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Stewart Baseley speech to 5th Annual Housing Market Intelligence Conference

Challenges facing the housebuilding sector in 2008

Planning Gain Supplement scrapped - reaction

Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced the government is to consider proposals put forward by an alliance of developers and homebuilders as an alternative t…

Industry calls on government to help FTBs

Lenders have backed the New Home Marketing Board's call for the government to introduce sweeping measures to help first-time buyers. Faster planning processes,…

Firstrung, first time buyers, the week in focus

Large numbers of young people are being forced to live in shared accommodation because they cannot get onto the property ladder... New research shows that 61 p…

HBF Wales Weekly News Summary Friday 5 October 2007

Top stories this week Zero carbon guidance published... read Conservatives announce housing plans... read Bank rate maintained at 5.75%... read

HBF Weekly News Summary Friday 5 October 2007

Top stories this week Zero carbon guidance published... read Conservatives announce housing plans... read Bank rate maintained at 5.75%... read

Step on to the ladder

A BIT of good news for struggling first-time buyers: there are ways of protecting yourself from rising interest rates and getting a leg up the property ladder …