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UK housebuilding

  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK housebuilders offer to pay £100mn to end competition probe

    CMA unearthed evidence that price information was shared between companies

    Houses under construction
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    Mortgages
    UK ministers urged to ‘get on’ with stronger homebuyer protections

    Consumer group warns people have more rights buying a toaster than a new house

    A new home built in Colchester, Essex
  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
    Lex
    Labour’s housing dreams exceed UK developers’ reality Premium content

    Industry still faces slow build despite hopes for action in government’s spending review

    A construction worker wearing a safety helmet and high-visibility vest adjusts scaffolding on a partially completed house
  • Monday, 9 June, 2025
    UK spending review
    Reeves plans ‘housing bank’ to deliver cheaper financing for builders

    UK chancellor also considers funding settlement of up to £25bn for social housing in Wednesday’s spending review

    Scaffolding around houses under construction
  • Saturday, 7 June, 2025
    Neal Hudson
    Be wary of new equity loan scheme to boost UK housing market

    It wouldn’t be a surprise if ministers launched another version of Help to Buy — but this time it will be more limited

    Montage of a new build house, some cash and a line chart
  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
    Planning approvals for new homes in England drop to 13-year low

    Figures underline Labour government’s challenge in meeting housebuilding target

    Photo of a roof of a newly built house
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    Ministers explore plans to ease rules for small builders in England

    Industry welcomes drive to unblock development but warns mortgage lending reform is still needed

    Several new-build houses on a small development brownfield site, UK
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Plans for 12 new towns in England to cost up to £48bn, report says

    Milton Keynes identified by consultancy WPI Strategy as most favourable potential location

    New built terraced houses
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Camilla Cavendish
    How to fix the UK’s housing crisis

    For young adults, property shortages reinforce the feeling that life is a zero-sum game

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a bird house sitting atop a metal pole which is covered with a mountain of thrown away houses
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Installing solar panels on all new homes will slow housebuilding, industry warns

    Ministers consult on plans to require almost all new properties to have rooftop renewables

    Fitting solar panels on a house roof
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    News in-depth
    Brick shortage threatens to stall UK housebuilding — is wood the answer?

    Timber construction is cheaper, faster and greener, but has struggled to gain traction in England

    A partially constructed two-story building surrounded by scaffolding on all sides, with red and green safety barriers
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    FT SeriesHouse & Home Country Living Special
    Buying a home in the countryside? Don’t bury your head in the sand about planning reforms

    Housebuilding and sustainable infrastructure targets are set to reshape rural England. Homeowners are steeling themselves for unintended consequences — and buyers are significantly upping their due diligence

    Row of village houses with red-tiled roofs nestled among green trees and hedgerows, overlooking rolling fields and distant wooded hills
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    UK social housing
    UK cladding fund fix would enable 90,000 affordable homes, councils say

    Letter to ministers points out that schemes to reimburse dangerous material removal exclude social housing

    A man removes cladding from a tower block in Sheffield, Yorkshire
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Planning reforms to boost UK housebuilding but Labour set to miss target

    OBR forecasts 305,000 more new homes a year by 2029 as a result of changes

  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    ‘Boost’ of £2bn for affordable homes marks a reduction, industry says

    Government settlement announced for 2026-27 is lower than the average for previous five years

  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    UK property
    One-bed flats unaffordable for key workers across half of England

    New nurses, teachers and healthcare assistants priced out of market completely in London, analysis of official figures finds

    A housing construction site in Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK
  • Sunday, 9 March, 2025
    UK infrastructure
    New UK planning rules aim to halve approval time for major projects

    ‘Radical evolution’ is needed to streamline system, housing minister Matthew Pennycook says

    Housing minister Matthew Pennycook
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    UK economy
    UK construction activity falls at fastest pace since 2020

    PMI index declines to five-year low as housebuilding plummets

    Scaffolding around houses under construction at a Barratt housing estate in Boroughbridge, UK, in September 2024
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    Inside Politics
    High-rise flats could help Labour hit its housing target

    The government must tackle leasehold and encourage high-density development

    Tower blocks in London’s Woolwich district
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    Drop in planning permissions in England threatens Labour housebuilding target

    Number of new homes given go ahead last year was lowest since 2014

    Aerial view of housebuilding site
  • Thursday, 27 February, 2025
    News in-depth
    New hope for new towns, but who will pay for UK’s housing plans?

    Labour government is weighing up where to locate its flagship homebuilding projects

    Nigel Hugill at the Alconbury Weald development
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Who will build Britain?

    The UK needs to develop a pipeline of construction skills and knowledge

    Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer views plans during a visit to the housing construction development of Elverby, near Newport Pagnell
  • Monday, 17 February, 2025
    Ingrid Schroder
    Before we build 1.5mn homes, we need to take a long hard look at what we already have

    With hundreds of thousands of empty homes across the country, it’s tragic that the UK can’t accommodate its extensive need with existing buildings. Not only that — it’s an opportunity to rethink how we want to live

  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
    More than 100 sites across England bid to become ‘new towns’

    Keir Starmer claims construction to start by end of current parliament

    Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner visit a construction site in Cambridgeshire
  • Tuesday, 4 February, 2025
    Crest Nicholson PLC
    Housebuilder Crest Nicholson issues going concern warning after ‘very tough’ year

    Company says high interest rates ‘tempering’ UK housing recovery

    A workman in a high-visibility vest and hard hat walks through a construction site at a new housing development by Crest Nicholson
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