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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…

Builders demand new carbon pledge

House builders have questioned who will pick up the bill for the Government's reiterated pledge for all new homes to be zero carbon by 2016.

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…

HBF report shows optimism for housing market

The latest survey by the Home Builders Federation (HBF) has found that 60% of housebuilders reported an increase in sales compared to the same period a year ag…

Housing minister outlines further details of definition of zero carbon

The news came as John Healey, minister for housing, outlined some further details on the definition of zero carbon, which housebuilders will have to meet by 20…

Property asking prices rise in July

Average property asking prices in England and Wales rose to £227,864 in July, boosting hopes of a resurgence in the housing market, according to new rese…

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…

Builders urge lenders to ease criteria

Homebuilders have called on banks and building societies to ease criteria on mortgages for new-build properties.

Clampdown threatens 13% hike in labour costs

Government determined to force through plan to put all construction workers on PAYE system

Green shoots of recovery?

Is house building finally coming out of the doldrums?