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Arundel Gate Finance has secured £30m of funding from Paragon Bank, including a £12m revolving loan facility, to assist in the development of 90 high-quality residential homes in Arundel, West Sussex. The company has appointed multi award-winning Kent-based developer Esquire... View Article

Avant Homes has grown its in-house planning and architectural design teams to support its multi-tenure UK expansion strategy which has seen the business open three new regional operating companies this year. The housebuilder’s planning and architectural design teams now comprise eight and... View Article

Avant Homes West Midlands is set to deliver 150 new homes in Rushall, Walsall after being granted planning permission for a £33.8m development. Called Pavilion Acres and located off Harden Road, the 12.7-acre development will include a mix of one-, two-,... View Article

Leading premium housebuilder Redrow has welcomed 13 graduates to its 2023 Graduate Development Programme, helping to develop and futureproof talent in the property sector. With around 15% of its overall workforce as trainees, each year Redrow employs graduates from across the UK,... View Article

Top 10 UK homebuilder Keepmoat is delivering the first development of new homes to full Future Homes Standard for private sale at its Gedling Green development in Nottingham. The new development includes 33 new homes at the site of the... View Article

Housebuilder Avant Homes West Yorkshire has strengthened its commercial team with two senior appointments. Chris Penn and Mark Lyon join as commercial director and commercial manager respectively, and will both play a pivotal role in supporting housebuilder’s multi tenure regional expansion strategy.... View Article

Despite the prime minister Rishi Sunak’s plans to water down net zero targets on gas boilers the goal to fit all new homes with heat pumps by 2025 still stands. Industry experts worry there are insufficient qualified installers to scale... View Article

With Europe currently sweltering under 40 degree heat and the UK experiencing its hottest June on record this year1, meteorologists are forecasting the chance of Britain experiencing a hot summer is now 45% – 2.3 times the normal figure2. While... View Article

Avant Homes has continued to lay the foundations of future growth by moving from its Stirling office and establishing two new offices located in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The new Avant East Scotland business is based at Edinburgh Park, South Gyle, with... View Article

Kier Property has secured committee planning consent for its proposed residential scheme in Egham (with resolution to grant, subject to the section 106 agreement). Kier purchased the existing office building in February 2021 along with the adjacent car parking from... View Article

Award-winning housebuilder The Hill Group has promoted Dan Haines to Land Director to oversee the company’s residential land portfolio and further enhance the company’s regional expansion and ambitious growth plans. With 20 years of real estate experience, Dan joined Hill... View Article

A House of Lords report has found a “real risk that the Government will miss both its housing targets and its environmental ambitions,” thanks to its “haphazard implementation of environmental regulations” in housebuilding. The report, ‘The impact of environmental regulations... View Article