Category Archives: Industry News

Lockdown loneliness softens perceptions of retirement living The independent living retirement market is seeing a surge in demand as over 65s embrace community living in search of new friendships and to revive their social lives. Following the lockdown, insights from the UK’s leading residential property service provider FirstPort, found a 15% increase in average monthly property…

Charity gets green light for modular homes to tackle homelessness A pioneering initiative to create a new community and help the city’s homeless and vulnerable men get back on their feet has taken a big step forward with plans submitted to Manchester City Council. Manchester-based charity, Embassy, has joined forces with regeneration business Peel L&P…

RIBA and Architects Declare launch call for climate action research The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and Architects Declare have launched an open call for research to present at the inaugural Built Environment Summit and to form accompanying report, which will be presented to global leaders at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). Co-hosted by…

Homes for Scotland secures political support for 25,000 new homes a year Homes for Scotland, the industry body representing c200 organisations across the Scottish home building sector, has secured significant political support for its own manifesto call for the delivery at least 25,000 new homes each year. The backing, ahead of this week’s election, from key…

Report shows disparity between perception and reality of retirement housing A cross-industry steering group, which included CIH, has highlighted a significant disparity between public perception and what’s actually on offer at retirement housing schemes. New research commissioned by law firm Shakespeare Martineau also shows clear issues with language and missed opportunities by the retirement housing sector’s marketing…

The Scottish property hotspots driving market performance Glasgow, Edinburgh and Fife are the current Scottish home selling hotspots according to the latest research by Keller Williams UK. Keller Williams UK analysed the Scottish market based on its performance over the last year, revealing where the most homes are selling, where has seen the highest level of…

Property predictions: what will the next 12 months bring? Last week marked a year since the shutdown of the British property market, which triggered arguably the most tumultuous 12 months in market history. Almost half a million home sales were suspended and service providers scrambled to mitigate the impending price falls – only for the furore…

Call for construction firms to harness technology post-Brexit The UK’s slow-to-change-its-ways construction industry needs to harness the power of technology to flourish in a post-Brexit world, according to one industry specialist. Dan Grimshaw says unless the majority of future new homes are constructed off-site, the government is unlikely to achieve its pledge to reach net…