Construction
Bricking It: ‘There is absolutely no shortage’
NAEA slammed as "out of date and and unhelpful"
Housebuilding starts up (a bit) with Cambridge and Southwark leading the way
The Office for National Statistics records 36,400 new housebuilding starts in Q2, and 34,920 completions
Lendlease signs £200m deal to deliver Damac’s Nine Elms Aykon
450-unit development will have interiors designed by Versace Home
Boom time for specialist contractors; demolition firms smashing it
UK's top 10 demolition firms saw combined revenues rise by a 27.4%
Central London’s ‘new-build crisis’: Over-supply and falling values are ‘a major concern’
Demand seems to be drying up for new-build apartments in central London as planning pipelines balloon, reports investment house London Central Portfolio, with a worsening case of over-supply - which the …
Building London: Mapping how development activity in the capital has changed since 1900
This is quite interesting
Reality Checks: Understanding the Building Survey Report
More than seven million UK homeowners chose not to have a survey on their current property
PCL development land values slide back to 2014’s level
The value of development land in prime central London has tumbled by 9.4% on the year, sliding back to levels last seen in the Summer of 2014.
Q2's quite dramatic -6
Westminster’s anti-iceberg basement rules are now in play
Westminster Council's anti-iceberg rules came into effect this week, making it exceptionally difficult to create big-scale basement extensions in the borough.
Architects come up with 20 ways to ‘tackle the housing crisis’
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has set out a hashtagged batch of proposals to deal with what it calls "the UK’s dire housing crisis".
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New home registrations at highest level since the crash (but what’s going on in London?)
A total of 41,222 new homes were registered by the National House Building Council throughout the UK in Q2, an uptick of 1% on the same period last year.
Architects implore government to keep free movement following Brexit
All five professional bodies representing architects across the British Isles have issued a joint statement, after a big powwow in Belfast to discuss the implications of the UK referendum to leave the…