October 2025

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Housebuilder October 2025 front cover

In this issue

The Interview – Wain Group

Jim Wood, Wain Group’s md since April 2024, talks to Suzie Mayes about growth, combining the best parts of plc and private housebuilding and being a sales business

Housing Market Intelligence 2025

The Housing Market Intelligence Report will be launched at this year’s Housing Market Intelligence Conference in London on October 8. HMI report editor Brian Green gives a taste of the findings of the report and reveals this year’s Top 25 housebuilders

Comment

Angela Rayner is out, Steve Reed is in. But what does this mean for the housebuilding industry, asks Ben Roskrow

Home Builders Federation

Laura Markus, HBF’s policy and external affairs manager, looks at the issues of wastewater capacity which are stalling the delivery of almost 30,000 homes and must urgently be resolved

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The Housebuilder Awards 2025

The industry celebrated the winners, highly commended companies and finalists of this year’s Housebuilder Awards in November. Housebuilder recaps the night

The year ahead

The sector enters 2026 with a still-supportive government but the industry needs it to do more. Suzie Mayes asks our commentators for their hopes, predictions and views as we look to the next 12 months

The Interview – Trudie McCormick, Keepmoat Homes

Trudie McCormick, Keepmoat Homes’ group technical director since 2015, talks to Suzie Mayes about her love of innovation, the Future Homes Standard and other technical matters on the horizon and ongoing

HBF Viewpoint

The government may have thought twice about landfill tax changes, says Emma Ramell, HBF’s director of external affairs, but it must take more risks and listen to what else the sector needs