A Croydon Council-backed drive building around 2,000 homes for local people has been praised by a deputy Mayor of London during his visit to the borough. In 2016 the council established the development company Brick by Brick (BxB), which has... View Article

More than a quarter of homes in the private rented sector (PRS) fall below decent home standards, according to an influential government housing report released today. The English Housing Survey says that 47% of PRS properties did not conform to... View Article

A new international alliance is set to improve the facade fire-testing market in the UK, by significantly increasing both the capacity and the quality of large-scale fire testing of cladding and building systems in the UK. UL LLC, a global safety... View Article

Southern Housing Group, one of the largest housing associations the UK, released its Annual Report and Group Financial Statements for the year 2017-18. The Annual Report demonstrates that the Group’s consistent underlying financial performance is underpinned by a robust balance... View Article

The Building Safety Group (BSG), has reported a 13% rise in the no. of ‘Working at Height’ safety breaches recorded on construction sites. The increase is based on 10,000 site inspections conducted during the first 6 months of 2018, comparing Q1 with... View Article

Retired homeowners released £1.71 billion of property wealth in the first six months of the year as the equity release market continued its record-breaking expansion, new data from the UK’s leading independent equity release adviser Key Retirement shows. Around £9.5 million of property... View Article

The University of Portsmouth’s new multi-million pound sports centre, with public realm by LDA Design, has been given the green light by the city’s Council. It is the first major phase in the University’s ambitious plans to reshape its central... View Article

The HomeLet Rental Index has shown that while the average rental prices across the UK have risen during the second quarter of 2018, the demand for rental properties remains high; and experts predict this trend to continue as more people,... View Article

The British Council for Offices (BCO) has welcomed Katrina Kostic Samen as its new President. Katrina Kostic Samen, Founder and Managing Partner at KKS Strategy, formally takes over the position from Ken Shuttleworth, Founding Partner of Make Architects, at the... View Article

Andrew Lloyd, Managing Director of Search Acumen: “Search Acumen is excited to get down to work and begin to utilise HM Land Registry’s (HMLR) newly opened, central digital Local Land Charges (LLC) register. It is early days, but we think... View Article