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Braced for the cuts

26 October 2023

Forget doing ‘more with less’. For housebuilders, it’ll be all about doing ‘anything with nothing’

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A capital idea

20 October 2023

The inadequacies of the housing market have been laid bare by the economic crisis. Now is the time to take a serious look at taxation reform, says Tom Crawshaw

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Down, not under

19 October 2023

The crunch may be far from over, but we will get through it if we all pull together, argue Peter Williams and Donald McKenzie

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Back Office: Left to their fate

19 October 2023

The demise of right to buy will have a devastating effect on council budgets

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Flaw in the plan

04 September 2023

Government‘s move to an asset-based welfare policy depends on continuously rising house prices. Whoops, says Matthew Watson.

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Back Office: Now for the hard bit

04 September 2023

If the HRA is to be dismantled, some serious compromises will be needed.

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Man with the plan

18 February 2024

Build more affordable homes, protect jobs, shore up a struggling industry and fill Treasury coffers? Yes we can, says Brian Green.

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Landed in trouble

18 February 2024

What the country needs is a national bank of reconstruction.

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Recovery position

18 February 2024

We’re not out of the woods yet, says Peter Williams. But there are growing signs that confidence is returning to some markets.

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Back office: It’s a write-off

02 January 2024

The current social housing business model is broken, so let’s move on

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Anyone for squash?

02 January 2024

More bail-outs in the US and a shrinking UK mortgage market. Crunch and squeeze just aren’t strong enough to describe what’s going on, says Peter Williams

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Watch this space

18 November 2023

Ashley Horsey on the threats to a breakthrough in affordable housing finance

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No more nice guy

18 November 2023

In the third of a series of articles on the housing market, Peter Williams charts the transition from the NICE to the VILE decade

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Fixing a hole

04 November 2023

Whose rent surpluses are they anyway? David Hall on the review of the housing revenue account

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A fine mess

04 November 2023

Will the latest housing minister breathe new life into the plan for social housing, asks Sebastian Taylor

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