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More mortgage cash from Northern Rock, but will it make a difference?
So Northern Rock is to get back into mortgages. I hear the cheers.The aim will be to get the first time buyer market moving. I hear more cheers.It will start lending on loan to value rates of up to 80% or even 90% - definitely not 100%, because that should ...
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NewsPersimmon: 'No bonuses for 2008'
Housebuilder has revealed that top executives will not get bonuses after targets were not hit
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NewsPersimmon faces revolt over ‘widened’ bonus targets
Housebuilder follows Bellway in making bonuses for senior management easier to achieve
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News£10bn of PFI schemes put on ice amid funding freeze
Council pension funds may plug school funding gap as bank lending to government schemes dries up
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NewsHome repossessions rose 54% last year
Council of Mortage Lenders reveals that 40,000 properties were taken into possession in 2008 and predicts a further 75,000 in 2009
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NewsVinci to cut over 100 jobs after consolidation
Vinci is planning more than 100 redundancies after the merger of its UK contracting operations
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NewsIt’s time we earned to share
Shared ownership has been hailed as one of the ways to kickstart the housing market, but it will never work while mortgages on offer are so uncompetitive
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NewsDelay to £150m forerunner of Titan prison
The selection of the winning bidder for a £150m scheme that is seen as a forerunner to Titan jails has been delayed amid rising frustration over the pace of the prison building programme
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NewsWork in the Middle East? Complete our survey and win a Flip Video
Complete our five-minute survey on living and working in the Middle East and you could win a fanastic Flip Video camera
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NewsAtlantis site 'found'... on Google Earth
Engineer claims to have found layout of mythical lost city using web tool – but Google says it is “sonar data”
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NewsAllies and Morrison wins FCO pavilion competition
Architects beats rivals including Feilden Clegg Bradley and HOK to competition win
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NewsSaint-Gobain and Lafarge plan €1.5bn rights issues
French materials giants both turn to investors for cash boost following sharp downturn in markets
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NewsOlympic park set to lose money until 2025
LDA may need rescue deal on £650m loan as plummeting land values hit regeneration
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Features
Merger mystery: Where have all the deals gone?
Buyers wait for sellers to run out of options – and drop their prices – before re-entering the market
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NewsHealthcare consultant creates web-based design tool
Online Stakeholder Update allows clients to amend project data online
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NewsShower enclosures
Shower enclosure manufacturer, Coram Showers, has re-designed its Optima range of enclosures
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NewsSecondary glazing
Knightstone Housing Association has converted a grade II-listed primary school in Long Ashton on the outskirts of Bristol into five apartments
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NewsZaha’s taps
Triflow Concepts has launched a futuristic-looking tap designed by architect Zaha Hadid
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NewsEC Harris to axe up to 380 as QS bloodbath deepens
Consultant to shed 10% of workforce as Turner & Townsend begins first wave of redundancies