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Sharewatch - Let gloom be unconfined
As Tony Pidgley predicted last week, housebuilding shares have “bumped along at the bottom” over the past seven days. And who would doubt the clairvoyant powers of the Berkeley boss?
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Meeting homes targets will not solve affordability problems
The government’s own advisers have warned that even if it meets its increasingly ambitious target of building 2 million homes by 2016, housing affordability will continue to worsen.
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NewsStoring up trouble for the future
Kevin Williamson on the long-term prospects for the UK housing market
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NewsGood health!
The industry celebrated its excellent record in workplace wellbeing and looked to building on it in the future at the 2008 Health and Safety Awards
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NewsZenith music hall, Strasbourg: Light entertainment
The £38m Zenith music hall in Strasbourg has been completed.
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Lenders hit new housing hard
UK mortgage lenders are penalising buyers of new-build housing by offering much poorer terms than for second-house houses.
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Gleeson will make loss
MJ Gleeson has warned it will incur a material pre-tax loss for the full year owing to a likely shortfall of income from house and land sales.
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NewsDublin's docklands: A public display
A public consultation has been launched into the €4.5bn (£3.55bn) regeneration of Dublin’s docklands.
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Rebuilding Trust campaign to be presented to the OFT
A list of 70 companies that have pledged support for Building’s Rebuilding Trust campaign in the nine weeks since the Office of Fair Trading’s statement of objection was published will be presented to the body on Monday.
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20 years after Canary Wharf, Cesar Pelli returns to Docklands
Cesar Pelli is to design a tower in London’s Docklands 20 years after his landmark building at Canary Wharf broke ground.
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Boris’ pledge on house sizes
Boris Johnson has announced he will make Parker Morris space standards compulsory under the terms of the new London Plan.
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Hill International to help speed up the construction process
Consultant working with CIOB on time-management advice to address plague of late completions
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NewsTall order
The UK’s tallest piece of freestanding public art, designed by Make Architects, was completed this week at Nottingham university.
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Project teams to help building users
An initiative that could cut energy use in new buildings by up to three times is being launched in the House of Commons on Monday.
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Erinaceous ‘overpaid’ on Medway contract
Failed property consultant Erinaceous was systematically overpaid for work carried out on a four-year housing maintenance contract in Kent, an investigation into alleged fraud has found.
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NewsPower play
Rafael Viñoly’s plans for Battersea Power Station created a stir when they were launched this week.
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NewsShapely pleasure domes
Tonkin Liu (above) and Foster + Partners (right) were two of the architects whose designs helped brighten up the first weekend of the London Festival of Architecture.