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The stagnant housing market: More a problem of first-time movers than first-time buyers
First-time buyers are increasingly becoming trapped in their first-time homes and unable to move on to homes that better suit their needs.That at least is the implication of some figures that caught my eye recently when I was looking though some data produced by the Council of Mortgage Lenders.Consider this: ...
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Tender of the day: £3m school in Gwent
Tender for extension to Abertillery Comprehensive School closes on 1 December
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Has the housing mini-boom run out of puff?
All the gauges appear to be reading "set fair" in the housing market, so why the long faces among those in the know?The latest RICS housing market survey on the face of it provides every reason to suspect that better times lie ahead. This follows a raft of housing indexes ...
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Government names 10 nuclear sites
Sizewell in Suffolk among the sites nominated for nuclear development in draft documents
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Laing O'Rourke fined over Heathrow death
Contractor pays £150k in fines and legal costs after concrete slab fell and killed one worker and left another with serious injuries
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Kier reports 'strong' order book
Market update reveals first quarter trading in line with expectations and steady flow of education work
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Willmott Dixon instigates major restructure
Company will now have three separate businesses for capital works, regeneration and support services
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Rider Levett Bucknall sets up Caribbean association
Consultant forms networking group of 20 companies to target region where it estimates GDP will grow 1.5% in 2010
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Nightingale Associates team scoops £840m Glasgow hospital
Nightingale/Brookfield consortium beats off competition from Laing O’Rourke/Keppie Architects and Balfour Beatty/BDP Architects
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Go-ahead for Squire and Partners' Mayfair home
Westminster council approves 'striking' design for conservation area in one of London's most exclusive residential districts
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Andorra bridge collapse kills five workers
Workers trapped under debris after 20m section of bridge under construction buckled
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Feilden Clegg Bradley unveils £50m university scheme
Architect clads Leeds Metropolitan University development in steel alloy used on the Angel of the North
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Tender of the day: £13m food production unit in Coventry
Tender for factory, warehouse and office in West Midlands closes on 22 November 2009
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JPA Design & Build vs Sentosa (UK): Setting off damages
Our Fenwick Elliott expert discusses a dispute over the design and construction of a medical centre
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Twitter your way to the top
Rather than banning staff from social networking sites, turn these hugely powerful tools to your business advantage
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Optimism emerges about construction workload, RICS reports
Despite further falls in workload during Q3, outlook for the year ahead has finally turned positive
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Tom Barry: ‘The UAE is coming out of recession as we speak’
Tom Barry is boss of Arabtec, the UAE’s biggest contractor, and he’s been doing the job for 35 years. So who better to ask what’s going to happen next to the Emirates?
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Sellafield decommissioning project faces year’s delay
‘Strategic review’ of £110m scheme raises questions over £20bn new-build programme
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At last we’re getting somewhere
Politicians and business leaders are showing renewed enthusiasm for the Thames Gateway
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Savills: House prices to fall by 7% in 2010
Property group predicts further drop, despite 3.7% rise this year