Rate and tax cuts combine to boost market
A combination of factors - including the mortgage war and potential tax cuts - have given the housing market a favourable outlook. Interest rates are falling and lenders - such as Nationwide and Halifax - seem set to bring their rates down further to win
Push for builders to fund flood defences and drains
Builders must fund the provision and maintenance of flood defences and sustainable drainage measures under new draft planning guidance published by the government.
Part M prompts major changes
Three quarters of all housebuilders' standard house types have been redesigned in the light of changes to Building Regulations on disabled access. One in six has been discontinued and just one in ten survived the changes to Part M without alteration.
Tied up in a red tape tangle
Housebuilders have legitimate concerns about the effect on their business of ongoing changes to the Building Regulations. Although the industry accepts that the rules will evolve over the years, there has been a particularly disruptive wave of revisions i
Award winning practices
The best site managers in the UK have now been announced in NHBC's Pride In the Job (PIJ) awards. Adrian Murrell looks at what the Supreme Award winners have done to deserve their victory
Greenfield...
<b>McCarthy bows out</b> Perhaps a sturdy stone building which felt like a church and used suits of armour pegged to the wall as the main form of interior decoration was the right setting to bring down the curtain on one of the most remarkable careers in
Moves and appointments
<b>Richard Hough</b> has been appointed commercial director of Swan Hill Homes. Hough was previously divisional finance director at the firm.
Peter's Principle
Jeremy Gates talks to Peter Owen, chief executive and founder of Grenville Homes, Guildford, who is applying his Berkeley background to his new firm.
What brings firms to the verge of a merge?
The proposed, but ultimately unsuccessful, merger of Beazer and Bryant instigated a wave of corporate activity among housebuilders. Jeremy Gates looks at why the industry is changing and the future implications of merger mania.
It's all in the planning...
<b>DEVELOPMENT OF THE MONTH - Thorley Lane, Bishop's Stortford by Countryside Properties </b>
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