high-rise flats affected by the cladding scandal in a move that could help thousands of Britons sell their homes. Barclays Bank Plc, ...

Visa changes designed to boost remediation of dangerous buildings have resulted in just 38 new workers being approved to work in the UK amid a wider ...