Housing – Page 255
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Beckett unveils £200m mortgage rescue scheme
Housing associations to buy up homes of struggling mortgage-payers in 80 local authority areas
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HCA will fund land purchase to kickstart housebuilding
Homes agency offers 50% of land buying costs to housing associations that promise to build more
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Residents sue over collapse at prize-winning Bristol flats
Hearing set for next month after balconies cave in at luxury Feilden Clegg Bradley scheme
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Cubans in Castleford
Designs for a “conceptual” cultural centre for a West Yorkshire town have gone on show as part of its regeneration plans
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Planning applications: December 2008
Residential schemes at planning stage hold steady and some very big projects are in the pipeline
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Brandon Street: Beautifying the beast
Southwark council in south London has given the green light to London & Quadrant’s plans to build new homes for Heygate estate residents in Elephant and Castle
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Lambeth blocks Make's Albert Embankment skyscraper
Council planning decision rules that 23-storey building would block light to nearby buildings
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House prices to fall 11% this year
Total fall from 2007 peak of market to 2011 will be 30%, forecasts poll of analysts
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Barratt cuts net debt by £230m
But trading update reveals completions down one-quarter in second half of 2008
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Redrow warns full-year margins will be down
But housebuilder says cost cutting has brought down net debt to £270m at half-year point
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Self-build 'could save 50,000 construction jobs'
Report claims government intervention could double self-build in a year
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Apollo wins £22.5m social housing repair deal
Five-year contract covers all refurbishment and maintenance in William Sutton Homes' South and Central regions
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House sales plummet despite rising enquiries
Buyer interest rises on the back of low interest rates and prices but sales fail to lift
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Taylor Wimpey rules out debt-for-equity deal
Chief executive dismisses reports that lenders will take a slice of the company as he warns of further writedowns
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Taylor Wimpey sources dismiss deal fears
Ahead of tomorrow's trading update sources say bank's credit committees 'very unlikely' to scupper deal
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Galliford Try heads for housing top five
Chief exec says downturn will propel firm into top tier of housebuilders, as 500 staff put onto four-day week
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HBOS may merge social housing groups to sell as single entity
Private equity groups circle Keepmoat and Apollo as bank seeks to reduce property market exposure
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Bovis Homes job cuts rise to 60% of workforce
New round of job cuts announced to counter fall in sales and sliding house prices
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Homes agency eases funding logjam
A six-month funding logjam for English Partnerships’ schemes appears to be easing since the creation of the Homes and Communities Agency in December