Housing – Page 265
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Credit crunch leaves £250m Burnley scheme in lurch
Scheme that includes Tony Wilson ‘fashion tower’ on hold after developer runs into financial difficulty
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Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in September 2008
While private starts are at just one-third of their 2007 figure, public housing is relatively stable
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CPA raises doubts over government’s 2009 spending pledge
Industry experts have called on the government to provide clearer details of its pledge to bring forward public spending on construction projects to combat the recession, amid fears that is recycling old commitments.
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Government urged to abandon greenfield eco-towns
Sustainable communities development should be shifted towards extensions of existing conurbations
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One we made earlier
Modular contractor Spaceover has developed the UK’s first prefabricated two-storey family homes at its £10m Newhall development in Harlow, Essex.
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Pay plummets for Barratt bosses after difficult year
Barratt bosses have waived their performance bonuses in 2008 after a tough 12 months for the housebuilder.
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The suburban carbon slashers
It looks like a thirties terrace but it's leading the way in getting rid of almost all carbon emissions
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Low cost eco-housing on show at Interbuild
Birmingham exhibition to showcase offsite affordable housing which costs £60,000 per unit as well as timber-framed Code Level 5 house
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Housing associations primed to bail out troubled landlords
Tenant Services Authority makes list of take over partners for bankrupt associations
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Northern exposure
Sarah Webb of the Chartered Institute of Housing tells us what the UK and Canadian housing sectors could learn from eachother
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Government housing measures hurt market
Housebuilders say small government initiatives make buyers delay purchase
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Bloor sells excess units to housing association
First housebuilder takes up government offer to part-fund transfer of unsold homes to public sector
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How the credit crunch is hitting private tenants
The housing slump could see more private tenants lose their homes and unscuplulous landlords move into the market. But our columnist says greater regulation could be an unexpected boon for institutional investors
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Board members for new housing agencies announced
16 board members of Homes and Communities Agency and Tenant Services Authority named
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Mortgage lending falls 42% since last year
Council of Mortgage Lenders says gross lending declined to £17.7bn in September, the lowest figure since January 2005
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Barratt to raise £200m in land sell-off
Reports that troubled housebuilder is looking at 4,400ha fire sale
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The land that took the bite out of the credit crunch
The head of Canada's affordable housing lobby group tells us why the country has escaped the worst of the housing downturn and about a pot of gold which could solve the country's housing repair problems
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Council creates grand designs to inspire locals
Bradford council renovates two homes and teaches residents how to improve their own
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Will buyer loans help housebuilders?
Housebuilders and lenders tell us what they think of the government's loan scheme to help first time buyers
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Housing agency chair hits out at government inaction
The government must help housebuilding now by buying up development land, says Robert Napier