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Search Acumen comments on MHCLG Q4 Planning Application Statistics
Wednesday, 25 March 2020At the time, Q4 2019 felt particularly turbulent – with the prospect of a no deal Brexit and a pre-Christmas election purdah – but it now pales in comparison to the current UK lockdown.
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Search Acumen comments on HMRC’s Monthly Property Transactions for February
Tuesday, 24 March 2020Today’s transaction figures demonstrate the nascent ‘Boris Bounce’ which boosted the property market in January and February. In today’s world, this seems like a distant reality and we expect the months that follow to tell a very different story.
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Search Acumen comments on CLC
Wednesday, 18 March 2020The potential for transforming the property sector over the next ten years is huge. We discuss three central changes in data, skills and regulation which will be crucial to achieving this shift.
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Search Acumen comments on Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick’s Planning for the Future Document
Thursday, 12 March 2020The plans announced today by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick are comprehensive and far ranging – which may be the stimulus needed to throw off England’s housebuilding torpor.
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Search Acumen comments on HMRC’s Monthly Property Transactions for January
Wednesday, 26 February 2020The start of the year saw a slight uplift in the property market as the backlog of transactions that were put on hold at the end of 2019 start to be unleashed given the improved political climate at the very end of last year.
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Search Acumen comments on ONS Housebuilding Stats, Q3 2019
Wednesday, 12 February 2020No one could accuse the nation’s housebuilders of giving us too much of a good thing. Right across the board – from the private sector to housing associations, and local authorities – building figures have plateaued. Except for a brief spike in late 2018, completion numbers have not approached the 50,000 milestone since the global financial crisis.
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Search Acumen comments on Overview of Recent Trends in Construction Output Housing
Thursday, 30 January 2020Today’s statistics show that Britain’s house construction is experiencing healthy growth – particularly in the private sector. While there is much to hearten, we must not be complacent.
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Search Acumen comments on MHCLG English Housing Survey 2018 to 2019
Thursday, 23 January 2020The housing ladder needs some more rungs. It’s all very well saying that anyone can buy but when the percentage of homeowners has stood still since 2013 it seems clear navigating the housing ladder is too precarious for most people to do so safely.
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ONS Construction output in Great Britain – Search Acumen comment
Monday, 13 January 2020The UK construction industry stands on a threshold – advancing forwards to achieve new heights or slipping backwards to stagnation.
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Search Acumen’s latest comment on MHCLG Housing Supply Statistics
Thursday, 19 December 2019Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments: “The end of the decade can’t come soon enough for those in the housebuilding trade. Since the financial crisis we’ve seen rates of planning applications flat line for nearly a whole decade.”
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