The Waiting Game
How Lloydism risks detonating the master developer model, triggering a land strike, and leaving Britain’s housing pipeline…
Concrete, Construction and Collapse: What Plunging Material Demand Tells Us About UK Planning
In isolation, a drop in concrete sales might look like a cyclical…
Planning reforms welcome but piling costs onto builders undermines housing delivery
We all love our festive traditions. Buying the tree, decorating the house and wrapping presents, all soundtracked…
We have a big equity gap for UK housing: can the Budget address it?
As the UK heads into the 2025 Budget, a paradox confronts the residential development funding sector: while…
Big capital stuck in UK Capital
Last week we saw another sign of the decapitalisation of the London residential development market with
Everything you have always wanted to know about funding home building (but were afraid to ask)
The UK housing development sector is being decapitalized. Evidence? The thousands of homes in static consents across…
Make viability great again
There’s been a lot of chatter about planning reforms. How effective they may or may not be…
We are in ICU and need emergency (planning) surgery
I have been reflecting on the recent propviews article which draws out the astonishing stat that…
35% of nothing
Last week, during an in-depth feature for Inside Housing, Deputy Mayor for Housing Tom Copley made the…
80% tax grab stopping fresh investment for London new homes
Housing numbers are plummeting across London. Little more than a year into the Starmer government and the…
