All Housing articles – Page 174
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Comment
What really drives planning applications?
Using data from Barbour ABI we’ve looked at how market conditions influence planning applications, and the results are perhaps surprising
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News
‘Build to rent’ viable across England, says EC Harris
Research finds ‘build to rent’ model is viable across more than 50% of English local authorities
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Comment
Is it wintertime for housing policy?
The leaves are falling, and the government has just downgraded the importance of housing policy. But a new model is still needed to build at scale
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News
ISG lands £20m high-end London resi scheme
Contractor will restore three grade II-listed buildings into luxury homes
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Features
Uphill all the way: Pre-commencement conditions
Housebuilders are up in arms about councils’ use of pre-commencement conditions, which they say are holding back schemes that have been granted planning permission
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News
Countryside bags £150m Alma regeneration project
Housing developer will redevelop the London Borough of Enfield’s Alma Estate
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Comment
Housing challenge requires whole new politics
Are the current crop of politicians up to the task of solving the UK housing crisis?
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News
Osborne tried to block zero carbon pledge
Former minister accuses chancellor of attempting to walk away from zero carbon homes target
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Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in September 2013
Completions and registrations are both significantly up on this time last year
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Pocket sells 10% of its shares
Greater London Enterprise Group to take stake in affordable housing developer
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Features
Foreign investment in housing
With London house prices rising 10% this month and alarm that more people than ever are being priced out of home ownership, pressure is growing to clamp down on foreign investors
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Comment
CIL: a tax on all your houses
Could the Community Infrastructure Levy be more of a brake on housebuilding than local opposition?
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News
Over 30 firms appointed to £1bn housing framework
Galliford Try, Morgan Sindall and Wates Living Space among those to win a place
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Comment
Strengthening data push construction forecasters towards greater optimism
There is plenty of room for greater hope, but there remains plenty of reasons to temper optimism with caution
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News
Housebuilding gathers paces across the UK
Housebuilding is rising in every part of the UK for the first time since the market crash, according to the RICS
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Mortgage lending at highest level for five years
Quarterly figures from the CML show lending up by a third on 2012
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News
Keepmoat takes private residential arm into the South
Firm expands into the South of England to take advantage of rising market
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Features
Modern methods of construction: Material change?
Will the surge in demand lead to a permanent shift towards modern methods of construction?
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Comment
SME housebuilders key to beat housing crisis
The industry as currently formed cannot produce more than 150,000 homes per year
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Features
Interview: Jeff Adams, United House
The United House boss on how the firm morphed from a social housing contractor into a developer with a £600m pipeline