'Upturn signs' in housing market
The housing market is showing the first signs of an upturn since 2006, the Home Builders Federation (HBF) has said. The body's survey of Britain's major home …
Clampdown threatens 13% hike in labour costs
Government determined to force through plan to put all construction workers on PAYE system
Builders urge lenders to ease criteria
Homebuilders have called on banks and building societies to ease criteria on mortgages for new-build properties.
Builders ask lenders to ease criteria for new homes
Homebuilders have called on banks and building societies to ease criteria on mortgages for new-build properties. John Stewart, the director of economic affair…
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 …
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 …
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…
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,…
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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