Low and medium-rise blocks which have received fire safety checks that state remediation is needed are still likely to need that work before banks will provide mortgages despite new government advice, ...

The Royal Insitution of Chartered Surveyors has updated its External Wall Systems 1 (EWS1) form with the agreement of lending bodies to reflect new ‘proportionate’ fire safety guidance backed by the ...

This caller tells LBC she has been quoted £160,000 just to get a form to help sell her house amid the cladding crisis. Crystel called into LBC to make a point on EWS1 forms after Housing Secretary ...

Flats in tower blocks that required EWS1 building safety forms rose 8% to 43,000 mortgage valuations in the three months to June, according to official data. But valuations demanded by lenders rose ...

Hundreds of thousands of leaseholders should be free to move home thanks to clearer guidance about which blocks of flats need to be checked for combustible cladding and other fire safety defects. Many ...

MP Clive Betts has written to the government to ask why new guidance, external designed to help about 500,000 leaseholders sell or remortgage their flats is not being followed. It was issued by the ...

Leaseholders are being duped into paying thousands of pounds to fraudsters faking inspection forms amid concerns over fire safety. Which? has evidence that at least one firm has issued fake External ...