Economic recovery scenario
Are we doomed? Is 2011 the earliest we are likely to see any recovery in the housing market? Or are there grounds, however conditional, for believing the econo…
Dig your own hole
Forget the rubbish your parents told you. Debt is wealth. When you’re in a hole, keep digging for victory!
No time to waste, Mr Darling
Mr Darling, there may be no Spring for many housebuilders if something is not done soon
Masters of missing the moment
Just about every action the government has taken to help the market has been too little too late. By acting now on mortgages the government can reverse that tr…
Half a glass
The government’s housing targets and its policy aspirations for infrastructure funding, affordable housing, zero carbon, Lifetime Homes, etc. were built on ris…
Minister speech lifts industry at HMI
Housing minister Margaret Beckett's first speech as housing minister was warmly welcomed by delegates at the influential Housing Market Intelligence conference
The higher they rise
International comparisons show the housing markets of Ireland, the UK and Spain were especially vulnerable to any external economic shock. But no one anticipa…
Time for realism
In the excitement of all the speeches by people called Brown at the Labour Party conference ? Sarah Brown, Gordon Brown, Charlie Brown, bad bad Leroy Brown etc…
The Walrus
A heated bout between an ice-dancing TV girl and a power company king offered some early morning food for thought
