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Housing stats: New build sales and completions in September
Last month was every bit as bad as housebuilders feared, with sales 28% down on previous the year
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NewsCapita Symonds raises profits by 30% on lower turnover
Capita Symonds Ltd posted a sharp increase in profits in 2009 despite a slight decline in turnover.
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O’Rourke changes top team
Laing O’Rourke has undertaken a global shake-up of its top executive team
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Aecom poised to appoint new chief of European business
Aecom is in the final stages of appointing a chief executive of its European business to sit above UK and Ireland managing director Bill Hanway
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FeaturesThe quangos and spending cuts: which ones survived
In the game of quangos players take turns to choose non-government bodies to close, merge or privatise. But watch out! If you get it wrong you might not get elected again. This is how Francis Maude dealt with the ones dealing with construction
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NewsBerkeley to launch second private rental fund
Pidgley says 300 home fund to bid for new high-rent social housing cash
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FeaturesThe man-made mountain: Copenhagen's 8 house
Thomas Lane reports on the Copenhagen apartment block that has turned the suburban experience into something wild. Photos by Jens Linhe
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CommentRead our online Spending Review debate
Readers put their questions to the industry experts debating the implications of the governement’s Spending Review
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NewsOsborne’s axe fells schools and housing
Education capital funding to fall 60% and housing 70% as chancellor takes hatchet to public sector
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NewsTFL funding shrinks 28%
Highways agency funding falls by a third as Department of Transport reveals details of its budget cuts
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FeaturesLead times: July-September 2010
The reported increase in enquiries failed to convert to orders, and lead times are overwhelmingly stable this quarter. The next six months look quieter still. Brian Moone of Mace reports
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CommentRonson, Pidgley and Kerslake anticipate 5 years of housing gloom
Predictions from panelists at Movers & Shakers breakfast are as cold as the weather following yesterday's CSR
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CommentAt least Crossrail is going ahead (slowly)
The London rail link will arrive three years late, and there’s a steep decline in health capital spending.
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CommentIs the CSR the first step to dismantling social housing?
We know funding for housing has been savaged, but how will the money that is available be allocated and what direct effect that will it have on the number of homes built?
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NewsSo what’s left after all the cuts?
All sectors suffer but housing and regeneration fare worst with cuts of 75%
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NewsHomes built reaches record low
Government figures show number of new homes built is down 23% on the previous year
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CommentRICS on the Spending Review
RICS director of external affairs comments on the controversial government announcement
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NewsCompany fined after worker killed on M4
HSE prosecutes traffic management company after worker was killed collecting cones on motorway
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NewsScottish construction grew 10% in second quarter
Surge in growth helps Scotland post higher GDP figures than the rest of the UK
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NewsGovernment accused of green stealth tax
Changes to the Carbon Reduction Commitment energy efficiency scheme will cost businesses £3.5bn