Housing News – Page 254
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McCarthy & Stone shuts office and cuts jobs
The UK’s biggest builder of private retirement housing is shedding 120 jobs and closing an office in its latest round of cuts
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NewsLevel best
A planned development of 34 homes in south London could be among the first large schemes to reach level five of the Code for Sustainable Homes.
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Cowboy agents should be publicly shamed, says report
Rogue property companies should be named and shamed, a report commissioned by the government says
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NewsWaterworld
Architects at Bovis Lend Lease have released designs for a sustainable floating house they hope to market as a solution to global warming.
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NewsDoubts over future of Oakdene after lenders call in debt
Housebuilder's shares are suspended after refinancing talks collapse
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NewsWest Midlands housing industry gets £53m bail out
New government scheme includes £12m to buy housebuilders' unsold stock for use as affordable homes
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NewsFirst carbon-negative residential development breaks ground
National Grid to take excess power from 172 homes
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NewsHalf of housebuilders in financial danger
Survey of top 1000 UK housebuilders reveal 496 on danger list
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NewsHousing minister pilloried for bullish house price stance
Government has "lost all touch with reality," opposition claims
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NewsDownturn will hit green gains in housing
Recession is already leading to reduced demand for sustainability in housing, reveals survey
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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