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Sustainability summit to be held in Manchester in 2005

Sept. 1, 2004

[MMC-IMG=856-A=Right] The government is to hold a major summit on sustainable communities in Manchester next year. The Delivering Sustainable Communities Summ…

key contacts

Sept. 1, 2004

TOP 10

Sept. 1, 2004

The top ten housebuilders build more than a third of the country’s new homes each year. Allison Heller profiles the industry’s ten leading men, at the helm of …

South bound

Sept. 1, 2004

Country && Metropolitan has moved north to get away from premium housing and into low cost homes. The firm is now turning its attention south again to try to b…

See-through service

Sept. 1, 2004

Miller Homes managing director Tim Hough will be telling the Housing Market Intelligence conference that the industry needs freedom of information when it come…

The Top 25 Housebuilders

Sept. 1, 2004

[MMC-IMG=1011-A=Left] Britain’s top 25 housebuilders between them build more than 94,000 homes a year and more than 60% of all private new homes. Almost 70% of…

Quicker to say “no”

Sept. 1, 2004

Research carried out for this year’s Housing Market Intelligence report shows that, although planning decisions are being made quicker, it is taking just as lo…

Innovate to accumulate

Sept. 1, 2004

George Wimpey boss Peter Johnson will be giving “the chief executive’s view” to the Housing Market Intelligence conference next week. Here he gives Steve Menar…

Fortunes fluctuate

Sept. 1, 2004

Brian Green looks at market conditions, the regions and the performance of the top housebuilders and explains why despite unpredictable market fluctuations dur…

Ben Roskrow

Sept. 1, 2004

[MMC-IMG=1004-A=Left] WELCOME to the second annual edition of Britain’s biggest housebuilders, our yearly look at the industry’s biggest players.