HOUSE sellers could be forced to tell buyers if they have problems with damp or flooding in the garden under plans to boost the property market.
Ministers are looking at reforms to make property surveys more readily available to potential buyers.
Ministers want to speed up house sales with reforms to property surveys[/caption]
This could include making surveys that have already been carried out on a home freely available to other buyers.
Downing Street is alarmed at how many house sales fall through late on because surveys expose hidden problems with the home.
They also want to slash the amount of time it takes to exchange on a sale.
It currently takes around five months between accepting an offer and completing. This is far longer than in many other countries.
Last week new Housing Secretary Steve Reed said “build baby build” would be the mantra of the government.
The number of new homes built in England fell to 201,000 in the year to June 2025. This is down 8 per cent on the year before.
Although in silver lining, permission requests for new homes outside London between January and June were 49 per cent up on last year.
But he is facing a massive challenge to hit the government target to build 1.5 million new homes by 2029.
Housing Secretary Steve Reed – at the front with a St George’s flag – has vowed to build more houses but he is facing an uphill challenge to hit the target of 1.5 million new homes by 2029[/caption]
