All articles by Michael Willoughby – Page 7
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Bovis Homes raises £60m cash for land with share issue
Housebuilder's share placement opening today provided funds to buy development land
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Galliford Try wins £48.6m of health-sector work
Contractor to build or refurbish healthcare centres and hospitals in Grampian, Newcastle and Liverpool
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House prices rise for first time in two years, says Hometrack
Survey reveals 0.1% increase in August despite 6.7% year-on-year fall
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Shadow minister calls on Tory councils to delay developments
Caroline Spelman tells colleagues her party would introduce a new housing bill and revoke regional targets
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Number of active sites plummets to new low
Home Builders Federation survey reveals 18% drop since last year, despite rise in homes sales
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Housing starts up 63%
Figure is still 9% lower than same time last year and 39% below 2006 peak
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Carillion JV set to win £1bn BT contract
Carillion-Telent deal with BT Openreach is set to be signed in the next two months
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Corby council to appeal birth defect judgment
Legal team claims 'serious and significant flaws' in court decision that reclamation works could have led to birth defects
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Urban regeneration firm faces closure
Council funding for RegenCo, the company behind Will Alsop's Public space, has been withdrawn
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Government insists eco-towns work with locals
Developers of first wave of eco-towns told to have closer ties with existing communities
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Network Rail to pump £1bn into Scottish rail programme
Operator to fund improvements on the Edinburgh to Glasgow line, cutting journey time to 35 minutes
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Buy-to-let loan advances down 70%
Figures mark seventh successive quarter of decline in sector
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Government faces High Court over regulation u-turn
Energy body threatens legal action over axing of ‘consequential improvements’ from Part L consultation
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Housing minister kickstarts ailing local homes initiative
John Healey wants Local Housing Company pilot scheme in Barking to be built by the end of the year
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Housing associations write off £174m
Falling land and house prices mean 40% more is knocked off associations' assets than last year
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Local councils have lost nearly £2.7bn in crash
Survey by Local Government Association reveals low interest rates on cash deposits have hit council income hard
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Ten framework partners sought for £300m of Tube civils work
Transport for London puts work on seven London Underground lines out to tender
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Bartlett and Cambridge double-nominated for research award
RIBA's President's Award for Research shortlist names 12 pieces of work that contribute to architectural knowledge
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Refurbishment funding: A long way from home
Assessing the once mighty £21bn Decent Homes programme’s past achievements, and its increasingly uncertain future
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Housebuilders could be spared zero-carbon costs
UK-GBC proposal would see government-funded improvements repaid monthly by homeowners