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Could the door be open for councils to build again?
Communities Minister Don Foster told Parliament that his department is ‘looking’ at lifting the borrowing cap currently holding back council house building. Details will…
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Businesses complain about housing shortages to enable recruitment
Rising rents and house prices are stifling local businesses and making it difficult for them to recruit staff, according to a new poll of…
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Top 50 developing landlords
With social landlords playing an increasingly important role in supplying the UK’s homes, Inside Housing has assembled a list of the top 50 developments completed in…
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Place shapers report on building new homes
Mark Prisk said housing markets had become ‘increasingly dysfunctional’ while launching a report recommending how to build more homes locally yesterday. PlaceShapers-Build-Local-report The housing…
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Section 106 changes becomes law
Plans to allow developers to renegotiate their affordable housing obligations if they believe these are making schemes unviable have become law. The Growth and…
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Retirement Housing and equity release
Housing associations should consider endorsing specific equity release products as a funding option for retirement housing, a think tank has said. A paper published…
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Report calls for more new bungalows
A thinktank has called for an increase in the number of bungalows being built to allow older people to downsize and free up larger…
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Report raises concern about help to by scheme
Set against the backdrop of yet another UK ratings downgrade and the IMF’s recent criticism of George Osborne’s austerity programme, the Chancellor faced a fresh attack this week…
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Housing Market Package from the budget
The Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced in his 2013 Budget Statementyesterday a raft of measures to stimulate the housing market. Help to…
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Right to Build – think tank report
Councils that fail to hit their housing targets should have to release land to local people who want to design their own homes, a…
