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• House building figures show huge jump in starts and completions

  There were two big boosts in the numbers released today for house builders. First, the latest Government data on homes built in England are by far the best for more than a year with a massive leap in the quarter to June. Second, gross mortgage lending... Posted Aug 20 2009, 12:45 PM by Brickonomics Filed under: mortgages, housing market, house building, housing starts, housing completions, mortgage approvals, Council of Mortgage Lenders

• Report shows 10-fold increase in 2008 in unsold new homes in London

  The more you scratch the available data on residential development the more astounding seems the transformation in market conditions over 2008. I was invited to be the editor of The Red Book for this year's edition. For those not familiar with the... Posted May 17 2009, 09:47 PM by Brickonomics Filed under: housing market, house building, Homes and Communities Agency, housing completions, The Red Book, section 106, London, stock, London Residential Research

• Private housing starts dive well below levels in 1980s and 1990s recessions

  Housing starts in England plunged in the final quarter of last year to levels not seen in modern times. At the depth of the last house building recession during the worst three month period at the end of 1992 private firms started 19,227 homes. In the... Posted Feb 19 2009, 11:25 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: house building, housing starts, Homes and Communities Agency, housing completions, RSL

• Could buying up unsold private stock be stifling social house construction?

  Is it just me, or is there a link between the deals being struck through the Government's National Clearing House to take unsold private homes into the social sector and the recent collapse in new construction orders for social house building? Read... Posted Feb 16 2009, 05:54 PM by Brickonomics Filed under: housing market, government spending, house building, housing starts, housing completions, RSL, The Red Book, Lehman Brothers, section 106, unintended consequences, Bloor, Santuary Group, construction orders, National Clearing House, credit crunch