Housing Comment – Page 20
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CommentAre we on the edge of a second house price crash?
Is the market heading for a protracted decline or will prices stabilise and hold or continue to creep up from the trough of a year or so ago.
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CommentWhat the death of the regional strategy means for housebuilding
In the absence of a new planning package from the government, the revocation of the RS could slow housebuilding yet further
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CommentNick Raynsford: It’s an inept beginning
So much for turning Britain into ’a nation of homebuilders’. Rather, the coalition seems hell bent on stopping the housing recovery in its tracks
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CommentThe end of garden grabbing: what it really means
Housebuilders shouldn’t fear anti-garden grabbing measures – there are worse planning changes afoot
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CommentThe real cost of regulation
According to the government, providing homebuyers with a plentiful supply of new homes has been an important goal for most of the past decade
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CommentWoolwich bridge: Crossings out
The Thames Gateway is being stymied by the lack of a bridge downriver of Woolwich. So, asks Nick Raynsford, why does the present mayor of London have no plans to build one?
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CommentIs the housing market turning?
This is, of course, the question that everybody wants to know the answer to. So let’s put all the evidence together and work out what it tells us...
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CommentIndustrialised housing's hour has come
When the upturn comes, there will be growing demand for the products of industrialised housing companies. But how can they survive until then?
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CommentWhat remains
The housebuilding industry that emerges from this recession will bear little resemblance to the one that grew out of the nineties slump
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CommentMy digital life: David Eastgate
Not your average chief executive, this ex-punk band member spends his online time surrounded by drums and drumming paraphernalia. Unless he’s on holiday, when you’ll find him talking to Building
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CommentBest buys for the taxpayer
Now we’re all Keynesians again, public money is going to be spent on stimulating demand. But in the case of social housing, what should it actually buy? Nick Raynsford has some suggestions
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CommentOur obscene failure
The response of the housebuilding industry to the downturn is to stop building and cast off the very people it will need to help it recover. We have to be far more imaginative, says David Lock
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Claims for falling property values: A turn for the worse
If a housing scheme is delayed and the property market slumps, can developers recover damages for the decrease in value?
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CommentSwallow hard
Open mike — Yes, moving to zero-carbon homes is going to be strange at first, but then again we’re living through strange days, says Matt Bell. Pretty soon it will all seem perfectly normal …
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CommentIt’s housing, stupid
What’s the one thing that affects our personal wellbeing, our personal wealth and our personal future more than any other? And what do you think might happen to any government that threatens it?
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CommentExperimenting on homeowners is wrong
When it comes to introducing low-carbon systems into houses, we have our work cut out to convince the owners that they’re not just guinea pigs for the next wave of technological misadventures, says Imtiaz Farookhi
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CommentGood design equals more homes
It’s an unlikely equation, but if developers and planners worried as much about quality as quantity, it would be easier to build Brown’s 3 million homes, argues Cabe’s Matt Bell
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CommentYes, in your backyard
If we’re ever going to get the homes we need, rural nimbys are just going to have to accept some development – maybe even a new next-door neighbour…
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CommentWannabe landlords kill neighbourhoods
We’ve achieved a lot in my three years as chief executive of the Housing Corporation, but there is much more to be done – in particular, tackling the buy-to-let menace