Housing to the fore in conference season
HBF executive chairman Stewart Baseley gives the industry reaction to the high profile of housebuilding in the political conference season and addresses Ed Mil…
Making planning work
To achieve the required step-change in housebuilding, local authorities must accept responsibility for meeting the housing needs of their whole community and t…
Help to Buy at centre of the political debate
At the HMI conference shadow communities secretary Hilary Benn did not dwell on the initiative for long, but what he did say was that the Bank of England shoul…
Exploring Help to Buy
Keith Barker, commercial director at Wienerberger, says suppliers and housebuilders need to work together to meet the demand increase generated by the Help to …
Back on land and plans
With land buying firmly back on the agenda, Steve Menary looks at the landbanks of the big players and where they are planning to build
Business models emerge from the ashes of recession
Richard Jones, group head of regeneration and growth at EC Harris, says that the recession has prompted a re-evaluation of business models, sometimes …
Industry capacity key to solving supply crisis
To have any hope of solving our housing supply crisis we need to restore pre-1991 supply conditions so that housebuilders can respond to market demand and indu…
Joy for Osborne as builders start to deliver
Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey and Barratt all issued statements confirming their positive view of the market and their plans to build more
Government delight as builders build
The government has pinned its colours to increasing housebuilding - so it will be delighted, says Ben Roskrow, that the new Housing Market Intelligence Report …
Summertime news
The good news from housebuilders is continuing to impress the City. Steve Menary looks at the summer’s results
