Home Buying and Selling Reform

Overview

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is consulting on proposals to address longstanding issues with our home buying and selling system. The current process is long, complicated and frustrating. It takes an average of 120 days to complete and around 1 in 3 transactions fail.   

Subject to the outcome of this consultation, we will publish a roadmap setting out how government will transform home buying and selling over the course of this parliament.

We want to ensure future reforms are practical, enforceable, and built to last, and that both consumers and professionals can be assured that the system will change in a meaningful and sustainable way.