Playing on the margins
Steve Menary assesses the recent financial performance of the plcs and suggests the City is pushing hard for further improvements in margin.
A competitive contracting market
Richard Jones, head of regeneration and growth at EC Harris, urges caution for those looking to reap the benefit of competitive tender prices.
Home building to drive economic recovery
The government has introduced a raft of measures to help home building play a central role in driving Britain's economic recovery. But success will require the…
Mortgage scheme rewards industry’s hard work
Ben Roskrow looks at how the government's "game changing" mortgage indemnity scheme came into being and answers its critics.
Time to sideline the selfish
Ben Roskrow argues that many opponents of new planning rules are plain selfish and are not considering the needs of those who are not yet on the property ladde…
McLocalism–How Scotland handles localism
Donald Anderson, who runs the Scottish office for communications consultancy PPS Group, says that Scotland has been working with localism for a couple of years…
Risk of government give and take
Steve Menary says that the government may well be looking to ease the path for housebuilders to build more homes, but there is a price to pay
Getting Britain building again
Richard Jones, head of residential and regeneration at EC Harris, looks at the government’s efforts to get the market moving
Government must stand firmon planning changes
The consultation on the new planning system has now closed and the debate has ranged from hysterical in the media to feisty but constructive at the HMI confere…
Housing crisis divides by age andwealth
The housing crisis can only be solved if older, affluent baby boomers face up to the damaging consequences of housing shortages for the young and less wealthy
