All Housing Today articles in October 2023
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Housing Boardroom: DataQuarterly Tracker Report: Shifting landscape
Q4 2023: Material costs and recruitment pressures ease, as concern grows over competing priorities, borrowing costs and viability, finds Housing Today Boardroom’s quarterly barometer of housing association development directors
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NewsVistry set to announce more huge forward sale deals ‘within weeks’
Vistry’s partnerships chief executive Stephen Teagle says firm close to agreeing deals for 1,000 homes or more as it seeks to increase delivery to 20,000 homes a year
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NewsS&P likely to raise Octavia’s credit rating if Abri merger goes ahead
S&P Global Ratings has indicated they could raise Octavia’s current ‘BBB’ rating due to ‘stronger creditworthiness’ of Abri
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NewsPlatform’s net surplus takes a hit despite 10% turnover growth
The Midlands-based housing association completed 480 homes in the six months to September 2023
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NewsMetropolitan Thames Valley turnover up despite drop in sales income
57,000-home association ‘on track’ to build 815 homes in 2023/24
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NewsInvestment firms Man Group and PATRIZIA launch £100m rental housing JV
£100m platform to invest in new-build single-family rental homes
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NewsUK needs to build half a million homes a year to meet record net migration, says think tank
Government housebuilding target based on substantially lower migration figures
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NewsSalboy unveils plan for record-breaking 76-storey tower block in Manchester
Revised 900-home second phase of the Viadux scheme would be the largest tower block in Manchester
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NewsOwner of 1,525-home Cavalry Barracks scheme to leave £20m debts unpaid
Hounslow Property Development Ltd went into adminstration a week after its former owner Inland Homes, but planning consents for the barracks ”remain intact”
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NewsHouse prices drop 1.2% as supply of homes for sale surges 34%, says Zoopla
Discounts on asking prices reach five-year high in ‘buyer’s market’
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CommentIf leading politicians won’t step up on net zero, housing leaders must show the way
There is a huge appetite for tackling climate change in the sector and through housing’s leadership we can overcome barriers to make a difference , writes David Orr
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NewsA2 Dominion confident of increasing development in 2023/24 despite half-year drop
Housing association reports rising turnover and doubling of surplus
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NewsInland Homes’ for-profit RP Rosewood Housing breaches regulatory standard
RSH says social homes could be lost if sale of Rosewood is not completed
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NewsHousing consortium seeks firms for £400m volumetric framework
Body working with Building Better to find suppliers on four-year deal
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NewsSanctuary and Johnnie Johnson boards approve merger
Older people’s housing provider Johnnie Johnson Housing will become Sanctuary Housing subsidiary
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NewsGrenfell Inquiry report delayed until the middle of next year
Phase-two findings may not be published before seventh anniversary of tower-block disaster
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NewsPlans to transform former hotel site into 447-home build-to-rent scheme gets green light
The £220m Botanical House scheme will retain the basement and ground floor slab of the original hotel building
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NewsPlans for 70-home development in East Devon approved amid sewage concerns
The outline application, which was deferred last month to consult the Environment Agency and local water company, has been approved
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CommentMoney in the autumn statement was in short supply – but ministers do have tools now to boost development
Jeremy Hunt’s ‘autumn statement’ offered thin gruel for housing but there are reasons to be optimistic, writes Paul Smith
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In FocusInsulation for life: Maximising housing stock performance
Paul Barrett, head of product management at Rockwool UK, outlines how housing providers can improve their homes’ energy, fire safety and acoustic performance