Property

Legislation will be introduced if necessary to ensure more upfront information is available to prospective home buyers, the government has revealed in its ‘Levelling Up’ white paper. The 332-page document, published yesterday, states that around a third of all housing transactions fall through, costing people hundreds of millions of pounds, and pledges to improve the ‘expensive, time-consuming and stressful’ process of buying and selling a home. It says: ‘The UK government and the industry will…