Select Committee · Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Affordability of Home Ownership
Status: Open
Opened: 17 Jul 2025
The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee is holding an inquiry into the affordability of home ownership. Its focus is on people who are looking to buy property for themselves and their families to live in (owner-occupier), as opposed to those who purchase property to rent out as private accommodation (buy-to-let) or as speculative investment. …
Oral evidence sessions
| Date | Witnesses | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Feb 2026 | Alanna Barber · HM Treasury, Lucy Rigby KC MP · HM Treasury, Matthew Pennycook MP · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Melanie Montanari · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | View ↗ |
| 6 Jan 2026 | Beth Rudolf · Home Buying and Selling Council, David O'Leary · Home Builders Federation, Joe Pepper · PEXA UK, Paul Rickard · Pocket Living, Steve Collins · Rentplus-UK, Timothy Douglas · Propertymark | View ↗ |
| 18 Nov 2025 | Ann Santry · New Homes Quality Board, Charles Roe · UK Finance, Henry Jordan · Nationwide, Robin Fieth · Building Societies Association, Stephanie Charman · Association of Mortgage Intermediaries, Sue Phillips · Shared Ownership Resources, Will Jeffwitz · National Housing Federation | View ↗ |
| 28 Oct 2025 | Peter Levell · Institute for Fiscal Studies, Sophie Hale · Resolution Foundation, Stanimira Milcheva · University College London, Vicky Spratt · The i Paper | View ↗ |
Correspondence
| Date | Direction | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Apr 2026 | To cttee | Letter from the Chair to the Minister of State for Housing and Planning dated 2… |
| 11 Mar 2026 | To cttee | Letter from the Minister of State for Housing and Planning and the Economic Sec… |
| 4 Feb 2026 | To cttee | Letter from the Home Builders Federation to the Chair dated 23 January 2026 con… |
| 7 Jan 2026 | To cttee | Letter from Nationwide to the Chair dated 1 December 2025 concerning the Afford… |
| 7 Jan 2026 | To cttee | Letter from the Building Societies Association to the Chair dated 1 December 20… |
| 26 Nov 2025 | To cttee | Letter from the Secretary of State to the Chair dated 20 November 2025 concerni… |
| 6 Nov 2025 | To cttee | Letter from the Chair to the Secretary of State dated 6 November 2025 concernin… |