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Land & New Homes
New mayors to get £200m a year to boost stalled housebuilding
Housing Secretary Steve Reed says Government is to provide fresh funding to reboot its 1.5m new homes pledge just two months after Savills reported 'dire' situation within newbuild market.
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Housebuilding giants renew marketing deals with Zoopla
Property website, Zoopla, has confirmed that three major housebuilders will continue to use the platform to promote the benefits and boost buyer visibility of new homes. Bellway, Bloor and Gleeson Homes are seeking to optimise their marketing to generate a flow of high quality buyers to support sales rates and greater ROI at a time when the home building industry is facing growing competition from the resale market. With Zoopla consumer research showing that 70% of buyers are open to new builds, but only 7% explicitly look for them, the platform has invested in innovations to support its housebuilder clients. Within its map-based search experience, new homes are highlighted, as well as promoted across the website’s most-viewed pages. Zoopla is also the only property website in the country that enables consumers to search specifically for new-build homes which are part of the Own New – Rate Reducer and The Deposit Unlock Scheme, which enables buying a new home with just a 5% deposit. Driving buying consideration for new homes Products tailored specifically for the new homes market are designed to help housebuilders reach new audiences, including in-search ads, premium listings and featured developments, which increases the exposure of a development…
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Land & New Homes
Shock data reveals housebuilding has hit ten-year low
Despite the Government’s pledge to build 1.5 million new homes, house building numbers have fallen since they came to power.
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Regulation & Law
Legal challenge launched against Government’s housebuilding plans
Save Greater Manchester's Green Belt has launched a legal challenge to plans to develop green belt land around Manchester.
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Labour declares war on councils opposing housebuilding plans
Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook warned councils which resist housebuilding in their areas would lose control of Local Plans.
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Big housebuilding merger given official go-ahead by CMA
An obstacle to the £2.5 billion purchase of Redrow by Barratt appears to have been cleared by the competition regulator.
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Labour declares war on councils who won’t push housebuilding
Housing minister Matthew Pennycook says the Government will take over if councils refuse to update Local Plans.
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Financial woes hit housebuilding sector as construction slows
Barratt issues a trading warning for the next few months, which hits the share price of rival developers.
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Will new Investment Zones deliver Tory’s promised housebuilding boom?
The zones are already planned in 38 areas with other places invited to add to the list as new housing minister launches prospectus.
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Housebuilding behemoth born after two giants combine
Vistry Group, formerly Bovis Homes, has purchased struggling Countryside in a deal worth £1.25 billion.
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