Private housing props up construction sector growth – RICS

'It may be a less exciting prospect, but it should be more sustainable and less volatile than in the recent past', says JLL

'Unprecedented' tightening of insurance market conditions could end up forcing some firms out of business, warns Mactavish

'A perfect storm of diminished consumer confidence, rising material prices and increases in wages and salaries' means that smaller builders are seeing less work, warns the Federation of Master Builders…