Bank of England draws up plans to ease interbank lending freeze
Following the prime minister’s meeting with major banking chiefs earlier this week, the Bank of England is now reported to be drawing up a plan to ease the cre…
Homes and Communities Agency will have local focus
Chief executive-designate of the future Homes and Communities Agency, Sir Bob Kerslake, has set out his plans to ensure the agency will have a strong local foc…
Firms missing out on £2 million in apprenticeship support - ConstructionSkills
New research from ConstructionSkills has found that construction firms in England are missing out on up to £2 million in financial support by not taking on eno…
CB Richard Ellis flags \"build-to-let\" opportunity to get market moving
In its latest report on the housing market for the first quarter of the year, CB Richard Ellis has forecast a 4% drop in house prices during 2008, stating that…
Lenders urge Brown to intervene to ease financial crisis
Prime minister Gordon Brown met with a group of mortgage lenders at Downing Street yesterday, to explore possible routes to ease the credit squeeze.
HBF amends code of conduct to improve transparency
In a bid to improve transparency in new property valuations, the HBF has announced an amendment to its voluntary code of conduct for members.
Taylor Wimpey\'s UK homes chief Ian Sutcliffe resigns
Ian Sutcliffe, the UK housing division chief executive of the Taylor Wimpey group, has resigned to take up a new role as UK property manager of SEGRO. Group ch…
RICS survey shows worst sentiment since records began
The latest housing market survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) shows the balance of agents reporting a fall in house prices in March…
Self certification could aid housebuilding – HBF
Self certification within building regulations could be a way of reaching the government’s target of 240,000 homes a year by 2016, David Mitchell from the HBF …
Rate cut welcome but not enough says industry
The MPC’s interest rate cut is welcome but the measure is not enough to ease housing market pressures, industry has argued.
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