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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…

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 …

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…

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

Planning approvals and house sales rise

Local authorities approved increasing numbers of residential planning applications in the last quarter of 2012 - al

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

Million home backlog expected by 2010

Housing production has hit an 80 year low and could take seven years to recover. The shortfall in new homes for 2009 could fill a city the size of Nottingham,…

29/09/2009: Unite: Meeting Housing Need: Building Britain out of recession

Meeting Housing Need: Building Britain out of recession

Buyers give new homes the thumbs up

Homebuyers are more than satisfied with the quality of their new homes, according to a new survey from Britain's house bui

NewBuy Cyrmu looking set to be available in spring, according to HBF's Stewart Baseley

With the one year anniversary of NewBuy we spoke to Stewart Baseley, chie