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The Week’s Best Property News: In Review
9th September 2026
Each week, we carefully review and hand-pick the most important and reliable property stories from across the media from the 1st- 6th September.
So if you’re a buyer, seller, landlord, tenant, property investor, or property professional working within the industry, the latest roundup of news stories will help you understand what’s really happening in the UK property market now and what’s ahead…
#1: Beware of offers of easy riches from Property – post office former sub-postmaster Kanagasundaram Prince loses £44k of compensation funds
Reported by Jack Simpson
Jack Simpson investigates a devestating story where former sub-post master falls victim to a ‘easy riches’ property scheme scandal. After being awarded £655,000 compensation for being wrongly accused of fraud during the Horizon post office scandal, Kanagasundaram Prince invested into what he thought was a property scheme securing financial security for his future.
#2: Rent Tribunals saving tenants money, partly due to property condition issues
Reported by Z2K Fighting Poverty
Renters who challenge their rent increases are on average £1,140 per year better off than they would have been had they accepted the landlord’s proposed increase. When used, the tribunal system is robust, and often results in lower rents than that proposed by landlords.
Read the full report on No More Back Doors: Delivering New Renters’ Rights to Challenge Unfair Rent Increases here.
#3: More Social Homes to be built – at last!
Published by Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, GOV.UK
The government has set out how its £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme will boost social and council housebuilding in England, with at least 60% of homes targeted for Social Rent.Find out where the initial billions are being allocated, what it means for London and councils, and how the government plans to deliver its biggest council housebuilding programme in decades.
Read more about the Governments Social and Affordable Homes Programme here.
#4: Think you know how to fix the housing market in Wales? Now is your chance! Find out how you can influence the Welsh National Development Framework.
Reported by Government Business
Read more about the Future of Wales consultation here.
#5: Homes sold under Right to Buy rise by 90% – Over two million now sold since 1980
Reported by Rachel Springall, Finance Expert, MoneyFacts Group
While the housing crisis is usually blamed on those the provide homes: developers and landlords, the real cause is often ignored. Shocking new figures at the root of our housing crisis:Right to Buy sales in England jumped 90% in 2025/26, with 14,275 council homes sold – but just 3,452 replacement homes were funded from Right to Buy receipts. With more than two million homes now sold since the scheme began, the fabulous finance expert Rachel Springall,Moneyfacts looks at what proposed Right to Buy reforms could mean for tenants and the future supply of social housing.
Read the full story of insights of Rachel here.
#6 Why UPRNs are fantastic news for everyone and anyone in the property market!
Published by HM Land Registry, GOV.UK
Our property content expert Kate Faulkner is a big fan of Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) and believes that developers and investors could gain far more detailed insight into property and land values, with the news that UPRNS are going to be linked to sold prices of individual properties, streets, neighbourhoods and land parcels.This could make it easier to identify opportunities, assess sites and make better-informed investment and development decisions.
Find out more here!
#7: Record number of landlords taken to court over rent increases
Reported by The Times and Hamptons
Read the full story here.
#8: Landlords, are you up to date on the new HHSRS?
Published by Ministry of Housing,Communities & Local Government, GOV.UK
The government has published new HHSRS case studies covering all 21 housing hazards, showing through practical examples how properties are assessed and what improvements may be needed to remove Category 1 and reduce Category 2 hazards. For landlords and agents, they provide a useful insight into what an HHSRS assessor is actually looking for – from damp and mould and excess cold to fire, electrical hazards, falls and overcrowding .
Read the full report of cases studies here.
#9: Awful story about London flat owners still paying a mortgage on flats destroyed by a fire
Reported by Jessica Murray, Social affairs correspondent, The Guardian
Following a fire at Spectrum Building in East London on 26 August 2024, the flat leaseowners have been in a state of limbo for the past two years paying a mortgage on flats destroyed from the fire.
Read the full story here.
#10: Home Sales in London, South East and East of England take the longest to sell
Reported by Jane Denton, Money Reporter, This is Money
The average seller has to wait 216 days to sell homes across Britain it’s reported according the latest research from Rightmove. With sale wait times lengthy across Britian, areas such as London see average wait times of up to 244 days.
Find out what the average wait time is to sell a home in your region here.
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