Features

The latest news, features, comment and analysis of the UK housebuilding market covering policy, regulation, planning, technology, new developments and products

The Top 25: Britain's Top 25 Housebuilders

The Top 25: Britain's Top 25 Housebuilders

Sept. 29, 2016 Feature

Notes to the Britain's Top 25 Housebuilders table (Figures in brackets are previous year)

The Top 25: From gloom to boom but resilience required ahead

The Top 25: From gloom to boom but resilience required ahead

Sept. 29, 2016 Feature

Brian Green, editor of the Housing Market Intelligence report which is published this month, looks at some of the findings of the detailed analysis of the housing market over the past 12 months

The industry unites

The industry unites

Sept. 1, 2016 Feature

In October UK Construction Week returns to the Birmingham NEC, with its nine shows providing something for everyone within the construction industry. Suzie Mayes reports on what to expect and what is new, focusing on the Build Show which targets the housebuilding sector

The right pitch

The right pitch

Sept. 1, 2016 Feature

Five years ago NHBC launched an industry-wide campaign to help raise standards of pitched roofs on new homes across the UK in a bid to reduce claims and re-occurring problems. NHBC technical projects manager Chris Derzypilskyj looks at how the situation has improved

Councils reveal affordability v brownfield clash

Councils reveal affordability v brownfield clash

Sept. 1, 2016 Feature

Local authorities have been set a 2017 deadline to deliver their Local Plans so the scramble to find sites to accommodate unprecedented housing growth is on. But is the government's dual focus on a brownfield-first agenda and affordability contradictory? Communications consultancy PPS has used Freedom of Information requests to find out. Account director Lewis Jones feeds back

Getting a buzz from building

Getting a buzz from building

Sept. 1, 2016 Feature

Suzie Mayes talks to Chris Endsor, the candid, enthusiastic ceo of Miller Homes, about Brexit, his plans for growth and the importance of sport

A helping hand for incentives

A helping hand for incentives

Sept. 1, 2016 Feature

Johnny Morris, research director of Countrywide, looks at the effect of Help to Buy on housebuilders' use of incentives and speculates that it is time for the industry to look elsewhere for sales boosts

SWOT 2016: Suppliers in tune with housebuilders' SWOT views

SWOT 2016: Suppliers in tune with housebuilders' SWOT views

Sept. 1, 2016 Feature

The supply and subcontractor side of the housebuilding industry has an important role to play to help tackle the challenges ahead. Ben Roskrow focuses on what this sector sees as the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats facing the industry