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Affordable Rent to Buy: Working Paper
Posted on: 27 May 2014
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A working paper on the design of a new model for providing affordable housing through recoverable government investments. Under this scheme the government would provide repayable investment to developers to fund new-build homes that must be let at affordable rent for at least seven years. After this time, and only when the government investment has been repaid, the provider will be able to decide whether to keep the property as affordable housing or sell or rent the property at market value.
25 years of Savills residential research
Posted on: 27 May 2014
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A member of Savill’s Research Department takes a personal look at how the property market has changed in the last quarter century.
Building momentum: Housebuilding Report 2014
Posted on: 27 May 2014
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The Housebuilding report contains the findings of Knight Frank’s annual survey of the UK housebuilding sector, giving an insight to developer’s views on the outlook for the new homes industry.
London regeneration: Boosting housing supply beyond prime
Posted on: 27 May 2014
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New research from Savills argues that London needs more homes of all shapes, sizes and tenures. It adds that affordability pressures and constraints in the mortgage market are driving shifts in the pattern of tenures in London.
Guidance on rents for social housing
Posted on: 27 May 2014
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This guidance sets out the government’s policy on rents for social housing from April 2015 onwards. It applies to stock-owning local authorities only, though the government expects the Social Housing Regulator to have regard to it in setting the Rent Standard for private registered providers.
Videos on urbanism
Posted on: 27 May 2014
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UrbanNous provides access to digital multimedia focusing on urbanism. The latest videos cover: housing estate regeneration; low rise terrace morphology; and public realm improvement in town centres.
Code for Sustainable Homes
Posted on: 23 May 2014
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This release shows the number of dwellings that have been certified to the standards set out in the Code for sustainable homes technical guide. It provides a breakdown by local authority area, by Code level and whether the homes are registered as private or public sector homes.
Here and there: One year of the Bedroom Tax
Posted on: 21 May 2014
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A new report from a group of housing associations has revealed that 12 months after its introduction, the Government’s controversial Bedroom Tax, has failed to ease under-occupancy in social housing. The report from six housing associations is the first to analyse a complete year’s data on the impact the Bedroom Tax has had on their tenants.
Residential Property Focus: 2nd quarter 2014
Posted on: 21 May 2014
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Recently there has been increasing publicity over whether the housing market is overheating. The latest Property Focus from Savills looks at the long term price growth trends given the prospect of rising interest rates and the mortgage market review coming into play.
Where is housing heading? How do we build 200,000 homes a year?
Posted on: 19 May 2014
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A paper in new series of policy discussions issued by the Chartered Institute of Housing on the key issues facing housing over the next five years. This paper presents ten ideas on how to increase the number of homes being built.
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