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David Hannah – Group Chairman of Cornerstone Tax – comments on how the current landscape isn’t working for tenants and landlords alike Exclusive data from Cornerstone Tax has revealed that 24% of London renters have been forced to move rental... View Article

Construction of 62 new affordable homes – including 20 for Gateshead’s Jewish community – is underway. The Gateshead Regeneration Partnership (GRP) is using finance created from the sale of around 50 houses to be built elsewhere in the borough to part fund... View Article

The UK’s leading door manufacturer, JELD-WEN, has published a new whitepaper that calls for dual certification of doorsets to become a legal requirement within all multi-occupancy developments. The whitepaper, titled “Turning the Key Towards Better Security” has been published in... View Article

Stonewater has completed a transfer of 15 homes from Puttenham & Wanborough Housing Society (PWHS). Following discussions that began last year, 15 homes and their customers in the villages of Puttenham and Wanborough in Surrey have been welcomed by national... View Article

In 2023, Pine Court Housing Association acquired 23 homes on Tunstall Street in a £3.2m deal with Liverpool City Council. The once derelict road in Picton is now home to a vibrant community that is thriving just nine months following... View Article

One area with huge potential for decarbonisation is heating and hot water. While this issue must be tackled in all buildings, there is a huge opportunity for housing associations specifically to take steps to decarbonise as Achilleas Georgiou from Mitsubishi... View Article

Be First, the urban regeneration arm of Barking and Dagenham Council, celebrated the start of construction on part of the third phase of Gascoigne East at Gascoigne Neighbourhood with a groundbreaking ceremony held with contractor Wates Group. The latest phase... View Article

The decarbonisation of social housing will have benefits way beyond housing itself, says a new independent think tank report. The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) claims that making the nation’s homes more energy efficient – essential to realising the UK’s... View Article

A pair of ageing Salford tower blocks are going ‘green’ as part of a multi-million pound eco-transformation. Housing association Salix Homes has unveiled its ambitious investment plans for neighbouring blocks Greyfriar Court and Whitefriar Court in the Greengate area of... View Article

Essex-based housing association CHP has recently achieved the Customer Contact Association (CCA) Global Standard accreditation for the seventeenth consecutive year. This accreditation is a globally recognised framework that assesses the reliability and effectiveness of a company’s customer service operation. The... View Article

Award-winning shared ownership provider SO Resi recently launched its latest phase of new homes in the capital, SO Resi Hendon Waterside, comprising 42 studio, one and two-bedroom apartments, as well as two and three-bedroom duplex homes. According to research from... View Article

Orbit Homes will be launching its first Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP) powered development in the East, Liberty Park, which will comprise 50 affordable properties. The homes in Rackheath, Norfolk, will each be fitted with an electric ASHP which takes... View Article

Orbit, one of the UK’s foremost affordable housing groups, has published its progress against its Sustainability commitments in its 2022/23 Sustainability Report. The Report details how the social housing provider is working to meet people’s needs now, and in the... View Article