The end is nigh! Or, that’s what I keep hearing.
But don’t believe it for a minute.
We don’t have war, pestilence, death and mass destruction, or even soup kitchens. Not yet, anyway, not in the areas cutely known as the ‘civilized world’. More »
We’re heading for recession, the Bank of England governor Mervyn King warned recently – just a few days after Housing Minister Margaret Beckett declared at a dinner that she wanted the government to release more land for new homes. What an interesting and depressing juxtaposition those two statements present. More »
The great line I hear from the building experts, employers and unions, as land and housing construction crashes through zero, is: ’Of course I could see it coming.’ More »
Government plans to pilot a ‘rent first, buy later’ scheme to reinvigorate the housing market have been greeted with a mixed response throughout the industry. More »
The government should bypass eco-towns in favour of increasing the size of London, Oxford and Cambridge to stimulate economic development, believes right-wing think tank Policy Exchange. More »
Transport links proposed by developers in the majority of the eco-towns will not be self-sufficient enough to cope with the likelihood of rising oil prices, says a report from the eco-town challenge panel. More »
Economists addressing the British Property Federation’s (BPF) annual conference maintained that the property industry’s fortunes are set to recover by 2009 as the market becomes more transparent. More »
Almost a third of the rental income amassed by the South East Regional Housing Board, from local authority tenants is being diverted to subsidise housing in other parts of the country. More »
