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 Home Builders Federation has called on the government to resolve the house market downturn as a matter of urgency, in order to save the jobs of thousands of housebuilding professionals. More »
Junior housing minister Iain Wright’s announcement that the number of new housing starts will fall to under 100,000 units this year, severely affecting the government’s housebuilding targets, has been met with dismay by Stewart Baseley, executive chairman of the Home Builders Federation. More »
The Bank of England has ignored the industry’s pleas for an interest rate cut, in keeping the rate static at 5% as part of a plan to keep inflation at bay. More »
Tim Hough, chief executive of Miller Homes, has backed Home Builders Federation boss Stewart Baseley's warning that the government ignores what the housebuilding industry has to say at its peril. In his April column in Show House magazine, Baseley, executive chairman of the HBF, re-ignited the debate on the best future use of rural land. More »
