UK Finance response to the Prime Minister’s speech at the NHF Summit

UK Finance response to the Prime Minister’s speech  at the National Housing Federation Summit, where she announced £2bn of additional funding for housing associations. Jackie Bennett, Director of Mortgages at UK Finance, said: “Today’s announcement provides much needed certainty regarding the government’s commitment to the social housing sector, enabling housing associations and their private funders to plan…

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Construction output rise is led by housing

The Latest IHS Markit/CIPS Construction PMI report – November 2017 rose to 53.1, up from 50.8 in October and beating forecasts of 51.2. The report out today headlines ‘Construction output rises at fastest pace for five months, led by housing’, the report mentions that the improvement in construction growth was largely confined to residential work.…

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Barratt Developments release strong full year figures

Barratt Developements PLC released yesterday  their Final Results for the year ended 30 June  2016 headlined ‘Another year of strong performance and a positive start to FY17’. Top of the list of highlights they stated: Disciplined growth in housing completions, delivering our highest total in eight years. Commenting on the results David Thomas, Chief Executive…

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Local authority forum for landlords and letting Agents

South Holland District Council are putting on a special afternoon event especially for Landlords and Letting Agents, this is part of Council’s popular information and networking events. The event takes place on the 13th July at the council’s offices in Priory Road, Spalding from 4pm until 6p, this event the event will give landlords a…

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Increase in new homes being built

According to Data from the National House Building Council  43,987 new properties were registered in the UK between March and May, a 15 per cent increase on the same time last year, this is a significant rise over the figures from last year. The NHBC data appears to support Markit/CIPS figures on the construction sector…

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Government minister for tenants

According to research from Your Move and Reed Rains tenants would like to see a government minister specifically to deal with their issues within the housing sector, actually it revealed 60.2% of respondents were in favour of having one. The survey also revealed that renting is becoming a longer-term option for increasing numbers of people.…

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