All Housing articles – Page 357
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Brown sets out stall to expand home ownership
Ruth Kelly expected to announce plans to extend share-purchase schemes for social tenants
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NewsTaylor Wimpey to keep building arm
Taylor Wimpey, the £6.7bn-turnover housebuilder that will be created when George Wimpey and Taylor Woodrow merge, is to retain its construction division.
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Britons more development-averse than North Americans
British people are five times more likely to oppose new housing schemes than their counterparts in the US, according to a survey.
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NewsEP acts to discourage buy-to-let investors
Regeneration body to introduce legal covenant preventing buyers from renting their property
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Galliford Try steps up land acquisition programme
Galliford Try has accelerated its acquisition of land after buying Linden Homes.
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NewsPersimmon Homes and M&S hit by email hoax
A Persimmon employee is inundated by emails from respondents hoping to receive up to £500 in M&S vouchers
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NewsJohn Laing JV seals £165m housing PFI deal
John Laing Social and Pinnacle Regeneration Group will refurbish and manage 1200 LA homes in Lewisham as Regenter B3
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NewsMears buys Britannia Care for £1.1m
Following its purchase of Careforce for £22m in March, Mears acquires its second care services provider of the year
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NewsInterest rate rises put brakes on house prices
House price growth slows for the second month running reducing annual housing inflation to 10.6%
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NewsHIPs U-turn forces energy assessor out of business
Energy-assessors.com claims two-month HIPs delay will cost group £500,000 in revenue
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NewsExperts offer mixed verdict on planning white paper
Housebuilders, lawyers and agents air caveats about some proposals, while praising other
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FeaturesMasdar: Nice spot for a zero-carbon city...
For his next trick, Norman Foster is going to turn a patch of desert in Abu Dhabi into the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city. Martin Spring finds out how
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NewsKate Barker speaks out on buy-to-let housing crisis
Housing and planning expert tells conference that investors are forcing out first-time buyers
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NewsHousing stats: New-build sales and completions in April 2007
More than 2,000 houses were finished in the South-east but private completions fell compared with last April
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NewsHIP energy assessors wait months for final accreditation
Qualified assessors are still waiting for approval as original HIP start date passes
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NewsThe art of building profit and homes
Private equity bids for housebuilders in the 1990s lead to the break up of perfectly good businesses - hopefully this won't be the case in 2007
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Keepmoat reported to be considering 3i sale
Social housing builder would be valued at over £800m if sold to the private equity group 3i
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NewsTaylor Woodrow shareholders approve Wimpey merger
Proposed £5bn merger now only needs Wimpey sharholder approval as owners of Taylor Woodrow shares approve deal
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NewsRICS: Kelly’s HIPs speech misled parliament
RICS denies Ruth Kelly's claim that it has dropped its judicial review of the HIPs implementation
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NewsGovernment unveils fast-track planning reforms
The government this week provided the construction industry with the practical detail it had been waiting for on planning reform.