A roundup from the Advantage team The first two months of the year have flown by at the Advantage offices, and you may have spotted Advantage signs like this one cropping up on developments throughout the UK. If you notice one over the coming weeks, please do share it...
House building in Manchester doubles, hitting highest levels since 2006 The residential sector is driving ‘record levels of development activity’ in Manchester, according to Deloitte’s Crane Survey. This follows the news, which we shared in December, that new build...
Working together to tackle homelessness in the North West Earlier this month, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham announced that he had chosen housing association, Great Places, to deliver the city region’s Housing First programme. As reported by Inside Housing:...
The Government provides £250m to build 25,000 new homes As part of the Government’s commitment to undertake the biggest housebuilding push for a generation, £250m has been signed off to build 25,000 new homes. Last month, we wrote about a cross-party report stating...
House building in Birmingham far exceeds annual targets Recently, we reported that new build completions are up 6.4% nationally, meaning that the construction industry is now on track to smash the target set by the government of building a million homes in this...