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Galliford Try house building push pays off

Galliford Try profits soared in the first half of the year as its housing expansion into the south east paid off with margins hitting 11%.

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Barratt profits rise as it makes confident start to 2012

Britain’s largest volume house builder has bounced back into the black with a pre-tax profit of £26m in the first half of the year.

Barratt also said

Tarmac and Lafarge merger under threat

The Competition Commission has provisionally ruled that the proposed merger of Anglo American and Lafarge operations in the UK could restrict competition in construction

London council to build 477 privately funded affordable homes

London's Barking and Dagenham Council has signed off an innovative deal to privately fund 477 new council homes at two sites in the town centre.

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Housing starts fall below 100,000 again

Annual housing starts have slipped below 100,000 once more in a fresh blow to Government housing policy.

The 4% fall in house building to 98,240 in 2011 is a major

Call for building stimulus as jobless total hits 16-year high

Unemployment continued to climb to 2.67m in the last quarter of 2011, hitting a 16-year high.

According to new Government figures out this morning the jobless

House sales edge up ahead of stamp duty holiday deadline

House sales edged up in January as first-time buyers looked to beat the stamp duty holiday on properties under £250,000, which expires in March.According to the RICS