Auction income jumps £20m

Social tenants unfairly blamed for summer’s riots

Tenants of London’s largest housing associations made up just 1 per cent of arrests in the capital after August’s riots.

Moat in £100m bid to buy more homes

Moat Housing Group plans to spend up to £100 million buying thousands of homes from other landlords.

Lending threat to development plans

Housing associations may struggle to fund their committed development programmes because of constrained bank lending, the social housing regulator has warned.

Private rise

Construction of public housing falls

Public sector construction activity fell in the first quarter of 2011 despite an upturn in the market overall, according to a survey by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Pinnock in practice

A recent case suggests the impact of the Pinnock case on repossession hearings could be less dramatic than feared. Daniel Skinner explains

Under the hammer

The old adage that one man’s treasure is another man’s trash is a saying which has paid dividends in auction houses across the world for years.

What’s in a name?

The housing strategy for England has finally arrived, but what does it mean for the sector?

Time to focus

Associations should prepare for freedom of information requests and greater transparency

Knocking down barriers

Finance Bill reforms aim to make it easier and cheaper to invest in the housing market. James Duncan, partner at Winckworth Sherwood, explains