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HBF Response - Draft Floods and Water Management Bill

HBF Weekly News Summary Friday 24 July 2009

HBF Weekly News Summary Friday 24 July 2009

No more Mr Nice Guy: cracking down on bogus self-employment

The taxman has been moaning about bogus self-employment for decades.

Builders demand new carbon pledge

House builders have questioned who will pick up the bill for the Governments 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 the…

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…

Government Statement of 16 July on Definition of Zero Carbon Homes

House prices on the rise

Property asking prices rose in July marking the fifth monthly rise this year, research showed. Published: 7:00AM BST 20 Jul 2009 The average asking price in En…

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 by…