Heron Tower restart signals housing sector upturn
Work is set to restart on a 35-storey residential tower in the City of London as signs start to emerge that confidence is returning to the private housing mark…
Leaked letter warns Tories to delay property developments
Conservative MPs and councils have been advised to delay major commercial and developments until a Tory administration gets into power, according to a letter f…
Builders fear rising prices of 'green' homes
The cost of new-build homes is set to rise by an average of ?7,000 from next spring, when government energy efficiency regulations are due to come into force. …
Construction jobs to gain from £10m scheme
The UK government?s Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has announced plans to inject ?10m of funding into stalled housing projects across the country. The aim …
Man of the house
John Healey is the latest in a long line of Labour housing ministers ? and he plans to stay in the job long enough to solve Britain?s housing problems ?It is …
Room to breed: Spacious new homes designed for families are back in fashion
Property booms don't always mean better housing. In fact, when the market was rocketing, the standard of new homes plummeted almost in equal measure as develop…
John Cridland speech to Home Builders Federation
'If as I believe we have a small economic launch pad for growth then the budget needs to provide a boost to business
Give councils freedom to build homes
From Sir Steve Bullock and others. Sir, Today, peers will discuss removing the cap on local authority housing deb
Planning approvals and house sales rise
Local authorities approved increasing numbers of residential planning applications in the last quarter of 2012 - al
Shapps: we'll be a nation of builders
09/10/2009 | By Caroline Thorpe, Philippa Ward The Conservatives will attempt to position themselves as the party that will turn Britain into a ?nation of hou…
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