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The 2025 Autumn Budget confirmed a new £1.5 billion allocation for the Warm Homes Plan, intended to support insulation and low-carbon heating upgrades across England. According to the UK Government, the funding will target households in the least efficient homes, as part of a long-term ambition to upgrade up to five million properties.

The Central England Trading Standards Authorities (CEnTSA) has published a report on a three-year enforcement project across the West Midlands that targeted CMP failures by letting agents and helped protect more than £11.1 million in client money. Propertymark’s compliance team supported the operation by answering hundreds of enquiries from Trading Standards and providing witness statements when required.

Despite weeks of speculation, the Chancellor’s speech contained no changes to Stamp Duty and, disappointingly, no announcement on LHA rates , which remain frozen. However, Rachel Reeves, MP, has pushed ahead with plans for a ‘mansion tax’ on properties worth over £2 million, an increase in property income tax, and increases to the National Minimum Wage.