Housing News – Page 260
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Six shortlisted for £300m Urban Splash family home designs
Architects were challenged to 'break convention and deliver a new typology in housing design'
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House prices fall a record 16.6%
Average UK home has lost £35,000 in a year as prices fall for 15th consecutive month
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Carillion to build £130m flats scheme beside Tate Modern
Contractor starts this week on luxury London development by Grosvenor and Native Land JV
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First phase of Barking Riverside scheme in for planning
Team enters application for 4,000 out of 10,000 homes in east London
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Bardsley and Charles Church in legal row over £3.3m property
Dispute over £87k retention for Manchester property goes to High Court
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Saracens rugby club owner resigns from Oakdene board
Nigel Wray, who also part-owns Domino’s Pizza, resigns as director of failed housebuilder
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Barratt debt fears dismissed
Sources close to the refinancing talks reject analyst claims that covenants will need retesting
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Oakdene goes into administration
PriceWaterhouseCoopers appointed administrators after housebuilder fails to strike refinancing deal
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McInerney hopeful of new banking deal
The Dublin housebuilder is restructuring its bank finance to counter the effects of recession
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Henry Boot hard hit by writedowns
Trading in 2008 was in line with expectations but writedowns were heavier than expected
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Oakdene defiant after bank pulls credit
Debt called in and shares pulled from AIM but housebuilder denies firm is under threat
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McCarthy & Stone shuts office and cuts jobs
The UK’s biggest builder of private retirement housing is shedding 120 jobs and closing an office in its latest round of cuts
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Level best
A planned development of 34 homes in south London could be among the first large schemes to reach level five of the Code for Sustainable Homes.
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Cowboy agents should be publicly shamed, says report
Rogue property companies should be named and shamed, a report commissioned by the government says
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Waterworld
Architects at Bovis Lend Lease have released designs for a sustainable floating house they hope to market as a solution to global warming.
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Doubts over future of Oakdene after lenders call in debt
Housebuilder's shares are suspended after refinancing talks collapse
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West Midlands housing industry gets £53m bail out
New government scheme includes £12m to buy housebuilders' unsold stock for use as affordable homes
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First carbon-negative residential development breaks ground
National Grid to take excess power from 172 homes
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Half of housebuilders in financial danger
Survey of top 1000 UK housebuilders reveal 496 on danger list
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Housing minister pilloried for bullish house price stance
Government has "lost all touch with reality," opposition claims