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The latest news, features, comment and analysis of the UK housebuilding market covering policy, regulation, planning, technology, new developments and products

Simplification through collaboration

Oct. 1, 2007

Duncan Salmon and Peter Stockdale (pictured) of Campbell Hooper examine the need for a more transparent and flexible approach to public private partnerships

Club culture

Oct. 1, 2007

Gavin Davidson, property director at ThePropertyInvestmentMarket.com looks at the ongoing reciprocal relationship between housebuilders and buy-to-let investors

Design brief - Placemaking approach

Oct. 1, 2007

Savills’ head of residential research Yolande Barnes explains the property value-enhancing benefits of “sustainable urbanism” and why it requires a cultural sh…

News analysis

Oct. 1, 2007

Mark Smulian looks into the government’s newly announced housing and planning delivery grant and finds that behind the £500 million headlines, the details are …

Lioncourt raises £12m for land buying

Oct. 1, 2007

Lioncourt is embarking on a land buying spree having obtained further institutional backing, while Stewart Milne’s growth plans are gathering pace

Unlock the Land campaign

Oct. 1, 2007

Three months on, Housebuilder’s Unlock the Land campaign is gathering momentum as the industry calls for government to recognise the need to ease up the supply…

Effect of credit crunch on market yet to manifest - RICS

Sept. 28, 2007

Commenting on the latest Nationwide house price index, which shows prices continuing to rise, albeit slowly, RICS senior economist Oliver Gilmartin said it was…

Association urges government to roll out HIPs for remaining stock

Sept. 27, 2007

The Association of Home Information Pack Providers (AHIPP) has urged the government to complete the roll-out of HIPs for remaining housing stock. HIPs are curr…

Softer market will buoy buy-to-let sector - Paragon

Sept. 27, 2007

Paragon Mortgages has claimed that the credit squeeze and softening housing market will in fact buoy the buy-to-let sector, as more people hold off from buying…