Save us from confused thinking on cities
Andy Martin of communities consultancy PPS Group argues that now is not the time to change the way we are seeking to address the regeneration of our towns and …
Can the SMEs fill the housing supply gap?
Steve Menary looks at the latest results from the listed housebuilders and wonders whether some of the smaller players have the potential to up their output to…
Ground rents attracting institutional investment
Housebuilders and developers can add significant value to their returns by disposing of their freeholds, taking advantage of historically high ground rent pric…
Housing to the fore in conference season
HBF executive chairman Stewart Baseley gives the industry reaction to the high profile of housebuilding in the political conference season and addresses Ed Mil…
Making planning work
To achieve the required step-change in housebuilding, local authorities must accept responsibility for meeting the housing needs of their whole community and t…
Help to Buy at centre of the political debate
At the HMI conference shadow communities secretary Hilary Benn did not dwell on the initiative for long, but what he did say was that the Bank of England shoul…
Exploring Help to Buy
Keith Barker, commercial director at Wienerberger, says suppliers and housebuilders need to work together to meet the demand increase generated by the Help to …
Back on land and plans
With land buying firmly back on the agenda, Steve Menary looks at the landbanks of the big players and where they are planning to build
Business models emerge from the ashes of recession
Richard Jones, group head of regeneration and growth at EC Harris, says that the recession has prompted a re-evaluation of business models, sometimes …
Industry capacity key to solving supply crisis
To have any hope of solving our housing supply crisis we need to restore pre-1991 supply conditions so that housebuilders can respond to market demand and indu…
