New homes pick up in early 2012
Recent positive trends in new home sales and private housebuilding activity should be supported by FirstBuy and NewBuy, says John Stewart. While several economic indicators provide tentative evidence of a wider improvement in consumer demand.
Design critics need to see bigger picture
Ben Roskrow says that the design intelligentsia needs to see the bigger picture before criticising new homes design.
Designer snobbery
Ben Roskrow argues that views about new home design are fuelled by a design snobbery that not only manifests itself in architects’ surveys but also in popular culture – even in the Harry Potter films
Satisfying the shareholders
Steve Menary looks at the implications of Persimmon's announcement to pay out £1.9 billion of dividends to shareholders
From Cannes to Brighton
Richard Jones, head of regeneration and growth at EC Harris, reports back from property events in the south of France and the south of England and finds renewed optimism in the residential sector
“Different ways of building for different customers"
In the second of two articles on the mediumterm outlook for home builders, John Stewart argues that the much more diversified nature of supply and demand to emerge over the past decade will continue to define the industry's future
Damned if you do…
Ben Roskrow addresses the negativity levelled at NewBuy and explains why the scheme is not a "love-in" between industry and government
The right to open our windows
New research shows that people like the cost savings in their energy efficient new homes but that they are not fully embracing the sustainability adventure. Ben Roskrow says the industry should not be forced to build homes that folk won't buy
Aiming to please
After Artisan’s shares were dropped from the AIM index, Steve Menary tracks the activities of other smaller listed housebuilders
Learning lessons on framework tenders
Richard Jones of EC Harris gives advice to clients and service providers on best practice for framework tenders in light of the imminent re-tender of the HCA’s delivery partner panel
