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InsightWhat lies ahead for housing?
This week has served up plenty of food for thought on housebuilding, and a dog’s breakfast of industry reactions that run from bleak pessimism to blithe optimism.
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InsightThe pick of the bunch
Wates Residential’s executive managing director Helen Bunch tells Property Week what steps the development business is taking to improve diversity across the board.
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InsightShared ownership provides a solution for those priced out of the housing market
Guy Burnett’s piece on shared ownership highlights some of the reasons it is so important that we do everything we can to protect this support for first-time buyers.
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InsightCambridge’s new course
An ambitious scheme in north-east Cambridge will convert a wastewater treatment plant into a new 5,600-home development. Andy Hillier reports.
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InsightIt’s beginning to look like Christmas
Christmas arrived early for the housing market this year. Not from a bedazzled child’s aspect; more, at least it would seem from early evidence, from a turkey’s.
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InsightBig interview with author Hashi Mohamed: “We can fix the housing crisis”
Successive governments have failed to implement the reforms needed to solve the UK’s housing shortage. Hashi Mohamed, author of a new book analysing the housing crisis, tells Property Week what needs to change.
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InsightCo-living plays vital role in cities
As a former planning officer, I know the difficulties that boroughs have in meeting affordable and market housing delivery targets, creating genuine mixed and balanced communities and persuading developers to adopt an ‘open-door policy’ for local existing communities and groups.
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InsightTop tips to tackle housing crisis
The government has long pledged its commitment to tackling the UK’s housing shortage, which began not because of a blip lasting one year but because not enough homes were built over many decades.
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InsightNext steps for first-time buyers
The Help to Buy: Equity Loan has helped more than 350,000 people get on the property ladder since 2013, but after being limited to first-time buyers last year, the scheme is finally coming to an end in March 2023, with intake of new applicants ending last month.
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InsightDon’t listen to housing ‘experts’
Was rehabilitated Levelling-up secretary Michael Gove right in one of his past pronouncements, that “people have had enough of ‘experts’ saying they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong”? Quite possibly, especially when it comes to housing.