All articles by Stuart Macdonald – Page 3
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NewsCity anticipates Laing bidding war after £887m offer
Henderson’s bid for PFI specialist pushes shares up 32% as dealers wait for rival bids
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Heywood Williams reports flat sales
Profit at manufacturer rises to £5m but company says challenging market conditions would result in static 2006 sales
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NewsBerkeley Group pays £191m to own St James outright
Housebuilder buys joint venture partner's 50% share of developer
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NewsMiliband considers scrapping one of four growth areas
Communities minister’s stocktake also includes proposal to cut the number of Thames Gateway bodies
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Treasury asks Whitehall to fund 1bn Olympic shortfall
Treasury asks spending departments to search their budgets for contributions to £3.7bn cost of Games
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Londons affordable housing spreads to commercial sites
Target of 50% affordable homes sparks trend for councils to redesignate sites planned for employment
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Big four vie for £3.9bn social housing fund
The country’s four biggest housebuilders have all been shortlisted to bid for £3.9bn of government funding to build social housing.
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Ethnic minority firms get helping hand in Burnley
Pathfinder asks bidders to spend 50% of budget with local suppliers and help those run by ethnic minorities
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NewsBerkeley Homes to set up housing association arm
Housebuilder to create own housing association as part of switch to regeneration and social housing
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Pathfinders ordered to cut spending by up to 15%
Officials furious after being told to scale back schemes because of overbudgeting in three years to April 2006
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NewsMerlion aims for 1000 houses a year
Shared equity provider plans to provide 1000 homes a year by 2008.
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Government finally faces its critics over planning system
As government unveils planning proposals, planners and housebuilders complain that it has been ‘far too long’
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NewsEnglish Partnerships sets sights on infrastructure investment
Chair and chief executive herald a new chapter for regeneration agency, as income from land sales doubles
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NewsWillmott Dixon to grow social housing arm
Housebuilder Willmott Dixon plans to grow its social housing division from £105m to £180m by 2007
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Minister to make planning more responsive to market
Housebuilders welcome Yvette Cooper’s plan to overhaul of PPG3 and force councils to release land for housing
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Aylesbury estate refurbishment faces axe
Officials are trying to plug a funding gap of “£200-300m” to refurbish the Aylesbury estate in south London.
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Top housing associations have £11.5bn to spend
The 553 largest housing associations in the UK have £8.4bn in unspent credit and plan to borrow £3.1bn each year for the next two years to fund refurbishment and construction.
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Social housing firms urged to cut profits
Housing Corporation chairman Peter Dixon expects to squeeze profits up to 10%
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A bunch of fives for John Prescott
Property developers and investors think of life in terms of decades and a particularly important 10 years will begin in April next year, because April 2016 will be when much of what John Prescott has pledged to change through his £40bn sustainable communities plan starts to come to fruition.
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NewsGovernment bails out NHS trust with ‘PFI supplement’
Health department sets precedent by giving London hospital £45m extra to meet cost of new PFI facilities