Blog: LSL Land & New Homes

Climate change has been implicit in housing policy for some time, but some would argue that the industry does not go far enough.The Government has set a “net zero” emissions target, to be achieved by 2015. However, it has not apportioned this between the main carbon emitting sectors, the top two ...

A new guide for investors and developers shows what developers need to do to win funding to kick-start stalled developments in the West Midlands region. The funding targets development schemes that have stalled as a result of issues such as high brownfield clean-up costs...

A recent Glenigan Construction index reports that the West Midlands has outperformed all other UK regions in October, with the value of construction project starts up by 44%, compared with October 2017.

Recent ONS (Office for National Statistics) analysis suggest that the UK construction sector expanded by 2.1% in Q3 when compared with Q2. Given that in Q2 there was also growth, this indicates sustained rebound following a contraction of 1.6% in Q1. In part this has been due the way in which pub...

Analysis of data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) shows that new home construction is now almost at levels seen prior to the crash of 2008...

The updated National Planning Policy Framework has now been published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). This round of changes has focused on “building attractive and better-designed homes in areas where they are needed”...

With the UK housing stock worth an estimated £7.14 trillion the housing market remains a powerful player within the UK economy. Despite political and economic volatilities the overall value of the UK properties has risen by more than a third over the last decade. So with a jittery stock market an...

The mid-year Glenigan Construction Outlook forecast for 2018 and 2019 has now been released (July 2018). We take a look at Glenigan’s main predictions and consider their relevance to the new build sector.

With the proliferation of in-home technologies such as Hive, Amazon Echo and Google Home it is perhaps surprising that only 26% believed that these devices would be present in all of our homes. 27% thought that smart screens and TVs capable of making video calls would feature throughout their hom...

On the 1st April 2013 the “Help to Buy” scheme was launched and since then more than 144,826 houses have been purchased under the scheme, mostly to first time buyers. The scheme applies only to New Build properties in England....