Housing and Planning Minister Alok Sharma addressed the RESI Conference 2017 on fixing the ‘broken housing market’, which he said must be a combined effort between the government and industry.
“The question I keep coming back to is very simple… would a fire like this [Grenfell] have happened in a privately owned block of luxury flats?” – Sajid Javid
The forecasters so far have either predicted a worse market than we are actually experiencing so far or a far more buoyant one. In reality, performance to the half year is pretty much somewhere in the middle...