Over the last few months there have been a huge amount of announcements coming from Government about the property market – and it isn’t easy to keep up with them all! These include, new rules which are coming into effect and suggestions, consultations about possible new rules. To help understand which is which, here are the key things to be aware of whether you are buying, selling, renting, letting, renovating or building a home.

Last week the Government announced some temporary changes to the amount of Stamp Duty paid on property purchases and I was on BBC Radio 4 and LBC chatting about the changes and my thoughts on whether they were a good idea or not. Read my article for the full details.

This week I chatted with Miles Shipside from Rightmove on Radio 4 You and Yours about the property market. You can listen again to my interview and for some more information, here are my ‘notes’ for the interview.

It was great to be invited onto the new BBC1’s Your Money and Your Life with one of my housing heroes, Matt Allwright and meeting the lovely Kym Marsh. As ever, we never seem to have enough time to take on some complex questions, but if you want the five minute version, you can view online here, or read my article.

Can you rely on property price indices at the current time? Read my latest property price report to find out what's really happening to prices and transactions during Covid-19.