All Housing articles – Page 297
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NewsMortgage lending up in September
New approvals show first monthly rise in a year, but lending still nearly 50% down on last year
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Private renting ‘must increase’
The private rented sector should be expanded, according to a communities department report.
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NewsCredit crunch spreads to medium-sized housebuilders
£254m-turnover David McLean is pushed under by £100m debts, joining £131m-turnover Taggart
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NewsLivingstone’s climate change tsar is made redundant
Allan Jones goes in climate change shake up at London Development Agency
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NewsBRE says steel frame is fastest way to build homes
Research body compares steel, concrete, timber and brick to combat ‘inefficiency’ in industry
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NewsBirthplace of the blues: The US housing crisis
Richard Snook of the Centre for Economics and Business Research goes back to the roots of the credit crunch to work out when the misery might end for the US and UK housing markets
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Woking council to spend up to £300m on stalled sites
Surrey local authority pioneers scheme to purchase residential sites for social housing
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NewsHouse prices crash 15% in a year
Average UK home now worth £30,000 less than a year ago, says Nationwide
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NewsHome repossessions rise 71%
Repossessions in second quarter show ‘significant’ rise, while prices fall 2.2% in the year to September
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NewsLet it be: did a government review of private rented housing go far enough?
Nick Jopling of CB Richard Ellis says what's missing from the Rugg Review, why a build-to-let sector should not need tax breaks and how student accommodation could be the solution to the housing shortage
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NewsTaking stock: how two housing associations swapped homes
The housing regulator has urged landlords to swap homes to concentrate their efforts on particular neighbourhoods but few have done so. Now A2Dominion Group tells us of its recent trade with nearby landlord Moat
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NewsHouse prices will take years to recover from slump
2.5m homeowners face negative equity as prices are set to drop by 25%
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News8,000 construction jobs may go in Northern Ireland
Industry body says employment in the region is at 'crisis point'
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NewsFind better housing for migrants, says charity
Migrant workers will live in overcrowded rental accommodation unless councils clamp down on rogue landlords, says BSHF
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NewsNegative equity threat to 1.2m homeowners
About 500,000 mortgage holders already owe more than the value of their home says Bank of England
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NewsCare home security: the danger of killing with kindness
A design standard intended to improve home security could actually put care home residents at risk in an emergency. Our columnist describes how he helped to amend it
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NewsLondon mayor retracts opposition to three London towers
Boris Johnson u-turns over £1bn Waterloo development that includes 33-storey tower
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NewsFive ways to save the housebuilding industry
Over the past year, the government has launched numerous measures to halt the plunge in housing starts. But will any of them work? Joey Gardiner asks the experts
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NewsOne we made earlier
Modular contractor Spaceover has developed the UK’s first prefabricated two-storey family homes at its £10m Newhall development in Harlow, Essex.
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NewsBanks ‘would offer new waiver’ to Barratt and Taylor Wimpey
As Taylor Wimpey rescue talks continue, lenders say they will reshape deals rather than allow a breach