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Housebuilder Honey reveals first full year of trading figures including £71.2m turnover and 23.4% private sales gross margin

Monday, 2nd February 2026

Honey also announces profit of £3.6m for year ended 31 December 2025 As at 1 February 2026, the housebuilder has secured 29 sites that will deliver 4,371 homes with a combined gross development value of £1.3bn Honey plans to open... View Article

NHBC brings sector leaders together for second annual Innovators – Affordable Housing event

Monday, 2nd February 2026

NHBC, the UK’s leading new homes warranty and insurance provider, recently hosted the second annual Innovators – Affordable Housing event in partnership with the British Property Federation (BPF). A continuation of NHBC’s popular Innovators series, this year’s event was called ‘Mind the gap – fund the... View Article

ASWS applies gold standard in addressing bronze shopfronts for Oxford Street retail refurbishment

Sunday, 1st February 2026

Operations Director for Associated Steel Window Services (ASWS), Kris Bennell, reflects on the work to restore three large system glazed bronze shopfronts and the historic doors now opening into the new Ikea store in one of London’s busiest retail locations. Best known... View Article

Government extends New Homes Accelerator to sites under 500 homes

Friday, 30th January 2026

Housing Secretary Steve Reed has confirmed that the second round of the New Homes Accelerator site ‘unblocking’ programme will be expanded to cover “smaller sites under 500 homes,” with a “sharp focus on getting homes built this Parliament and ramping... View Article

Bennetts Associates delivers low-carbon focused retrofit of 5 New Street Square

Friday, 30th January 2026

The retrofit of 5 New Street Square for Landsec, designed by Bennetts Associates, has completed. Transforming the central London office building into a high-performing, contemporary workplace that demonstrates how the retrofit of commercial buildings can deliver low-carbon retrofit and improved... View Article

Mears Group awarded 10 year repairs and maintenance contract with Birmingham City Council

Friday, 30th January 2026

Mears Group has secured a new 10-year contract to deliver repairs and maintenance services as well as planned investment works to 11,500 homes in the central and west of Birmingham, working on behalf of Birmingham City Council. Estimated to be... View Article

WISH welcomes Remington Hall as a new sponsor

Friday, 30th January 2026

WISH (Women in Social Housing) is delighted to welcome Remington Hall as a new sponsor, marking the beginning of a partnership grounded in shared values around equality, integrity and social impact within the housing sector. Established in 1996, Remington Hall is a... View Article

EGGER supports housebuilders with new product-specific EPDs

Friday, 30th January 2026

Underlining its commitment to sustainable construction, EGGER UK has introduced new product-specific Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for its chipboard-based structural flooring products. These EPDs provide clearer and more accurate information about the product’s carbon performance, helping housebuilders access reliable data... View Article

Rinnai expands cost-effective continuous flow hot water heaters

Friday, 30th January 2026

Rinnai’s innovative KCM series of continuous flow hot water heaters is designed to specifically increase customer savings in energy, capital, and carbon footprint with the inclusion of internally refined technological advancements. It operates at 93% efficiency. The KCM unit has... View Article

27 suppliers appointed to £500m social housing emerging disruptors framework as demand accelerates

Thursday, 29th January 2026

Procurement for Housing (PfH) has appointed 27 suppliers to the fifth generation of its Social Housing Emerging Disruptors (SHED) framework – the largest cohort since the framework was established in 2022. The value of contracts awarded under SHED quadrupled in... View Article

Government package intended to boost social housing delivery

Thursday, 29th January 2026

The Government has announced a raft of measures to increase delivery of new social housing across the sector, towards its goal of 300,000 new social affordable homes over the next decade. As well as introducing “immediate” Section 106 changes to... View Article

Residential development in Peterborough celebrated by local authority for building excellence

Thursday, 29th January 2026

A Peterborough housing development has been awarded a host of industry accolades for its building excellence. Hampton Water, a residential community in South Peterborough, has won six Local Authority Building Control (LABC) Building Excellence Awards. Leading independent property developer, Morris... View Article

Government announces Section 106 changes and rent convergence alongside new Decent Homes Standard

Thursday, 29th January 2026

The Government has announced a raft of measures to improve the delivery of new social housing across the sector towards its goal of 300,000 new social affordable homes over the next decade, plus a new Decent Homes Standard to ensure... View Article

Placefirst CEO David Mawson to transition to Executive Chair as part of planned retirement

Thursday, 29th January 2026

As part of the first step in his planned retirement, Placefirst CEO David Mawson will move from CEO to the position of Executive Chair. Mawson will take on the new role in February, having served as CEO for almost six years. Chief Investment... View Article

Platform Housing Group achieves Disability Confident Leader status

Thursday, 29th January 2026

Platform Housing Group has been officially recognised as a Disability Confident Leader, the highest level of accreditation in the Government’s Disability Confident scheme, marking a significant milestone in its commitment to disability inclusion. The Level 3 status – awarded earlier this month and in place until... View Article

The overlooked middle of housing delivery

Thursday, 29th January 2026

Kate Murray, founder of housing delivery platform Ubrix, explores why the period between reservation and the end of the defect liability period remains one of the most fragmented and consequential stages of modern housing delivery. Housing delivery has changed markedly... View Article

The Inspira SP building

Thursday, 29th January 2026

The Inspira SP building, located in the Paulista Avenue region, emerges as a contemporary response to a consolidated urban context marked by the cultural and corporate intensity of São Paulo. STRUCTURE AS PRINCIPLE The tower is designed based on a peripheral structural grid in concrete,... View Article

Ventilated fibre cement rainscreen cladding ‘Design Principles and Project Integration’

Thursday, 29th January 2026

Specifying rainscreen cladding is a perpetual challenge for architects, balancing aesthetic goals, functional performance and regulatory compliance. Modern fibre cement rainscreen cladding systems should comply and exceed strict fire safety regulations, ensure proper ventilation to manage moisture and condensation, and... View Article