Housing – Page 333
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House prices now over £200,000
Price of average house in UK is £201,090 according to latest figures from DCLG
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Cabe reveals worst housing designers
Bellway comes bottom of Cabe's list which judges the quality of housing designs among the top ten housebuilders
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Broadway Malyan to design rest of Greenwich village
Architect has been picked to tackle 1,650 homes in exemplar millennium community
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Blowing in the wind
The Joseph Rowntree Trust’s pioneering development – the pre-fabricated city-centre apartments for single people at affordable rents (CASPAR) housing scheme in Leeds – will be demolished.
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Cabe reveals worst housing designers
Out of Britain’s top 10 volume housebuilders, Bellway Homes is the company with the poorest designed schemes and Berkeley Group is the company with the best, according to an audit by Cabe
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Barratt uses £2.2bn deal to reinvent its brand
Company becomes Britain’s biggest housebuilder after Britain’s biggest housebuilding takeover, and in the process moves upmarket and enters the FTSE 100
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What the Barratt deal means for the sector
Barratt’s purchase of Wilson Bowden enables it to regain the crown of Britain’s biggest housebuilder, which it lost last year to Persimmon.
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Buschow’s Hemel breakthrough
After a long battle, Buschow Henley has succeeded in securing planning permission for 56 affordable and shared ownership flats in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.
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Galliford Try buys Linden Homes for £244.5m
Galliford Try's housing business will operate under Linden Homes banner as takeover propels group into housebuilder top ten
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Cartwright Pickard apartment scheme on site in Reading
The 211-bed apartment Chatham Place scheme will form part of £250m regeneration scheme
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Housebuilders set zero carbon challenge
English Partnerships launches a zero carbon design competition for housebuilders
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Lovell wins £34m Rea Valley rebuild
Housing contractor will build 353 homes to replace defective pre-cast concrete housing in Northfield, Birmingham
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BDP wins masterplan for notorious Belfast jail
Architect BDP will work on plans for former Crumlin Road Gaol which will feature a hotel, housing and sports and education facilities
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Images: I spy an iPod in Dubai
The iPad has myriad hi-tech features including an iRotation Room and iDeckchairs
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Galliford in takeover talks with Linden Homes
Construction and housing firm is understood to be prepared to pay about £200m for Linden Homes
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Barratt to buy Wilson Bowden for £2.2bn
Move will make Barratt remains biggest housebuilder in UK with about 20,000 completions per year
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Bellway and Wren Homes upbeat ahead of interims
Bellway completions up 10% for six months to January 31 while Wrens interims are in line with expectations
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Zero carbon split opens as small housebuilders speak out
NFB chief executive writes to minister talking over ‘shellshock’ at package of proposals
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Planning gain pays for more than half of social housing
Private developers also paid for 46% more affordable development in 2005/06 than in 2003/04
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House starts fall in December – but completions rise
December brought a mixed set of results for housebuilders according to the latest statistics from the National House ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ Council (NHBC).