All Housebuilders articles – Page 11
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NewsHalifax reports first annual UK house price drop in over a decade
Halifax has reported the first annual decline for UK house prices in over a decade, with the price of an average home down 1% compared with a year ago.
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NewsQ&A: SME developers could prove key in housing delivery
Property entrepreneur Tex Jones on setting up The Developers Club to help support young housebuilders.
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InsightAvamore’s Michael Dean on Labour’s housing policy: balancing ambition and practicality
Labour’s housing policy aims to address the pressing issue of the housing crisis in the UK. With a focus on affordable housing and streamlining the planning system, the party presents ambitious goals for becoming the ‘party of home ownership’.
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NewsLabour’s cut-price land sale plans divide industry
The Labour Party’s plans to force landowners to sell plots at lower prices to local authorities have divided industry experts.
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NewsQuintain and FORE Partnership sign up to new Healthy Homes Checklist
Ekkist, wellbeing consultancy for the built environment, has launched a new Healthy Homes Checklist, with developers Quintain and FORE Partnership among the first to sign up.
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InsightMaterial steps for tackling inflation
Editor: Disruption to the construction sector caused by the volatility of material price inflation shows no signs of abating, with recent analysis of Office for National Statistics data showing inflation added £23bn to the cost of the sector’s output compared with pre-pandemic levels.
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NewsGove unlikely to back down on beauty
Planning experts believe housing secretary Michael Gove is likely to retain his stance that housing schemes should be “beautiful”, despite news he could rethink his rejection of a Berkeley Homes scheme in Kent on aesthetic grounds.
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NewsVistry to revisit executive pay policy after shareholders revolt
Vistry has indicated it will reconsider its new executive pay policy after nearly half of its shareholders voted against its bonus plans.
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OnlineDominus hires projects director
Dominus has appointed Will Charlton as its new projects director to help grow the group’s UK pipeline.
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NewsRockwell plans 269-home luxury London riverside scheme
London-based mixed-use developer Rockwell has revealed plans for a 269-home luxury river-front development in Hammersmith & Fulham.
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OnlineVistry expects profit boost at sales rate improves
Housebuilding giant Vistry has told investors its sales rate has continued to improve in the year to date as it pointed to a surge in full-year profit.
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InsightGovernment must get to grips with housing crisis
The housing crisis lurches from tragedy to farce and no one is making any more land, leaving millions of renters lightyears away from owning their own residence.
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InsightAlastair Stewart on the futureproofing of new housing developments
Snow in May – even if it is in Manchester? Except the artificially produced flurry is not at the northern capital’s indoor ski slope but from a housing research project trying to preserve the future of the natural white stuff.
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InsightPocket’s Marc Vlessing on how an SME housebuilding renaissance can help fill the delivery vacuum
The longest and arguably most interventionist demand-side state-sponsored housing policy since the Right to Buy has come to a final end, bringing the curtain down on its 10th anniversary.
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NewsModular housing still set fair despite L&G factory closure
While firm pulls the plug on its modular factory, others in the sector are attracting interest from investors
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NewsCivitas Social Housing agrees £485m takeover deal with CK Asset Holdings
Civitas Social Housing has agreed terms to sell the company to Wellness Unity, a wholly owned subsidiary of CK Asset Holdings, following a £485m cash takeover offer.
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NewsKhan makes election pledge to create City Hall housing developer
Sadiq Khan has pledged to create a new GLA-owned housing developer if he is re-elected as London mayor at next year’s elections.
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ProfessionalDenser development could help meet UK housing needs
UK cities are among the least densely populated in Europe – but this must change to solve the housing crisis.
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Insight‘We want to be the UK’s largest housebuilder’: Big interview with Countryside Partnerships
Stephen Teagle, chief executive of Countryside Partnerships, tells Property Week about the housebuilder’s growth plans following its merger with Vistry Group and the outlook for the sector.
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NewsEx housing secretary says scrapping housebuilding targets was ‘major mistake’
Former housing secretary Simon Clarke has branded the scrapping of housebuilding targets a “major mistake” after the Conservative Party’s dire local election results.
