Housing News – Page 251
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NewsKeepmoat reports 25% profit rise
Healthy financials at social housing group believed to be drawing interest from private equity
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NewsHousebuilder shares rise as government underwrites banks' leading
Treasury plan to ease bank lending by underwriting billions in asset-backed debts could kick-start mortgage market
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NewsTottenham town hall refurbishment kicks off
Scheme will include renovation of the listed building and 109 new homes
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NewsBeckett unveils £200m mortgage rescue scheme
Housing associations to buy up homes of struggling mortgage-payers in 80 local authority areas
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NewsHCA will fund land purchase to kickstart housebuilding
Homes agency offers 50% of land buying costs to housing associations that promise to build more
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NewsResidents sue over collapse at prize-winning Bristol flats
Hearing set for next month after balconies cave in at luxury Feilden Clegg Bradley scheme
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NewsCubans in Castleford
Designs for a “conceptual” cultural centre for a West Yorkshire town have gone on show as part of its regeneration plans
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Planning applications: December 2008
Residential schemes at planning stage hold steady and some very big projects are in the pipeline
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NewsBrandon Street: Beautifying the beast
Southwark council in south London has given the green light to London & Quadrant’s plans to build new homes for Heygate estate residents in Elephant and Castle
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NewsLambeth blocks Make's Albert Embankment skyscraper
Council planning decision rules that 23-storey building would block light to nearby buildings
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NewsHouse prices to fall 11% this year
Total fall from 2007 peak of market to 2011 will be 30%, forecasts poll of analysts
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NewsBarratt cuts net debt by £230m
But trading update reveals completions down one-quarter in second half of 2008
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NewsRedrow warns full-year margins will be down
But housebuilder says cost cutting has brought down net debt to £270m at half-year point
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Self-build 'could save 50,000 construction jobs'
Report claims government intervention could double self-build in a year
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Apollo wins £22.5m social housing repair deal
Five-year contract covers all refurbishment and maintenance in William Sutton Homes' South and Central regions
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NewsHouse sales plummet despite rising enquiries
Buyer interest rises on the back of low interest rates and prices but sales fail to lift
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NewsTaylor Wimpey rules out debt-for-equity deal
Chief executive dismisses reports that lenders will take a slice of the company as he warns of further writedowns
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NewsTaylor Wimpey sources dismiss deal fears
Ahead of tomorrow's trading update sources say bank's credit committees 'very unlikely' to scupper deal
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NewsGalliford Try heads for housing top five
Chief exec says downturn will propel firm into top tier of housebuilders, as 500 staff put onto four-day week