Housing News – Page 247
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NewsCofton directors seek to put firm into administration
Contractor and developer falls as Castlemore and KW Linfoot also go under
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NewsHouse prices plunge 18% in 12 months
Nationwide reports record annual drop in value as prices fall 1.8% during February
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NewsBerkeley launches £50m share issue to buy land
Housebuilder to spend £300m on land purchases, partly funded by its recently doubled cash reserves
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NewsMJ Gleeson reports £24m half-year loss as 60% of staff cut
Urban regeneration specialist announces gloomy interim results in housing market 'worst in living memory'
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NewsPublic work boosts Kier construction division
Half-year results show 43% fall in group profit but construction division bucks the trend with 21% rise
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NewsBarratt posts £592m loss and cuts 29% of staff
Housebuilder cut staff by 29% over last six months of 2008 during an 'intensely difficult' period
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NewsBouygues wins £10m of London school and housing work
Contractor is appointed to extend a primary school in Leyton and design and build new homes in Brent
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NewsMPs urge rise in social housing targets
Report sets out raft of recommendations to boost public housebuilding and criticises government's unclear budgeting
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NewsRedrow staff halved as firm heads into the red
Housebuilder reports first-half loss of £46.2m and reveals it has shed 50% of its staff in a year
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NewsAnger as Blears calls in Minerva's £1bn Ram Brewery
Wandsworth council leader slams decision to hold up EPR-designed regeneration scheme
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NewsIndustry demands government builds 100,000 new homes
Kate Barker leads new campaign group calling for £6bn to be spent on social housing over next two years
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NewsHome repossessions rose 54% last year
Council of Mortage Lenders reveals that 40,000 properties were taken into possession in 2008 and predicts a further 75,000 in 2009
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NewsPersimmon: 'No bonuses for 2008'
Housebuilder has revealed that top executives will not get bonuses after targets were not hit
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NewsIt’s time we earned to share
Shared ownership has been hailed as one of the ways to kickstart the housing market, but it will never work while mortgages on offer are so uncompetitive
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NewsShower enclosures
Shower enclosure manufacturer, Coram Showers, has re-designed its Optima range of enclosures
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NewsSecondary glazing
Knightstone Housing Association has converted a grade II-listed primary school in Long Ashton on the outskirts of Bristol into five apartments
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NewsZaha’s taps
Triflow Concepts has launched a futuristic-looking tap designed by architect Zaha Hadid
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NewsBellway customers may sue over social housing influx
‘Executive’ homeowners on Hampshire scheme complain they are living on ‘glorified council estate’
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Pipe insulation
Groundbreaker Systems has launched the Shalloduct, a pipe insulation system which can be used to protect water pipes from freezing in situations where a minimum trench depth of 750mm cannot be achieved.
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Threshold drainage system
ACO Technologies has launched ACO DoorWay Drain, a new threshold-level drain system