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UK housebuilding

  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Neal Hudson
    We don't really know how many homes we're building

    Even holiday caravans have been known to skew England’s housebuilding data

    Montage image of builder on a half built roof and a line chart
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    News in-depth
    London hit by record downturn in affordable housing

    High inflation, interest rates and building safety costs are driving collapse in construction

    High-rise apartment buildings under construction dominate the skyline over older low-rise waterfront homes in Canary Wharf, London.
  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    UK’s listed builders on track to build fewest new houses in a decade

    Vistry shares drop after it issues third profit warning as others suffer from falling sales

    A builder wearing a hard hat and high-visibility vest uses a handsaw to work on the roof joists of a  residential home under construction
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Targets for affordable housing on greenbelt weakened in English planning reform

    Lower-grade land will be classed as ‘grey belt’ and open for redevelopment

    New aparments under construction
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    LexProperty sector
    A UK housebuilding recovery will not be built in a day Premium content

    Too many caveats surround the government’s goal of building 300,000 new homes a year 

    Berkeley Group banners at a new housing development
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Measures to boost housebuilding in England risk being thwarted

    Experts say councils may be given too much time to produce local plans that permit increased development

    New residential housing development  encroaching on greenfield site  near Worcester
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    UK house prices
    England house prices ‘affordable’ only for richest 10% in 2022-23

    Office for National Statistics data highlights property market pressures

    People walk past property notices displayed at a real estate agency
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    New UK planning rules will bypass councils to fast-track housebuilding

    Housing secretary Angela Rayner says ministers will be ‘grasping the nettle’ in system overhaul

    Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner addresses the Local Government Association
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Berkeley Group Holdings PLC
    Housebuilder Berkeley reports fall in profits but signals market recovery

    Developer hails ‘inflection’ point triggered by government plans for construction boom

    A block of residential apartments under construction at Berkeley’s Woodberry Down development in London
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    UK government sets new deadline to fix unsafe cladding on residential buildings

    Landlords that fail to meet deadline will face ‘severe penalties’, says housing ministry

    A construction worker stands on a scaffold inspecting cladding at residential apartments in London
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Minister warns on Labour pledge to build 1.5mn new UK homes

    Meeting target will be ‘more difficult than we expected’ because of supply downturn, Matthew Pennycook says

    Workers building residential properties
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    UK energy
    Builders face ban on gas boilers in most new homes in England

    Industry demands clear guidance and fixed timeframes as concerns over delays to heating reforms mount

    A worker setting up central gas heating boiler in a home
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Vistry Group PLC
    Vistry shares plunge as cost overruns hit profits

    UK housebuilder blames ‘insufficient management capability’ and ‘poor divisional culture’ for underestimating costs

    Construction workers on scaffolding at a Bovis Homes building site in Crowthorne, UK
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    News in-depth
    Can the private sector deliver Labour’s housebuilding boom?

    Government still has to tackle how commercial incentives limit supply of new homes

    Montage shows builder working on a roof with a data background
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    BlackRock Inc
    BlackRock bets on British brickmaking

    US asset manager has become largest shareholder in UK’s biggest brickmaker

    A forklift is driven past a stockpile of house bricks at the Ibstock brick works in Ibstock, England
  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    UK housebuilders to be given deadline to fix dangerous cladding

    Government will say developers must start work on unsafe tower blocks within 18 months

    Grenfell Tower and public memorial
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Vistry Group PLC
    Vistry shares plunge after UK housebuilder issues profit warning

    FTSE 100 group says earnings will be down almost a fifth because of building cost underestimates

    Construction workers at a new home building site operated by Bovis Homes
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Building new UK towns needs radical approach, says task force chair

    Michael Lyons says potential locations for housing developments will be identified next summer

    A person stands with a dog in a grassy field filled with yellow wildflowers, with new housing developments visible in the background at Trumpington Meadows, on the outskirts of Cambridge.
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    News in-depth
    UK planning reform: how to get developers to build more houses

    Leader of Tory-led Wiltshire council says ‘more carrots and sticks’ are needed

    Montage shows new homes in Warminster against a data background
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    UK property
    Developer seeks permission for two new London skyscrapers

    Long-delayed overhaul of Earl's Court exhibition site edges closer as ministers try to unlock ‘stalled’ projects

    A computer generated image of the Earls Court redevelopment plan
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    UK government teams up with Lloyds and Barratt to deliver housing sites

    Partnership aimed at developing large-scale projects

    Aerial view of a housing development under construction in Bishop's Stortford, UK, showing several houses with solar panels on their roofs and others in various stages of construction
  • Sunday, 1 September, 2024
    UK councils demand extra cash and end of Right to Buy to boost social housing

    Report says £644mn needed to clear backlogs and start building

    A group of three people, two with pushchairs, walk past the hoarding, which reads: “We’re building thousands of new council homes across Southwark”
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Number of new homes being built in UK drops sharply

    Labour government is reforming planning rules in bid to boost housing supply over next five years

    A builder at work on the roof of a house
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    Bellway PLC
    UK housebuilder Bellway walks away from Crest Nicholson takeover bid

    Crest Nicholson shares plunge in latest blow to struggling developer

    Protective sheeting outside homes at a Bellway residential construction site in Cuffley, UK
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    Labour faces tough task in winning community support for building boom

    Experts warn that public backing for development is essential in new government’s bid to end housing crisis

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