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The latest news, features, comment and analysis of the UK housebuilding market covering policy, regulation, planning, technology, new developments and products

New buyers 'fighting back' despite slowdown

02-Nov-2007 Fears that first time buyers have been dissuaded from entering the property market because of uncertainty regarding house prices appear to be unfo…

Delivering Green, Affordable Homes more Quickly - Government Response to Callcutt Review

Housing Minister Yvette Cooper today welcomed the publication of the Callcutt Review into delivering new housing and announced a major new drive to speed up th…

Housebuilders upbeat on Calcutt Review

The housebuilding industry has broadly welcomed John Calcutt's conclusion that it will be possible to deliver 240,000 homes per year by 2016 to zero-carbon sta…

Building for Life 2008

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Halifax rewards green credentials with competitive mortgage deals

Halifax, UK mortgage lender, has announced the launch of two new products exclusively available to customers buying their home from selected homebuilders. The…

CABE calls for entries to Building for Life awards

CABE and the Home Builders Federation are now inviting designers and developers to submit schemes for next years Building for Life awards. The Building for Li…

The True Value Of New Build Property

measures has been introduced this week to help ensure that valuers, lenders and conveyancers capture the true value of newly-built property -- a market that ha…

OFT GIVES HOUSE BUILDING INDUSTRY CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH

An investigation by the OFT into house building in the UK has given the industry a huge boost at what is a most challenging time. It will also give potential b…

Self-build property only for "limited percentage of the market"

Sellers considering dropping out of the housing market and building their own home have been warned that self-build homes are 'only a solution for a limited pe…

OFT says house building sector is broadly competitive

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has published its market study into the home building sector which says that whilst the sector is broadly competitive, many ho…