The importance ofleading with the landscape
Chris Harrop, group marketing director of Marshalls, supplier of hard landscaping, street furniture and water management products, says that putting landscapin…
A sound UK market trumps the China crisis
Despite the China crisis and concerns over impending interest rate rises, housebuilder share prices continue to be robust and are outperforming many other stoc…
HAs will evolve undergovernment "attack"
Housing associations are under attack by the government, says EC Harris head of residential Richard Jones. But this may just prompt a step change in the houseb…
Spotlight on industry intensifies
The upward trajectory in private housebuilding appears to have stalled. This, along with the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, will intensify the spo…
Building for a changing market
The latest New Homes Research from Countrywide, the UK's largest property services group, has found that recent changes to the housing market are beginning to …
Taking a helicopter view of the industry
Green looks at several areas of the industry, but I was particularly taken by his view on the changing profile of new home buyers and the role of the medium si…
Failing to plan is planning to fail
The industry needs to better plan its material purchases or it risks a repeat performance of the supply problems of 2013, warns Neil Thomas, director of housin…
George Osborne - the planning reformer
The chancellor George Osborne may be personally delivering planning reform but his well-meaning solutions will not deliver the goods, according to Stephen Byfi…
The new potential of MMC
MMC has become an attractive prospect for the sector, says Richard Jones, head of residential at EC Harris. So why has it not made an impact yet?
Full steam ahead
HBF executive chairman Stewart Baseley welcomes the various housing and planning measures announced over the summer and looks forward to "great leaps" to achie…
