Features

Building sites

Websites are the most essential tool in a housebuilder’s marketing armoury. Andrew Leech finds that they save time and money and could move sales in the right …

the innovators

In the face of a downturn housebuilders are being asked to raise standards and meet new regulations. Thank goodness, then, for the innovators –suppliers of sys…

Web consultancy

With the Action Plan consultation website now live and concerns over the potential skills gap continuing to be a major concern in the industry, NHBC’s Rob Lock…

Right to comply

On April 1 the new Consumer Code for Home Builders came into force. Rod MacEachrane, interim chairman of the consumer code management board, explains how house…

High diving

Grainger is the UK’s largest quoted residential property owner in Britain and also has a lively and innovative development arm. Ben Roskrow talks to Grainger’s…

Piling power

Good result

Steve Morgan is back in the industry and he has a lot to say – about the mistakes of the past, today’s planners, trendy design critics, the Tories and Wolves d…

A view from the east

Four years ago ex Charles Church md and CDC2020 boss Nick Smith(right) took up the challenge of overseeing the building of a pioneering project in Oman. Here h…

Queensgate takes off

It is back to basics for Inland Homes with Queensgate, its mixed use scheme featuring simply-built family homes. Suzie Mayes reports on the development under c…

Miller’s light

Miller Homes chief executive Tim Hough is looking to take the UK’s biggest privately owned housebuilder back into profit through steady growth and high quality…