Housing Demand for UK housing at highest level for three-and-a-half years

• Sharp increase in demand for Shelter services
  Housing charity Shelter has reported a sharp increase in demand for its services, according to reports.
• Planning minister privately recorded waging war with countryside campaigners
  Nick Boles privately attended a meeting with some of the country’s biggest property developers, saying he was prepared for a battle with campaigners, the Telegraph has reported.
• Mixed responses to Osborne’s “Help to Buy” scheme
  The multi-billion-pound “Help to Buy” schemes to kick-start the housing market were at the centre of a bleak Budget revealed yesterday.
Housing Executive finances “out of control”
The “abjectly poor” management of repair contracts for the NIHE left them open to significant risk of fraud for many years, a damning report has found.

New ruling favours Goliath over David in leaseholder battle
Legal ruling puts right-to-buy owners at financial risk but could prove 'good news' for housing associations.

Student co-operative pioneers a reduction in university housing costs
Birmingham students aim to protect tenants from rogue landlords and letting agents and cut rent in half.

UK housing market shows sales lift, says Rics
UK house sales hit their highest level in more than two-and-a-half years in February, but the figures do not signal a housing boom, surveyors say.

Councillors urged to reject housing
Plans for a new housing estate in Kirkham look set to be rejected by councillors on Wednesday.