Market outlook improves
Ongoing market challenges have seen housebuilders turn in interim results reflecting mixed fortunes for the six months to June. Redrow and the Miller Group rep…
Shelter survey rebuffed
Fundraiser seeks industry support for hospice
Sarah O’Grady, property editor of the Daily and Sunday Express, is appealing for housebuilders to support a fundraiser she is heading up in Peterborough on Sat…
Housing Corp changes bid process
The Housing Corporation has made changes to the next stage of the bidding process for its £3.9 billion of affordable housing funding in response to criticism f…
EP will publish new "national standards"
English Partnerships (EP) is drawing up a set of "national standards" that will apply to all new homes built on its sites, in an attempt to pull together the r…
Miliband rebukes nimby critics of housing supply increase plans
Communities minister David Miliband has delivered a feisty speech on the future of housebuilding, focusing on social justice and maintaining the nation’s econo…
COMMENT - Allison Heller
[MMC-IMG=1861-A=Left] Gordon Brown spoke powerfully of the need to build the nation as "one moral country" in his address to the Labour Party Conference. And w…
Housing supply boost not hampered by industry labour and skills shortages
Skills shortages do not represent a barrier to the expansion of the housebuilding industry, according to a new report commissioned by CITB-ConstructionSkills a…
Fairclough acquisition puts Miller into industry top ten
The Miller Group has bought Fairclough Homes from Centex for £264 million, in a deal that has realised rumours that were circulating over the purchase followin…
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