Housing – Page 301
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NewsBaby, it’s cold outside
There’s a chill wind blowing through the North-west as demand for city-centre apartments plummets – with knock-on effects on land values. David Blackman looks at how the industry is responding and where best to keep warm
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Buy-to-let ‘has added £14,000 to average house price’
House prices have been inflated by buy-to-let investors, according to a report by the government’s housing affordability advisers.
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NewsPlanning applications: January 2008
Applications hold steady in the South-east and rise sharply in the Midlands, North and South-west
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NewsKier signs £400m contract with Stoke-on-Trent
Construction firm and city council form joint venture company to maintain 20,000 council houses
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NewsHousing new builds hit 30-year high in London
Latest figures show 33,000 new homes including 12,000 affordable homes were built in capital last year
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NewsHousing superagency sets up London board
Sub committee chaired by London mayor will help speed up capital’s £3bn housebuilding programme
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NewsBerkeley Homes in court battle over £200m London scheme
Southwark council accuses developer of carrying out illegal work at £200m housing scheme near Tower Bridge
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NewsTower Hamlets residential tower gets green light
Council gives planning approval for a 44-floor block, the latest part of Ballymore's Providence Wharf development
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NewsOMA reveals design for 'vertical village' in Singapore
Office of Metropolitan Architecture has designed 1000 apartments for the 8ha site
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NewsEncouraging cannabis use
Sustainability Our Housing Expert section kicks off with a look at how a Suffolk housing association has built a super-efficient development out of hemp and lime.
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Connaught wins £370m in social housing contracts
Property management firm starts year with strong order intake from social housing sector
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NewsGladedale joins victims of credit crunch with closures
£660m-turnover housebuilder to shut two offices in attempt to reduce overheads
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Green code ‘raises carbon’
Developers highlight electric heating loophole in Code for Sustainable Homes
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NewsSales of new homes drop 15% in a year
Sales of new homes in the last three months of 2007 were 15% lower than they were during the same period in 2006.
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NewsGrandstand views
Architect Stock Woolstencroft has been given the green light for six mixed-use buildings rising up to 43 storeys at the main entrance to the Olympic park.
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Banks fear housebuilders ‘telling fibs’ about prices
Banks have called in housebuilders for urgent talks over claims that they are not telling the truth about the price of properties.
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NewsHousing stats: New-build sales and completions in December 2007
Those December figures in full … the slump in the private sector is offset slightly by social housing
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NewsWork starts on Santa Giulia
Work is set to begin on the first stage of the Fosters + Partners masterplan in Santa Giulia on the outskirts of Milan.
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NewsBarratt gets green light for Canada Water scheme
Southwark council approves plans for 63 homes in east London development
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NewsMore housebuilders cut payment to subbies
Nicholas King and Persimmon have become the latest housebuilders to cut payments to their supply chain