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Affordable Homes Programme 2011-15: HCA to spend £1.8bn on 80,000 units
Average grant of just £22,000; London takes over a third of the total cash available read more
Affordable rent 'will fail to meet development goal'
The new affordable rent tenure could deliver 12,340 homes a year, or 49,360 in total, and add £51 million to the annual housing benefit bill, according to a modelling ... read more
Developers saw subsidy increase in 2009/10 with focus on volume delivery of units
Landlords saw 10-20 per cent increase in public subsidy and 5-10 per cent rise in acquisition and works costs, benchmarking results show read more
Drop in LCHO development margins
Shared ownership development margins have halved year-on-year, according to an exclusive analysis by Social Housing magazine read more
Conference In Brief
Accounting changes set to bring SHPS debts onto landlords' books; affordable rent 'will seriously damage landlords' development ability' read more
Alternative gearing covenant empowers London & Quadrant to develop more freely
New HCA investment model will put increasing pressure on conventional gearing measure. ALSO: L&Q set to bid 'aggressively' for grant read more
Future housing development hangs on RPs' willingness to consider radical changes
EXCLUSIVE: Funding for new homes could be found through intermediate and market rent re-lets, selling valuable vacancies, and seeking asset class disposals read more
Council New-Build
Full data on the HCA's housing grants to local authorities read more
Continued fall in development volumes points to acute need for new subsidy model
Government must accept that one gets what one pays for: relative importance of housing as a spending priority during austerity is under question read more
Dramatic drop-off in residential planning approvals fuels market weakness fears
The number of homes winning planning permission has almost halved in the past five years, according to a study by the HBF read more
Convergence of public and private sectors set to fuel staff remuneration competition
Debate over landlord chief executives' salaries overlooks growing market for well-paid senior trading subsidiary staff as RPs diversify read more
No quick answers to fundamental question of what to build and how to finance it
Despite property market's apparent return to normality, longer-term prospects remain uncertain as RSLs seek new development funding models read more
