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The latest news, features, comment and analysis of the UK housebuilding market covering policy, regulation, planning, technology, new developments and products

The HA multi-tenure model

May 3, 2017 Comment

Richard Jones, partner at Arcadis, argues that the joint venture model is enabling housing associations to successfully tap into housebuilders' skill sets and …

Steve Menary

On the expansion trail

May 3, 2017 Comment

Steve Menary looks at the latest financial figures of the quoted housebuilders and argues that although there are a few red marks, at a broader level the indus…

David O'Leary

The challenge of satisfying a new generation of customers

May 3, 2017 Comment

In the light of the latest results of the industry's Customer Satisfaction Survey, HBF policy director David O'Leary looks at the changing face of customer ser…

Ben Roskrow

Quality v quantity - a balance to be struck

May 3, 2017 Comment

There are in the region of 30,000 words of editorial in this edition of Housebuilder.

Ben Roskrow

An industry under the spotlight

April 6, 2017 Comment

There is a saying in the newspaper and magazine publishing world that readers "come for the news and stay for the features".

Targeting a solution for our "broken housing market"

April 6, 2017 Comment

In advance of its launch of an offsite house, the Keystone Group commercial director Sean Og Coyle explains what actions the firm is taking to meet the challen…

Richard Jones

A targeted immigration approach

April 6, 2017 Comment

The native UK construction workforce is ageing and hundreds of thousands will retire in the next few years. So, as Arcadis partner Richard Jones argues, we wil…

David O'Leary

White Paper signals change in starter homes policy

April 6, 2017 Comment

HBF policy director David O'Leary delves deeper into the Housing White Paper and unearths some important, and possibly overlooked, changes in emphasis on Affor…

Embedding customer focused thinking

Embedding customer focused thinking

March 1, 2017 Comment

Charles Sweeney, chief operating officer at Tamdown, considers customer focus and how vital this is in all areas of our industry

How Help to Buy underpins the market

March 1, 2017 Comment

Richard Jones, partner at Arcadis, looks at the importance of Help to Buy to the private sales market and the continuing shift in emphasis in the strategies of…