Britain’s housing market continues to flip the recession script with average asking prices hitting record high in spite of the ongoing coronavirus restrictions and the economic uncertainties. Tiger Craft, Partner and CIO at Hilltop Credit Partners, says [read more…]
In February 2020, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Robert Jenrick, announced the Government’s First Homes scheme. The scheme will see thousands of new houses being built across the UK, aimed to [read more…]
Housebuilders have defended proposed planning changes allowing up to 40 to 50 homes to be built before an ‘affordable homes’ quota kicks in. Last week the Local Government Association criticised the government for the proposals, [read more…]
One of the UK’s leading build-to-rent developers has today (Thursday 8th October) unveiled the first phase of properties to be released for let to the public, at its new £14m housing development in the North-East. [read more…]
Building works on a new housing development in Carterton, by property developer Taggart Homes, are progressing on track, with the show home set to open to the public in October. Located in the sought-after town [read more…]
The number of new build homes started or completed in England between April and June 2020 fell to their lowest levels since the year 2000 as Covid-19 hit the construction industry, according to new figures published today. [read more…]
House builders north of the border are calling on the Scottish government to step up new builds to 25,000 a year and to include more private homes. Homes for Scotland, HfS, the country’s housebuilding trade body, [read more…]
Following the successful regeneration of phases one and two of the King Square Estate, Islington Council has awarded Higgins the contract to redevelop the Telfer House site in Lever Street, Clerkenwell, Islington. The contract will [read more…]
The London studio of global design practice Perkins and Will has won an internal firmwide competition to design a co-living community concept that responds to the housing crisis affecting major cities worldwide. The annual Phil [read more…]
Over 2m over-55s live in poor-quality housing that puts their health and wellbeing at risk, according to new research by the Centre for Ageing Better and Ipsos MORI. The report, The impact of Covid-19 on [read more…]
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