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    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      House & Home
      Could a ‘sweetener’ tempt you to buy a new home?

      From moving costs to million-dollar interiors, incentives are increasingly offered to buyers by housing developers. Beware the pitfalls

    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      Vistry Group PLC
      UK housebuilder Vistry defies gloom as sales rise and costs fall

      Company has benefited from having a large share of its business in affordable housing

    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      UK threatens developers over failure to sign building safety contract

      Minister moves to ban 11 companies from housing market until they sign pledge prompted by Grenfell Tower fire

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      ‘Crypto has done better than my Lifetime Isa’

      UK first-time buyers say penalties and property price cap are blighting under-40s product

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Property sector
      UK housing market braced for make-or-break spring

      The first months of the year are typically estate agents and housebuilders’ busiest time for sales

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      LexPersimmon PLC
      Persimmon: UK housebuilder is trading close to trough valuations Premium content

      One of the country’s largest builders of new homes looks like a recovery play

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      Persimmon PLC
      Persimmon warns new home sales may fall 40% on current trends

      Market slowed sharply last year after lenders raised rates in response to disastrous UK mini-Budget

    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      UK competition regulator to probe housebuilding market

      Year-long study will focus on property quality, land management and local authority oversight

    • Sunday, 26 February, 2023
      House building set to slump in England, warns trade body

      Number of new properties completed each year could fall to 110,000 says Home Builders Federation

    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      UK social housing
      Affordable housing at risk from new levy, say Church of England and charities

      In letter to Michael Gove, groups say changes to England’s planning system could hit provision of cheaper properties

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      Jonathan Eley
      UK housebuilders’ profitability no less remarkable than BP’s returns

      A decade-long boom means developers are in far better shape than they were ahead of the financial crisis

    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      Barratt Developments PLC
      UK housebuilders rally after Barratt flags ‘early signs of improvement’

      Company reports ‘modest uplift’ in reservations in January

    • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
      Lex3D printing
      3D printed homes: nozzle application for tech will ensure prefabs sprout Premium content

      House printers say their method is faster and cheaper than traditional construction

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      UK house prices
      UK house prices dropped by 0.3% in November, says ONS

      Average cost of a home slightly down at £295,000 with London reporting weakest figures

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      UK housebuilders in retreat amid property downturn

      Developers cut back on buying land in effort to ride out weaker market

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      Ministers consider planning shake-up to boost affordable housing

      Consultation will look at reforms to allow for hundreds of thousands of new homes to be built on brownfield sites

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      Helen Thomas
      This Nimby charter isn’t only a problem in housing

      The government is making promises on planning that seem fantastical, all unicorns and rainbows

    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      Robert Shrimsley
      Tories are selling their future for short-term salvation

      Instead of backing older generations, the party needs to make political choices to appeal to working-age voters

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Berkeley Group Holdings PLC
      Housebuilder Berkeley slows down new UK developments

      London-focused developer cuts earnings guidance as market cools and government imposes new levies

    • Monday, 5 December, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Sunak dilutes housebuilding pledge in face of Tory revolt

      Mandatory targets will become voluntary in bid to keep two factions of MPs onside

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      Property downturn hits UK housebuilders as sales plummet

      Developers warn demand has dropped as much as 50% as higher mortgage rates bite

    • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
      Taylor Wimpey PLC
      Taylor Wimpey says demand for new homes is falling rapidly

      UK housebuilder now selling homes at around half the pace of first half of the year

    • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
      Persimmon PLC
      Persimmon cuts dividend as housing sales tumble

      Shares slide after housebuilder warns of ‘increased uncertainty’ and higher taxes

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      Construction sector
      UK economic activity shrinks at fastest pace in almost 2 years

      Rising interest rates, economic headwinds and political uncertainty hit construction industry

    • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
      UK economic growth
      Construction slowdown threatens UK growth plans

      Higher costs, tighter credit and labour shortages are hitting the sector, reports find

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