All Housing articles – Page 257
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First-time buyer fund
Mill Group has launched a £500m investor fund to allow first-time buyers to get on the housing ladder
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Space to breathe
Instead of telling housebuilders what to build, we should focus on providing better information to buyers
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BRE to launch environmental standard for refurbishments
BRE is to develop a measurable standard for retrofitting homes to high environmental standards
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Delivery in doubt as HCA land assets drop by £1.1bn
Homes and Communities Agency scales back development as proceeds from land sales plummet
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Response times set for repairs to social housing
Government's proposed service standards agreed between tenants and landlords will affect maintenance contractors
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House prices rise as demand outstrips supply
Surveyors experience strongest growth in London as buyers return to the market
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Go-ahead for Squire and Partners' Mayfair home
Westminster council approves 'striking' design for conservation area in one of London's most exclusive residential districts
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Galliford Try reports improved sales and income
In interim statement that coincides with annual general meeting today, company says sales rose 7% to £274m
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CPA chair: We haven't got the balance yet with mortgages
Adrian Barden says there is danger of 'pendulum swinging too far the other way' from irresponsible lending
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Savills: House prices to fall by 7% in 2010
Property group predicts further drop, despite 3.7% rise this year
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This train isn’t stopping
In the week of the Thames Gateway Forum, HCA director David Edwards says people shouldn’t lose faith in the mammoth project
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First wave of Kickstart programme gets funding go-ahead
The Homes and Communities Agency this week approved funding for 91 housing developments under the first wave of the government’s £925m Kickstart programme, announced in July
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Tories pledge to simplify Gateway delivery
The Tory party would audit the £9bn Thames Gateway programme to make sure it “delivered and delivered well”, Stewart Jackson, the shadow regeneration minister, said yesterday
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Cost model update: Small projects
Max Wilkes of Davis Langdon revisits affordable homes, extra-care homes and nursing homes to find out what effect changes in regulations and tender price deflation have had on the sums
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Data planning applications in October
Developer Commercial Estates Group tops the clients list, while Barratt continues to look busy
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Mothballed £700m Deptford housing scheme on track
Plans for the £700m 3,500-home Convoys Wharf scheme in Deptford, south-east London, which floundered during the downturn, are back on track, as its new developer prepares to submit revised plans this month
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Aviva commits £500m to HCA homes-for-rent scheme
Insurer agrees to bankroll initiative despite growing concern from other investors
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Taylor Wimpey: price of new home has risen 10%
The average sale price of a new home has increased by almost 10% in the past six months, according to the latest market update by housebuilder Taylor Wimpey, in an indication of the strength of the upturn in the housing market
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Regeneration firm plans to double staff
North-east-based Frank Haslam Milan will increase workforce by 200 over next two years