First timers need savings help
Almost 80% of Britons believe the government should encourage first-time homebuyers to start saving regularly by establishing a national deposit savings scheme…
A game of risk
Housing minister John Healey says the government is looking at a different kind of housebuilding model (17 July, page 12), "less development-based, and almost …
Clampdown threatens 13% hike in labour costs
Government determined to force through plan to put all construction workers on PAYE system
'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 …
Builders feel the worst is over
The UK housing market is showing the first signs of an upturn in three years.
House prices on the rise
Property asking prices rose in July marking the fifth monthly rise this year, research showed today. The average asking price in England and Wales increased b…
What's your business plan, Mr Cameron?
If the number of people queueing to get into Bloomberg?s London?s headquarters last Monday morning was anything to go by, the City is desperate to discover wha…
HCA praises house building industry's response to Kickstart Programme
HCA praises house building industry's response to Kickstart Programme The house building industry?s ?appetite and capacity to develop? has been demonstrated b…
Affordable housing: Where next?
In 2007, when house prices were still soaring, the government promised to build 70,000 affordable homes a year by 2010/11. But the housing prices crash and th…
No more Mr Nice Guy: cracking down on bogus self-employment
The taxman has been moaning about bogus self-employment for decades. Well, he's not moaning anymore: he's getting his money, or else
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