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| Sep 3, 2026 | Paragon MD: Planning system is quashing UK developers’ ambition | Each week, we dig into the memory bank of the City’s great and good. Today, Neal Moy, managing director at Paragon Development Finance, takes us through his career in Square Mile and Me
I worked weekends in a television repair shop whilst a... |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Housebuilder shares rally on Iran war peace hopes and help-to-buy revival | Shares in leading London’s listed housebuilders jumped on Monday as investors bet a potential Iran war peace deal and a mooted new help-to-buy scheme would provide a boon to Britain’s flagging property market.
FTSE-100-listed Persimmon jump... |
| Jul 6, 2026 | Construction sector cuts jobs again as house building slumps | The construction industry shed jobs for the 18th consecutive month in June following “sharp declines” in house building and a slowdown in new home sales.
The latest S&P Global Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) for the construction sector... |
| May 28, 2026 | Local authorities thwart housebuilding with ‘manifestly unfair’ council tax raid on developers | Cash-strapped local authorities across Britain are thwarting efforts to increase housebuilding by hitting property developers with steep council tax bills as soon as their homes are listed as complete, an influential industry body has warne... |
| May 25, 2026 | Is housebuilding in London impossible? | After its 900-home development in Peckham was blocked, housebuilder Berkeley said it can “no longer invest” in London. Felix Armstrong asks whether development in the capital really has hit a brick wall
At the Aylesham Centre in Peckham, so... |
| May 20, 2026 | Housebuilders on hook for mansion tax if they fail to sell property after a year | Property developers will be forced to pay the Labour’s new mansion tax if they take more than a year to offload newly built luxury homes, raising fresh fears that housebuilders will be further disincentivised from building homes in the capi... |
| May 15, 2026 | What does new City minister Rachel Blake have in store for the Square Mile? | The Westminster drama has hit the City in more ways than one. After Wes Streeting’s resignation triggered a mini-reshuffle, Felix Armstrong and Samuel Norman take a look at what the new City minister might have in store.
In just under two y... |
| Apr 3, 2026 | Labour must reform biodiversity laws to boost housebuilding, trade body says | Housebuilders are calling on the government to reform its biodiversity quotas for developers to lessen the costs and delays they say it causes to businesses.
The Home Builders Federation (HBF), which represents the housebuilding industry, w... |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Cancel student debt in exchange for first time buyer equity, housebuilders urge government | Cash-strapped graduates struggling to get on the property ladder should have their debt written off in exchange for giving over a stake of their first home to the government, a new report has urged.
The report, backed by more than 50 housin... |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Housebuilder hopes raised as government pledges 200k homes in new town scheme | Housebuilders are hoping for a boom in construction after the government pledged nearly 200,000 new homes as part of its new town programme, though it has cut five potential sites from its shortlist.
Labour’s housing and communities departm... |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Sluggish economy spooks small housebuilders | Small and medium (SME) housebuilders are being put off from investing in new projects by the UK’s economy and housing market, according to a new report.
As many as 70 per cent of SME building firms said current market conditions are reducin... |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Land development transparency plans ‘solve problem that doesn’t exist’ | The government has been accused of offering a solution to “a problem that doesn’t exist” over an initiative requiring landowners to publicly declare options over land.
The new policy, set to be unveiled by planning minister Matthew Pennycoo... |
| Mar 9, 2026 | Small house building firms in ‘existential crisis’ as sales rates plummet | Falling sales are pushing small and medium-sized (SME) house builders into an “existential crisis” that could threaten the government’s house building ambitions.
SME house builders have seen average sales drop by 41 per cent between 2021 an... |
| Mar 1, 2026 | £9bn in housing funds sit idle in council accounts | More than £9bn in developer contributions earmarked for schools, transport, healthcare and affordable housing is sitting unspent in council bank accounts, according to new research.
A freedom of information survey by the Home Builders Feder... |
| Nov 4, 2025 | ‘Urgent and consistent’ policies needed to revive SME housebuilding | The government must fix the ‘overly complex, costly, and slow’ operating environment for small and medium construction companies to unlock housebuilding, according to a new report.
Delivery of new homes could be increased by up to 56 per ce... |
| Sep 30, 2025 | Why isn’t London building? | Affordable housing targets and well-meaning safety regulation has led developers to conclude that building in London is not worth the hassle, says Sam Griffiths
You’re probably bored of reading bad news about housing in London – but figures... |
| Sep 15, 2025 | Government warned that London housebuilding is on the edge of collapse | Housing delivery in the capital is in a major crisis and urgent measures must be taken to prevent collapse, according to a new report.
Lack of buyer support, as well as excessive bureaucracy and significant planning delays, are “strangling”... |
| Sep 10, 2025 | New minister must not kowtow to the social housing mafia like Angela Rayner | Steve Reed must choose: will he side with reformers who understand the need for the private sector to be allowed to deliver, or with the old guard whose obsession with social and affordable housing means perpetual scarcity dressed up as com... |
| Aug 14, 2025 | Could robotics and timber tackle Britain's housing challenges? | Previous
A manufacturing technician prepares materials for the automated bridge seen behind, at Donaldson Timber Systems in Witney, Britain, June 27, 2025 REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett
A builder uses a nail gun to install timber framing supplied... |
| Jul 9, 2025 | Watchdog probe to net £100m from listed housebuilders for affordable schemes | A probe by the UK’s competition watchdog is likely to result in a collective £100m package from seven housebuilders for affordable housing schemes.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) probe, which looked into the anti-competitive pr... |
| Jun 3, 2025 | MJ Gleeson: Shares plummet after profit warning as property market struggles | Housebuilder MJ Gleeson has warned of a 15-20 per cent hit to its profit this year due to a slow housing market recovery and the collapse of a land sale in Yorkshire.
The company told markets this morning that the pace of housing market rec... |
| May 23, 2025 | Labour’s tax policies are hitting the companies they need to build homes | Construction plant-hire companies are fundamental to delivering the government’s pledge to build 1.5m homes, but they tend to be family businesses – the very kind that are being worst hit by changes to NICs and Business Property Relief, say... |
| Apr 11, 2022 | Blend Network secures $156M for Origination-as-a-Service initiative | Blend Network, a proptech P2P lender that aims to give mid-size UK property developers access to liquidity, announced securing a $156.4 million (£120 million) funding line, according to Crowdfund Insider.
The company says it will use the fu... |
| Apr 11, 2022 | Blend Network raises $156M for Origination-as-a-Service initiative | Blend Network, a proptech P2P lender that aims to give mid-size UK property developers access to liquidity, announced securing a $156.4 million (£120 million) funding line, according to Crowdfund Insider.
The company says it will use the fu... |
| Nov 23, 2017 | 12000 New Scottish Homes to Get 1Gbps Fibre | Amid months of discussion about the coverage and quality of Scotland’s telecoms infrastructure, BT is rolling out of superfast Fibre-To-The-Premises (FTTP) broadband to new housing developments in Scotland.
According to BT, 29 planned housi... |
| Downing Crowd launches property bond to help tackle lack of finance for SME developers | Investment platform Downing Crowd has launched a new property development bond offer, as part of a 12-month programme to raise £50 million for small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) property developers and small businesses that want to dev... |
