News – Page 245
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NewsAll developers with profit above £25m to face £2bn cladding tax
Treasury consults industry on the design of promised developer tax to pay for fire safety work
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NewsApril house price growth fastest since 2004
Figures from Nationwide show prices rose more than two per cent in the last month
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NewsNew partnerships housebuilder to turn over £100m in first year
Real Construction formed last month from purchase of two divisions of Rydon Construction
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NewsTeam led by Prior & Partners wins £8bn Thamesmead masterplan job
Successful line-up includes microbusinesses as well as Arup, Alison Brooks and Turner Works
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NewsArgent given green light for 49-storey Brum tower
Octagon scheme designed by Glenn Howells part of developer’s Paradise development
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NewsGovernment Fire Safety Bill victory will see leaseholders ‘ruined’
Campaigners express horror over bill passing financial responsibility for £10bn of repairs on to leaseholders
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NewsCourt rules virtual planning meetings must halt next week
Legal challenge by planners designed to avoid hiatus in decision-making fails
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NewsGreen Homes Grant set for autumn reboot
Green construction board chair says business secretary indicated a ‘equivalent’ to be launched later this year
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NewsConstruction bosses issue warning over materials shortage
Construction Leadership Council says timber supplies not expected to improve this year
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NewsRightmove reports further fall in central London rents
Prices now down 14% amid glut of supply as firm says landlords working hard to avoid empty homes
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NewsFirst Base wins planning for 250-home Bristol scheme
Soapworks scheme is developer’s first in the region
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NewsPersimmon reports sales up by a quarter on 2020
Forward orders are also ahead of pre-pandemic 2019 levels, housebuilder says
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NewsGovernment defeats bid to protect leaseholders over cladding despite Tory rebels
Further votes expected on Fire Safety Bill while consultation on code of practice for cladding assessors launched
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NewsAssociation’s shared ownership sales hit by cladding crisis
PA Housing says pandemic and problems securing EWS1 assessments halved projected sales
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NewsPeabody chief to oversee housing association ‘ethical’ investment standard
Outgoing chief executive Brendan Sarsfield to chair Sustainability for Housing board
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NewsHousing market to moderate following Easter ‘peak’
Zoopla predicts reduction in ‘extreme’ supply-demand imbalance as it reports drop in annual price growth
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NewsVistry wins permission for 500-home Ealing council office redevelopment
Scheme in partnership with London borough will see 50% of homes affordable
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NewsHyde Group appoints new chair
Mike Kirk, currently chair of Hampshire association Vivid, to take over G15 landlord in the autumn
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NewsGodwin files plans for student towers in Nottingham
Scheme includes 692 beds on former Royal Mail sorting office
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NewsGovernment announces £150m self-build boost
New ‘Help to Build’ scheme will work in the same way as Help to Buy