Housing News – Page 235
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NewsRDAs fear raid on budgets to fund £1.6bn housing package
England’s regional development agencies have appealed to the government not to raid their budgets to fund its £1.6bn housing package
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NewsPersimmon scents upturn
Persimmon has said it will start work on 50 sites by the end of 2009 in a cautiously optimistic trading update this week
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NewsRedrow warns results will be at 'lower end' of analyst estimates
Housebuilder's trading update reveals 14% in average sale price over the year
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NewsBarratt on target for housing completions and margins
Housebuilder's second-half trading update shows sales rising and prices levelling
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NewsNationwide offers 125% mortgage deal
Offer is aimed at homeowners in negative equity seeking to move house
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NewsGalliford Try figures put Barratt and Redrow in the shade
Trio of trading updates show stabilisation in the housebuilding sector, with two reporting rise in sales
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NewsLondon mayor pledges end to 'hobbit homes'
New housing design guide that sets minimum space requirements is welcomed by RIBA president
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NewsHCA invests £32m in Greenwich housing projects
Funding for developments, which will contain mix of homes for social and intermediate rent, shared equity and private sale, is part of plan to kickstart housing market
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NewsLend Lease renegotiates with 2012 village supply chain
Team on athletes' village attempts to take advantage of falling prices, as latest designs of scheme are released
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NewsPersimmon to start work on 50 new housing sites
Housebuilder says conditions in the UK housing market are starting to improve
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NewsVinoly returns home to build luxury flats
Battersea Power Station architect completes first project in native country of Uruguay
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NewsGovernment to miss housing target by more than 10,000
£1.5bn aimed at social housing fails to mask dramatic shortfall in affordable homes
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NewsStirring up apathy: construction standards for affordable housing grants
Those bidding for funds from the National Affordable Housing Programme are being asked to sign up to new construction standards. Chris Moquet wonders why so few have done so
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Homes for east London
London mayor Boris Johnson has approved plans for 750 homes in east London
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Mansell’s £3.6m win
Construction firm Mansell has won a £3.6m contract to design and build 20 homes
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Social mortgages
One of the UK’s largest housing associations will bring out its own range of mortgages
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Calls to delay the code
A Midlands-based developer is calling on the government to delay the introduction of the Code for Sustainable Homes
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Fate of UDCs in balance as government ponders their role
A government review of urban development corporations may decide to abolish them and hand their powers to local authorities
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NewsLib Dems warn of repossession time bomb as rescue scheme fails
Alarm grows after news that government's £280m mortgage rescue scheme has helped just six households
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NewsHCA to offer contractors land for housing
Agency to tempt new building firms into housing market with land for equity deal