A need for real partnerships
Phil Slater, Indesit Company channel manager, Portfolio team, argues that as the market picks up all suppliers to the housing industry must ensure that real relationships are forged and maintained through the creation of real partnerships with customers and suppliers
Stock responses
As the housing market continues its recovery, Steve Menary looks at City sentiment – will it buy, hold or sell?
Costs rising for the housebuilding sector
Richard Jones, group head of regeneration and growth, says that costs in the residential sector will be forced up next year and in 2015 as the pressure on a decimated labour market and a shrunken product sector increases
To 2016 and beyond
As government measures to support housing demand are withdrawn and interest rates begin to rise, the postelection government will have to decide whether to extend Help to Buy equity loan to maintain home building says John Stewart
More of the same in 2014 please
All three main political parties are being vocal about the need to build houses and are clambering over themselves to keep the industry on side
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 cities – years of work are set to come to fruition
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 drive the industry towards 200,000 homes a year
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 prices says Richard Jones, group head of regeneration and growth at EC Harris
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 Miliband's "use it or lose it" threat on land
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 there must be a much more realistic view of the role and limits of planning, says John<br />Stewart
