All housebuilding articles
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Features
The 1.5 million-home question: Does the government鈥檚 planning reform programme add up?
Ministers unleashed a barrage of planning reforms in the dying days of 2024. Joey Gardiner asks if these can聽give the industry the boost it needs to get anywhere close to the government鈥檚 ambitious housebuilding target?
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Comment
How can we make Henry Ford-style housebuilding work?
Nick Pinder, Mariya Rankin and Magdalena Prus explore the contractual and regulatory implications of a cookie-cutter approach to housebuilding
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Comment
It鈥檒l take 10 years to solve the housing crisis 鈥 but here鈥檚 how we might do it
The UK housing crisis is so entrenched that it needs to be put onto a war footing and fought through a cross-party accord, says Jackie Sadek
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Avant Homes appoints new land director from Persimmon
Carl Oxley joins Nottingham-based Avant Homes East Midlands in move to strengthen senior management team
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A vision for 150,000 homes but no water to supply them. Does Gove鈥檚 Cambridge plan stand a chance?
The housing secretary wants to build nearly three times as many homes as the target set by Cambridge鈥檚 own planners. Is there something he knows that they don鈥檛? Daniel Gayne reports
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Industry reaction to the CMA鈥檚 housebuilding report
What major industry players and analysts think of the competition regulator鈥檚 report into the industry
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Features
Key points from the CMA鈥檚 housebuilding report
From land banking to a probe into anti-competitive activity, we breakdown the critical points from the UK competition regulator鈥檚 report into the housebuilding market
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More than half of the largest contractors and housebuilders report drop in pre-tax margin
Exclusive data published tomorrow illustrates industry鈥檚 financial squeeze
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Comment
Deliberate landbanking by housebuilders is a myth
The suggestion that housebuilders deliberately landbank is, to put it bluntly, poppycock, writes John Wallace
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Industry broadly welcomes Starmer鈥檚 housebuilding plan
Labour鈥檚 plan to reform planning and build new towns draws positive response
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New-build construction output falls to lowest level since June 2022
Official figures for May show 0.4% drop driven by private housing decline
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Features
Sandbach saga: meet the housebuilder standing up to Michael Gove
In the latest example of the housing secretary intervening in planning on design grounds, we talk to Colin Muller of Muller Property Group, about the Sandbach development in Cheshire East which has been called in
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Volume housebuilders sign building safety contract
First signatures come amid controversy over Gove threats to ban laggards despite delays in sending out contracts
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Housebuilding contracts as industry growth continues to be blunted by inflation woes
Consumer worries and rising prices blamed for housing鈥檚 problems
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Comment
How to drop a manifesto pledge without blinking
By downgrading the target of 300,000 new homes to a mere 鈥渁mbition鈥, Michael Gove leaves big questions about housing supply unanswered
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Features
In Business: Hill Group鈥檚 Andy Hill
Founder and chief executive of the UK鈥檚 third-biggest privately owned developer on why he aims to focus on value and quality, rather than making money
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Galliford Try and Bovis complete 拢1.1bn deal
Bovis Homes is buying Galliford Try鈥檚 housebuilding operation
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MJ Gleeson boss leaves after bust-up over pay
Jolyon Harrison earned 拢2.9m in 2018 but could not agree a future pay package
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Telford Homes shares recover after warning job delays will hit profits
Housebuilder鈥檚 shares slide after it says hold-ups will slow down completion of key schemes聽