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Bold Government action needed as housing starts drop below 100,000
22/02/2013
The house building industry is calling on the Chancellor for decisive action to stimulate the house building sector in the wake of dismal figures for housing starts.
Latest official Government f...
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Only 3 weeks to Ecobuild - register for your free ticket
13/02/2013
British Precast and the Modern Masonry Alliance will host a Concrete and Masonry Village at Ecobuild 2013.
The North hall based Concrete and Masonry Village will feature many of the sector&rsquo...
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RICS launches special commission into housing crisis
07/02/2013
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has set up a commission to look at ways to boost housing supply.
The body said that it was deeply concerned that one year on from the government&rsqu...
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Latest NHBC registrations hint at recovery
28/01/2013
New home registrations in the last three months of 2012 showed signs of a recovery despite annual figures dropping 9%.
The latest numbers from theNational House-Building Council showed that from...
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Poor GDP figures sparks call to build way out of recession
25/01/2013
Fresh figures from the Office for National Statistics show the UK economy shrank in the last three months of 2012.
While the economy contracted by 0.3%, construction managed to buck the overall...
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