Housing News – Page 245
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NewsGalliford Try buys failed firm's housing assets
Contractor pays £7m for five housebuilding sites belonging to Wright Group, which recently went into administration
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NewsPlease sir, can we have some more?
Of course the Budget didn’t give us as much as we wanted. But, says Jon Neale, it’s questionable whether even more cash would help housebuilders. What we want more of is fresh thinking
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NewsFirms line up to take part in HCA's private rental scheme
Housing associations, property firms and banks consider investment in agency’s property fund
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NewsHot property
A London housing association has obtained planning permission for 26 affordable homes in Peckham, south London
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Boris Johnson set to clash with government over ‘garden grab’
Moves to protect gardens from development will set the mayor of London on a collision course with central government, according to the Royal Town Planning Institute
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Kier council win
Kier has been named preferred bidder for a contract in the north-east of England that could be worth more than £600m
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Zero-carb confusion
The building industry underestimates the difficulty of building zero-carbon homes by 2016, a survey has found
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Modular eco-home
Viridis Homes last week launched a modular house that it says is the first of its kind to reach level five of the Code for Sustainable Homes and can be built for just under £82,000.
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NewsPortland green housing scheme goes in for planning
HTA-designed development will have 77 homes, of which 23 will be affordable
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NewsBovis Homes reports 71% rise in trading in 2009
Private reservations for first four months strongly up on last year but still 25% down on 2007 peak
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NewsBarratt names new finance chief
David Thomas joins the housebuilder from video retail group Game to take over from Mark Pain
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NewsHouse prices drop 1.7%, reports Halifax
Market hopes dampened as lender's April figures show a continuing decline
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NewsTwo London schemes to get £16m kickstart
Homes and Communities Agency’s money will help Lambeth and Haringey development to complete
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NewsKier wins 10-year North Tyneside council contract
Agreement to improve, repair and maintain 16,000 council homes could be worth by worth up to £600m
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NewsGovernment launches fund for private rental housing
Homes and Communities Agency wants to encourage financial institutions to invest in rental property
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NewsBanks invited to bid for slice of £400m housing fund
Barratt and Countryside among housebuilders lining up bids to unlock schemes with Budget cash
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NewsDoncaster’s cultural 25%: Civic and cultural quarter
Muse Developments, the regeneration arm of Morgan Sindall, has won a £300m contract to build a civic and cultural quarter in Doncaster
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Cabe report into social housing design attacked as ‘unfair’
A housing association and a developer have hit out at a report that found social housing to be no better designed than private homes
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NewsIt could have been a lot worse
The housing industry was on tenterhooks before the Budget, hoping for a solution to all its woes. Well, we didn’t quite get that, say Toby Lloyd and Anthony Brand, but it’s a start …