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Persimmon Homes Green Shoots of Recovery

Persimmon Homes, Britain’s largest homebuilder, has reported today that it is doing better today than it was this time last year.
Sales for the next six months of 2009 are valued at £700 million, £50 million more that it was this time in 2008 even though house prices have fallen by 4% in [...]

7Jul2009 | Tony | 2 comments | Continued
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Builder using webcams for buyers

I was just reading about a builder in Leeds TJ Pybus who has installed webcams to allow users to follow thee build process. This is a really good idea and they must have confidence in their product, but I guess the cameras won’t have the resolution or the coverage to be anything more than [...]

6Jul2009 | Tony | 0 comments | Continued
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Homebuilding Code on Brink of Failure

It looks unlikely that the housebuilding industry is going to be able to produce a “Homebuilding Code” to deal with the issues raised in the homebuilding market study. This is because Zurich, an initial signatory, will not take part in the administration of the code.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) believes that without Zurich [...]

6Jul2009 | Tony | 2 comments | Continued
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Conservatives taking donations from builders

Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, named Persimmon, Barratt Homes and Berkeley Homes as building companies donainting to the conservatives. He said:
“It is a matter of public record that the Conservative party has received substantial political contributions from housebuilding companies that have been active in Hampshire, as well as from [...]

5Jul2009 | Tony | 1 comment | Continued
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Newhomeblogs.co.uk on Twitter

We have been doing some work on this site to bring it up to date and have integrated the site with Twitter. Have a look here – http://twitter.com/newhomeblogs

4Jul2009 | Tony | 0 comments | Continued
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Case Study Request

I write for House Beautiful Magazine and am doing a research on families who have had major problems since they bought their new build home, or who have renovated their properties with a builder who didn’t charge VAT who turned out to be a cowboy and didn’t do the job properly.
If you’re female, aged [...]

7May2008 | Tony | 0 comments | Continued
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