Radical reversal
The Housing Corporation is considering “cutting out the middle man” and allowing private sector housebuilders to bid directly for social housing grant. Mark Sm…
Rights Off
We are buying a parcel of land for development and our seller has offered to get his site reports readdressed to us. Is that good enough?
Hot Seat
Clive Collisson, managing director of County Homes by Ambrosden Court, sometimes takes to the air Biggles-style to check out progress on site.
Takeovers tune market
Housebuilder’s enhanced survey of “who’s building where” reveals the effects of recent takeovers and suggests an easing off in applications in some areas. Stev…
Nightmare
What keeps housebuilders awake at night? What are the big worries for the industry? Housebuilder surveyed scores of key industry figures to uncover the big iss…
The Investigator
[MMC-IMG=223-A=Right] Bank of England monetary policy committee member and former CBI chief economist Kate Barker is part way through her government-commission…
Stormy summer in Westminster
Will Howie looks back on an unusually lively summer at Westminster for both the government and the housebuilding sector.
[MMC-IMG=208-A=Left] Getting the message across
John Stewart draws some personal lessons from his work on the Barker Review of housing supply
[MMC-IMG=207-A=Left] Land battle mustn’t draw fire from planning fight
The battlelines of the Barker Review era are now being drawn - and the war, as ever, will be over land. Who owns it and what are they planning to do with it?
Land banks are a necessity - Barker
Kate Barker, the Bank of England economist charged with investigating housing undersupply, has accepted the need for housebuilders to hold realistic land banks…
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