This edition covers the return of Help to Buy as Your First Home, a rate cycle that has turned from cuts to rises, and incumbents paying for data layers rather than features. Two deep dives: Your First Home, where it is weak and who it really helps, and a special long read from a week on the ground in Dubai.

This edition covers England’s new rules-based planning system with its “default yes” for homes near well-connected stations, a 79% collapse in build-to-rent starts, and capital buying control. Deep dive: what the new NPPF changes for developers, lenders and investors, and what it does not.

This edition covers a new Prime Minister and Housing Secretary reaffirming the 1.5 million homes target, Pi Labs' 100th investment alongside Balfour Beatty's Fund IV commitment, and why the housing delivery gap keeps widening even as capital keeps flowing.