Housing – Page 243
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New home registration hits highest level since July 2008
The number of planned new homes has hit its highest level for nearly a year, new figures show
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Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in May 2009
May’s total registrations were up 9% on the previous month, but sales were down from May last year
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Telford Homes buys Clifford Contracting
East London housebuilder makes acquisition for £6.3m to improve cash flow
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Repossession forecast downgraded by 15%
Trade association ups optimism as interest rate cuts make morgage payments more affordable
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2012 affordable housing plans confirmed
ODA signs off £269m agreement with Triathlon Homes to turn athletes' village into low-cost homes
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Home vendors cut asking prices again
Downward trend returns in June after five months of rises, says Rightmove
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Plans to improve existing stock dropped from Part L proposals
Plan to make energy efficiency improvements compulsory when extending homes has been scrapped
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Taylor Wimpey expects to start new work in autumn
Housebuilder is looking for land-buying opportunities, as it expects to see an increase in price of homes in second half of year
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Rental fund plan could grow after £1bn investor interest
Unprecedented number of bids from investors means homes agency may start up to four initiatives
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Association takeover
Presentation Housing Association has been taken over by Notting Hill Housing Group
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Call to regenerate
Housing charity Shelter has called for the housing market renewal pathfinder scheme, to regenerate unpopular areas of the North and Midlands, to get funding beyond 2011.
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£3.5m Aylesbury win
Morgan Ashurst has won a £3.5m contract to build a conference centre and council building for Aylesbury Vale council
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Repairs matter most
A survey by the Tenant Service Authority has found 81% of social housing tenants think repairs are the most important thing for a landlord to get right
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Bottom of the market
House prices are likely to bottom out at the start of 2010, a property consultant has said
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Dogged determination: Green light for Barking Riverside
The first 3,300 homes at the Barking Riverside site in east London have finally been approved by the Thames Gateway Development Corporation and Barking and Dagenham council
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When the going gets tough
Rather than relaxing rules to bail out ailing schemes, now is the time to introduce clear design standards, so their cost is factored in when the market recovers
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Planning applications in May 2009
The number of projects at detailed planning stage dropped and Heron topped the clients’ chart
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It's housebuilding, but not as we know it: how the industry will be changed by the crash
After the blind panic of 2008 and the restrained optimism of 2009, housebuilders have begun to think about the way forward
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Government to extend planning permission length to six years
John Healey uses first speech as housing minister to announce three-year extension to planning consent duration
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HCA to focus on funds for green existing stock
Housing Finance Group will aim to secure private finance to retrofit UK housing