Housing News – Page 218
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Legal & General backs away from private rental initiative
Insurer will not invest hundreds of millions in £5bn scheme after Treasury fails to guarantee returns
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NewsLloyds bank to buy stake in United House
Private equity arm of bank close to agreeing deal that will see chairman exit
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NewsHealey reveals green revamp for planning rules
Housing minister to invest £10m in improving skills, back second wave of eco-towns and overhaul three planning policies
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NewsHousebuyers return after cold snap
Rise in new buyer enquiries is being outstripped by increase in housing supply, say surveyors
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NewsKickstart round two unlocks over 5,000 new homes
Almost £83m will boost affordable housing provision and create apprenticeship places
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NewsBovis Homes posts £4.8m pre-tax profit
Housebuilder overcomes last year's £78.7m pre-tax loss on the back of £281.5m turnover
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NewsValue of Urban Splash halved after ‘humbling’ year
Developer that epitomised the New Labour ‘urban renaissance’ admits to fighting battle for survival
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NewsGood Employer Guide 2010: Be the best
The survey to reveal the construction industry’s best companies to work for is now open
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NewsUnexplainable homes: German sausage
A continental approach to housing uses colourful facades to show just who owns what
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NewsApollo launches affordable housing division
Social housing maintenance firm aims to achieve 'significant turnover' within five years
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NewsPersimmon posts profit of £77.8m as buyers return
Housebuilder says it will open 90 sites in the first six months of 2010
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NewsCountryside loses appeal over section 106 row
Communities secretary rejects housebuilder's attempt to build less than 40% affordable housing on neighbouring Cambridge schemes
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NewsOrchard Village gets go-ahead for phase two
Havering estate regeneration by Circle Anglia receives HCA funding and planning approval for second phase of 555-home scheme
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NewsHouse prices suffer first fall for 10 months
Nationwide says snow is partly to blame for February's 1% price fall
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NewsCouncils start early on Tory planning overhaul
Local authorities already on slowdown as green paper sets out plans for system shake-up
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NewsKerslake hits back at Cabe’s Kickstart criticism
The Homes and Communities Agency has hit back at allegations it has funded substandard housing through the £1.06bn Kickstart programme as the political row over the scheme escalates
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Proposal to pay off Nimbys slammed as ‘cheque-book’ planning
Tory proposals to allow developers to come to financial arrangements with objecting neighbours in order to secure their support have been denounced as “cheque-book planning”
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McCann Homes finance boss buys out chief executive
The former finance director of £73m–turnover family-run housebuilder McCann Homes has bought out the chief executive as part of a major restructure
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NewsMorgan Sindall bags £30m housing repairs job
Affordable housing arm Lovell is picked by Gloucester City Homes for five-year maintenance contract
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NewsRedrow's revenue jumps 25%
Half year results show revenue at housebuilder climbing to £187.2m as legal completions rise 21.5%