Housing – Page 299
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Taylor Wimpey to close 13 offices
Contractor feels the effects of housing downturn as it prepares to shed 600 jobs
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RICS warns of 40% fall in house sales
Transaction volumes to slump as house prices drop 7% over this year and the next, but 90s property crash will not recur
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First Direct puts mortgages back on the market
Bank that sparked market alarm by closing doors on borrowers is ready to lend to new home loan customers again
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UAE unveils ambitious masterplan for Abu Dhabi - images
Plans for emirate will see population triple to 3m over next 22 years
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Anti-Hips Tory funded by property firms
Shadow housing minister Grant Shapps admits taking donations from estate agent and four other firms connected with property industry
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Chairman resigns at Leadbitter's Dutch parent
Guus Hoefsloot steps down after housing slump and rising costs hits Heijmans' profit
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Kier housing reservations fall 35%
Construction division performed strongly but group says housing market will determine whether profit expectations are met
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Housing starts fall by a quarter
Government reveals sharp decline in housing starts over last three months compared to last year
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Chalcot estate: Altered towers
The refurbishment of a sixties north London estate could serve as a template as attention turns to cutting CO2 emissions from existing housing. Stephen Kennett reports
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Planning review: Teaching tortoise to gallop
The latest planning review aims to ‘weed out bureaucratic hurdles’. Jon Neale asked senior figures at every stage of the planning process to tell us exactly what is going wrong
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Eco-town faces challenge from Leicestershire council
Tory-led authority considers launching judicial review of government’s shortlisting process
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‘Near’ zero-carbon house planned
Housebuilder Stewart Milne and Oxford Brookes University will carry out a full post-occupancy evaluation of its prototype house
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80% of housing sites can’t meet zero carbon
Four out of five new housing sites will not be able to generate enough power on site to reach the government’s zero-carbon target, according to government advisers, writes Joey Gardiner.
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Beware the backlash
Some developers have done well out of the planning policy on brownfield sites. But suddenly that policy is changing once again and those same developers won’t always be backed by the government, says David Lock
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When is zero carbon not zero carbon?
A sustainable energy consultant questions the shifting definitions of the eco friendly home
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George Grace: Why we should look to the US to fund our infrastructure
Our next American import should be a tax system that pays for regeneration
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Oakdene boss stays bullish
Carl Turpin, chief executive of Oakdene Homes, has denied that the company was forced into a £9.75m share placement by the state of the market, writes Tom Bill.
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Bill Dunster: 'On-site renewables can deliver zero carbon homes'
Green architect criticises the UK Green ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓs Council for questioning whether microgeneration is viable on all new homes
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Kier to regroup and launch £250m social housing drive
Chief executive John Dodds to rebalance housing division in response to ‘worst market for 30 years’
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More homes for East of England
The East of England plan approved by government this week will increase the number of homes in the region to 508,000 by 2021.