Home building Budget boost
The 2014 Budget should provide a sizeable boost to home building and help the industry rebuild capacity, argues John Stewart, making Labour's 200,000 new homes…
Osborne fuels confidence in election countdown
In the clear skies of a resurgent housebuilding industry, the impact of the removal of Help to Buy was the cloud on the horizon the size of a man's hand.
Money alone won't win talent war
Mike Morris, chairman of engineering services group Tamdown, says that there is a battle to attract and retain top staff, and the winners will be those with an…
Tackling London's housing supply
Richard Jones, group head of regeneration and growth at EC Harris, analyses the issues influencing housing supply in London, and indeed throughout the UK, foll…
Water management in wake of floods
HBF executive chairman Stewart Baseley looks at the issues surrounding the recent flooding and the impact of, and on, new homes. Is it time for a comprehensive…
200,000 new homes in 2020 a realistic possibility
Lifting home building to 200,000 in 2020 looks a realistic possibility, argues John Stewart, given a fair economic wind over the next seven years
Politicians line up on the big housing issue
Of the City statements and trading updates issued this month, it was CALA's that really caught my eye. And not just because of the launch of the firm's two new…
Training is key for a quality supply chain
Mick Hine, operations director of TriConnex, looks at the challenge of recruiting and training the staff needed to tackle the potentially high risk utility sec…
Builders aim for FTSE return
The FTSE 100 is 30 years old. Since its launch, housebuilding and construction representation has dropped. Steve Menary wonders whether the Help to Buy recover…
New tools to control housing market
The Bank of England has identified a new set of tools to decouple control of the housing market from control of the economy, allowing interest rates to remain …
