News – Page 63
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NewsSpecialist provider with ‘unique’ operating model retains AA- credit rating
Local Space, which provides settled accommodation for keyworkers and those facing homelessness, sees outlook improve to stable
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NewsSNP calls for devolution of housing benefit to boost delivery
Party’s manifesto also calls for changes to fiscal rules to boost infrastructure
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NewsBuilding Safety Regulator issues clarification after confusion over unregistered building control approver
Assent Building Control Limited says discussions continue after the Health and Safety Executive confirms work on higher-risk schemes must stop because firm did not register as approved inspector
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NewsFor-profit RPs to treble housing portfolios to more than 80,000 homes by 2028, Knight Frank estimates
Increase fuelled by increased institutional capital entering the sector and existing players expanding their portfolios, says consultancy.
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NewsOnly a quarter of tall buildings with unsafe cladding have completed remediation
Latest official figures reveal scale of work still to be done to make high rise housing blocks safe
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NewsSouthwark Council refers itself to the regulator over failure to complete electrical safety tests
London borough starts “major programme” to carry out testing
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NewsImmigration survey: Tell us how the points-based system affects your business
Be part of major research on the impact of the new policy environment by telling us about the impact on housing and construction firms
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NewsCardiff-based housing association secures £25m loan to deliver 300 affordable homes
Hafod Housing has secured a loan facility from Principality building society
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NewsSurrey council secures registered provider status after winding down housing company
Elmbridge Borough Council becomes an RP as it seeks grant from £1.2bn Local Authority Housing Fund
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NewsEngland needs 550,000 new homes a year to solve housing shortage, says report
If the UK returned to pre-financial crisis productivity levels, salaries could be up to 25% higher
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NewsRegulator orders halt to work on 50 higher-risk schemes due to building control issues
Liquidation of one building control surveyor and failure of another to register in time puts projects on hold
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NewsLabour vows to end ‘bidding wars’ in the private rented sector
Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves will outline Labour’s rental and housing reforms in an announcement today
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NewsSocial landlords report decrease in tower blocks with 'life critical' external wall fire safety defects
The regulator’s latest fire safety remediation report attributes the reduction “at least in part” to the completion of remedial works in some buildings
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NewsGrosvenor completes registration of new housing business as a for-profit provider of social housing
Duke of Westminster’s property company to provide 750 homes through new social enterprise over next decade
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NewsSkills shortage means workers in ‘green trades’ in London are now earning more than £130k a year, report finds
Insulation specialists and heat pump installers picking up £70 an hour
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NewsPublic believes more upfront investment in infrastructure needed to support social housebuilding, survey finds
Places for People’s pre-election survey found that more than 50% of people worry about the strain that housebuilding would put on existing infrastructure
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NewsBerkeley to launch 4,000-home build-to-rent business as annual profit falls
Push into BTR landlord market comes as housebuilder warns sales will “remain subdued” in the short-term
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NewsAnnual UK house prices rise in April for second month
Buyer demand stabilised in April, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
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NewsGreat Places appoints more than 100 suppliers to its latest £1.5bn construction framework
Bids to provide works and services under the latest framework increased by 23%