McStone achieves 19% rise in legal completions
<p>McCarthy & Stone saw its legal completions rise 19% in its half year to February 29 2016, against the equivalent period last year, it announced today (April 19).</p>
Persimmon reports strong year-to-date performance
<p>Persimmon has seen robust trading for the year to date, despite continuing to experience planning delays.</p>
Countryside Properties "performs well"
<p>Countryside Properties’ housebuilding division has “performed well,” the company said today, with total completions rising 25.3% during its half year against the equivalent period in 2015.</p>
New md for H+H UK
HBF calls upon mayoral candidates for "credible plan"
<p>Housebuilders have urged candidates in the London mayoral election to make a “credible plan” to deliver the homes the capital needs, in order for London to maintain its status as “the world’s capital city”.</p>
New chairman takes over at Housing Forum
Housing association merger to deliver 100,000 homes
<p>L&Q, The Hyde Group and East Thames are set to merge, with the new organisation planning to deliver 100,000 new homes across London and the south east.</p>
Housebuilding activity at three-year low - CIPS
<p>Housebuilding activity has slackened to its slowest pace in more than three years, according to the latest survey from the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS).</p>
Lack of suitable properties prevents London downsizing - McStone
<p>More than four in ten Londoners aged 55 and over believe there is a lack of suitable accommodation in the capital to downsize to, according to a YouGov poll conducted on behalf of McCarthy & Stone.</p>
Report calls for major public housebuilding programme
<p>Historically low housebuilding levels are thanks to an “over-reliance on private sector output” according to a report, which calls for a large public sector housebuilding drive to ease the country’s housing shortage.</p>
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