Healey serves food for thought at HMI
At the Housing Market Intelligence conference, shadow housing minister John Healey made a couple of big claims about the industry - one on margins, one on corp…
Creating a climate to deliver homes
Another hugely busy period for the industry has seen more policy announcements and the publication of the Housing and Planning Bill. HBF executive chairman Ste…
Home ownership turnaround
The prime minister's commitment to home ownership, and his identification of housing as "one big piece of unfinished business in our economy", puts him in the …
Danger for industry as focus turns on supply
Delivering a significant increase in new homes - given the challenges of the planning system, the skills crisis and the changes to the affordable housing syste…
The importance ofleading with the landscape
Chris Harrop, group marketing director of Marshalls, supplier of hard landscaping, street furniture and water management products, says that putting landscapin…
A sound UK market trumps the China crisis
Despite the China crisis and concerns over impending interest rate rises, housebuilder share prices continue to be robust and are outperforming many other stoc…
HAs will evolve undergovernment "attack"
Housing associations are under attack by the government, says EC Harris head of residential Richard Jones. But this may just prompt a step change in the houseb…
Spotlight on industry intensifies
The upward trajectory in private housebuilding appears to have stalled. This, along with the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, will intensify the spo…
Building for a changing market
The latest New Homes Research from Countrywide, the UK's largest property services group, has found that recent changes to the housing market are beginning to …
Taking a helicopter view of the industry
Green looks at several areas of the industry, but I was particularly taken by his view on the changing profile of new home buyers and the role of the medium si…
