UK government announce open consultation on home buying and selling reform
10 November 2025
Posted by: Lauren Almey
The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) within UK government has announced an open consultation to garner opinion on departmental proposals to improve the UK’s current home buying and selling process.
As per the MHCLG, the process today is “long, complicated and frustrating”, with inefficiency, slowness and transactional failure having wide-ranging, detrimental impacts on both the UK housing market and the national economy.
The government has been looking to the systems used in other countries, such as Norway, for inspiration, and to start formulating proposals for reform. This newly opened consultation on said proposals is to “ensure we have sought input from professionals, consumers and the general public before publishing a finalised roadmap.”
The consultation will be open until 29 December 2025, with the roadmap provisionally due to be published “in winter 2025 to 2026.”
For more context, visit the MHCLG consultation web page.
To complete the survey online, find the consultation questions here.
You can also put any queries about the consultation to the MHCLG team via: homebuyingandselling@communities.gov.uk
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