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 spotlight on the industry and may force the government to seek new housing supply solutions, warns John Stewart
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 affect the delivery of new homes with the private rented sector (PRS) growing and the distribution of wealth set to play a larger part. Housebuilder report
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 sized firms
Failing to plan is planning to fail
The industry needs to better plan its material purchases or it risks a repeat performance of the supply problems of 2013, warns Neil Thomas, director of housing at H+H. It is time to think differently
George Osborne - the planning reformer
The chancellor George Osborne may be personally delivering planning reform but his well-meaning solutions will not deliver the goods, according to Stephen Byfield, managing director of communications consultancy PPS
The new potential of MMC
MMC has become an attractive prospect for the sector, says Richard Jones, head of residential at EC Harris. So why has it not made an impact yet?
Full steam ahead
HBF executive chairman Stewart Baseley welcomes the various housing and planning measures announced over the summer and looks forward to "great leaps" to achieve the step-change that is needed
New trends in land holdings
Steve Menary compares the landbanks of the biggest housebuilders against last year and notes some interesting trends
An impatient, radical government
Ministers have lost patience with local authorities and housing associations, but this intensifies the focus on private housebuilders to deliver the government’s radical housing policies, says John Stewart
The right move
The whole notion of low carbon housing is not going to spectacularly collapse. Innovation will still prevail but is now - at least for the moment - removed from the strangling effect of heftier standards
