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UK housebuilding

  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    UK ministers set to change environmental rules to boost housebuilding

    Property industry claims ‘nutrient neutrality’ regulations have halted construction of tens of thousands of homes

    A roofer works on a residential property construction site in Chelmsford
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Flood Re
    UK flood insurance scheme chief warns Labour on housebuilding risks

    Government plan for 1.5mn new homes must consider location and drainage as extreme weather becomes more common

    Andy Bord
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Labour’s homebuilding plans at risk from skills shortage, industry says

    Construction sector training body warns of shortfall of 150,000 workers

    A construction worker uses a level to lay a block on a residential site
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    UK overhauls planning rules in race to build new homes

    Local communities can decide ‘how, not if’ new developments go ahead

    A house under construction
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Will a shake-up in land values boost Labour’s housebuilding plans? 

    Intervention could become one of the most contentious parts of government’s planning overhaul

    A montage of new housing with a crane against a backdrop of pound notes
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
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    What’s next after Trump assassination attempt

    Donald Trump called for national unity as the FBI investigated his attempted assassination

  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    Housebuilders warn construction lag threatens hopes to ‘get Britain building’

    Barratt says it will build fewer homes this year as it tries to catch up from effects of market slump

    A construction site in Aylesbury, England
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Richard Parr
    We need a plan to revolutionise the planning system

    To ‘get Britain building again’, as the new Labour government promises, the broken and underfunded system must be fixed

    A mansion house, with scaffolding under construction, surrounded by trees
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
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    UK housebuilders still look solid as reformers circle Premium content

    Labour’s promises are not going to spur a private sector solution to Britain’s housing crisis

    A worker stands on scaffolding to work outside a newly built residential property at a Barratt construction
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Crest Nicholson ‘minded’ to recommend £720mn Bellway takeover bid

    FTSE housebuilder poised to accept sweetened offer from rival

    A Crest Nicholson housing development
  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    Labour must be ‘belligerent’ on affordable homes, housebuilder warns

    Stamping out ‘grey areas’ and loopholes will cut land values and boost construction, Vistry says

    A builder constructing a roof
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Explainer
    How Labour will try to unlock Britain’s planning system

    Rachel Reeves’s proposals rely not on a single silver bullet but on a mixed package of policies

    Houses under construction
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
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    Labour to set out details of planning system overhaul within days

    The reforms are a critical part of the party’s plan to pull the UK out of a decade of low growth and productivity

    Builders work on a new housing construction in Crewe, England
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    UK housebuilder stocks rally after Labour election landslide

    Keir Starmer’s party has promised to deliver 1.5mn new homes over five years

    Construction work on a house
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Crest Nicholson PLC
    Elliott-owned Avant Homes makes all-share approach to Crest Nicholson

    FTSE 250 housebuilder has already rebuffed an offer from rival Bellway

    A Crest Nicholson construction site
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    News in-depthUK property
    Middle aged and forever renting: developers’ new target market

    Older people cut off from the housing ladder are a growing sector for the UK’s build-to-rent sector

    Montage of an image of a man and a woman, house keys and a ‘Let’ sign
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    LexProperty sector
    Be wary of Berkeley’s shift from housebuilder to landlord Premium content

    Managing tenants is very different to building and selling a house, it could find

    The doorway to a new home wrapped in ribbon at a Berkeley residential construction site in Cranleigh, UK
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Berkeley Group Holdings PLC
    London housebuilder Berkeley to become a landlord as sales languish

    UK group sets out plan to build and rent out 4,000 homes over the next decade

    Berkeley signage
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Crest Nicholson PLC
    UK homebuilder Crest Nicholson rejects £667mn bid from rival Bellway

    Deal push follows another profit warning from Crest Nicholson

    Workmen on the outside of partially completed residential houses on a Crest Nicholson development
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    The Big Read
    Could a Labour government break Britain’s planning deadlock?

    Radical reform has the potential to unlock housebuilding and pave the way for economic success — if Starmer’s party is bold enough

    An image of houses being built with graphs showing the ups and downs of construction over time
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Housebuilders call for new limits on local politicians blocking developments

    Home Builders Federation urges next government to ‘take the politics out of housing’

    A construction worker builds a roof on an estate in Aylesbury, England
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    Blackstone Group LP
    Blackstone in UK rental housing push with £580mn Vistry deal

    Private equity group to buy 1,750 homes as investors seek opportunities in country’s underserved market

    A Blackstone sign with a tower block behind it
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour’s pledge to hire 300 planning officers fails to make up for staff exits

    Modest scale of recruitment to replace thousands who left public sector undermines housebuilding goal

    Builder on a residential housing site
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    Lex
    How politics might help Legal & General’s housebuilding sale Premium content

    Persimmon’s reported interest in Cala Group, an L&G arm, could make sense for all involved

  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    Asda Group
    Asda to create new ‘town centre’ and build 1,500 homes in London

    UK supermarket is latest retailer to push into residential property in deal with Barratt Developments

    A mixture of residential units and an Asda store
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