How to Compare Different Properties When Buying Your First Home

The post How to Compare Different Properties When Buying Your First Home appeared first on UK Construction Blog. Finding a property you like is exciting, but choosing between several homes can be more difficult. Two houses may have a similar asking price while offering very different levels of space, condition, location and future costs. For first-time buyers, the best property is not necessarily the one with the nicest kitchen or biggest garden. Looking […]

RetroFirst Stories: Hyde + Hyde’s deep retrofit of a 1960s coastal house

The Architects’ Journal RetroFirst Stories: Hyde + Hyde’s deep retrofit of a 1960s coastal house Project architect Hugo Billington tells the AJ how Hyde + Hyde is addressing the challenges of poor thermal performance at an ongoing retrofit of a modernist home on the Northumberland coast The post RetroFirst Stories: Hyde + Hyde’s deep retrofit of a 1960s coastal house appeared first on The Architects’ Journal Richard Waite

Morgan Sindall rejigs London and Home Counties business

Contractor sets up new operating unit

The Renovation Risk Premium: Why the Cheapest Property Can Become the Most Expensive Project

The post The Renovation Risk Premium: Why the Cheapest Property Can Become the Most Expensive Project appeared first on UK Construction Blog. Every home buyer has heard the same advice at least once. Buy low, fix it up, and sell high. It sounds simple on paper, and it works out that way in home renovation shows on television. But real life rarely follows a script, and the cheapest property on the market often hides costs that never […]

Morgan Sindall reshapes London and Home Counties leadership

Morgan Sindall Construction has created a business unit covering the Northern Home Counties and appointed a regional managing director for London in a management shake-up. The contractor established Northern Home Counties Ventures alongside its existing Northern Home Counties operation, with Morgan Sindall Construction director Emma… The post Morgan Sindall reshapes London and Home Counties leadership appeared first on Construction News.

RICS, Modus - Safe as houses, why investors are backing homes 14042021

The residential property market, despite dire predictions, appears to have emerged largely unscathed from the pandemic

FT - Xi Jinping’s Evergrande dilemma has repercussions far beyond China, 15102021

Evergrande has become a problem for Chinese president Xi Jinping. There appears to be 3 policy options: bankrupting Evergrande to send a message to the rest of the property sector; propping it up because it is simply “too big to fail”; or facilitating an orderly distribution of assets Kevin Rudd, a former prime minister of Australia, is the global president of the Asia Society highlights that Beijing could let the property behemoth go bankrupt, but that risks shockwaves both at home and abroad

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