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RTPI brands new housing unit\'s supply crisis summation \"too simple\"

New RTPI has rejected calls by the new government-backed thinktank, the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit (NHPAU), for more land to be released for hou…

Housing market driving growing wealth gap, claims new thinktank

The National Housing and Planning Advice Unit (NHPAU), a government-backed thinktank, has today stolen national press headlines with a stark forecast that by 2…

MPC holds interest rates at 5.5%

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee has today voted to maintain the base interest rate at 5.5%. This will comfort housebuilders, who are concerned …

Spicerhaart calls for HIPs to be scrapped

Spicerhaart has called for home information packs (HIPs) to be scrapped after it has been forced to disband its HIPs provision department, HIPs.co.uk, followin…

Private housebuilding stagnates in first quarter

Private sector housebuilding levels are stagnating, according to NHBC’s latest quarterly statistics for February to April 2007.

Existing private sector homes\' energy efficiency lag

The nation’s existing private sector homes are less energy efficient than the social housing stock, according to latest statistics from the department for Comm…

OFT investigation imminent

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