3/24/2025 11:52:55 AM UK's Single Family Housing Summit 2025: The rise of single-family housing as an emerging asset class for investors By Diva Gaur Robin Barnes The recent BISNOW conference on Single-Family Housing (SFH) highlighted the sector's growing importance in real estate investment. SFH is...
2/10/2025 3:14:07 PM Angela’s Grey Belt By Rob Atkin-House Angela Rayners’ great hope for finding space for 1.5m homes over the next five years may be the Grey Belt…… a particularly uninspiring...
5/15/2023 10:24:08 AM Planning for Failure – the Undoing of the NPPF By Maples Teesdale Earlier this year, an article by Tom Calver (the Times’ data editor) revealed that the average deposit for a house in London has reached...
6/29/2022 10:27:00 AM Nutrient Neutrality: an unexpected blow to housing delivery By John Bosworth Protecting our natural habitats from nutrient pollution is an important part of the government’s 25 year Environment Plan. The problem...
11/23/2021 3:21:00 PM New Homes to have EV Charge Points By John Bosworth The Government has announced ambitious plans to change the Building Regulations so that all new homes with a parking space will be...
6/26/2019 12:00:00 AM Ikea's affordable flat-pack homes for Worthing. Where did I put that Allen key? By Michael Craik The announcement that the Swedes (in the form of the BoKlok joint venture between Ikea and Skanska) are to deliver affordable housing in...
6/12/2019 12:00:00 AM Time for a public/private partnership? By John Bosworth It is worrying to see that one of the country's largest regeneration schemes is being hampered by short term cash shortages. Of course...
3/26/2019 12:00:00 AM Segregated play areas - it's not fair! By Martin Smith A development in Lambeth has been allowed to segregate play areas between those available for use by the private owner and rented...
1/8/2019 10:03:48 AM Modular/Off-site Construction can change house-building dynamics, but key issues need to be tackled By Martin Smith The Building Society Association have released an interesting report entitled “Laying the Foundations for MMC” – I attach a link to...
12/21/2018 7:54:53 AM Bullish prediction on house prices from Halifax By Martin Smith Halifax Building Society states that limited supply will continue to drive house price growth, and is predicting between 2% and 4% for...
11/1/2018 12:00:00 AM More freedom to spend money on housing means more use of CPO powers By John Bosworth If local authorities are serious about building new homes then they are going to have to get serious about land assembly. And that means...
10/17/2018 4:17:00 PM Housebuilding borrowing cap to be scrapped By Robin Barnes There was some big news for the development sector in Theresa May's closing speech at the Conservative Party Conference. In amongst her...