Hot Seat
Clive Collisson, managing director of County Homes by Ambrosden Court, sometimes takes to the air Biggles-style to check out progress on site.
Takeovers tune market
Housebuilder’s enhanced survey of “who’s building where” reveals the effects of recent takeovers and suggests an easing off in applications in some areas. Stev…
Nightmare
What keeps housebuilders awake at night? What are the big worries for the industry? Housebuilder surveyed scores of key industry figures to uncover the big iss…
The Investigator
[MMC-IMG=223-A=Right] Bank of England monetary policy committee member and former CBI chief economist Kate Barker is part way through her government-commission…
Stormy summer in Westminster
Will Howie looks back on an unusually lively summer at Westminster for both the government and the housebuilding sector.
[MMC-IMG=208-A=Left] Getting the message across
John Stewart draws some personal lessons from his work on the Barker Review of housing supply
[MMC-IMG=207-A=Left] Land battle mustn’t draw fire from planning fight
The battlelines of the Barker Review era are now being drawn - and the war, as ever, will be over land. Who owns it and what are they planning to do with it?
Land banks are a necessity - Barker
Kate Barker, the Bank of England economist charged with investigating housing undersupply, has accepted the need for housebuilders to hold realistic land banks…
Construction deaths continue to fall
Seventy-one workers were killed in the construction industry last year, the second lowest figure recorded, dropping from 80 the year before and 105 in 2000-200…
in brief
Wolsey funding Wolsey Securities has agreed a new deal with Bank of Scotland allowing it to fund an extra 275 homes each year. The loans are available to small…
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