What's the difference between homebuilder and housebuilder?
Homebuilder
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Housebuilder
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(n.) One whose business is to build houses; a housewright.
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(1) Not even housebuilders are entirely happy, although recent government policies such as Help to Buy and the encouragement of easy credit have helped their share prices rise.
(2) It is, in fact, quite astonishing to find British housebuilders and planners going along with the design and construction of such decent new homes.
(3) But tangled up in its visions of thousands of new “starter homes” – 5,000 more of which were promised on Monday, when the government said it was going to directly commission housebuilding on five sites in the south of England – are an array of drastic measures aimed at what remains of England’s council homes.
(4) The impact of an underperforming housebuilding sector on the broader industry was to drag down output by 2.1% on the previous month and by almost 2% on the previous year.
(5) At St Edward, a joint venture between housebuilder Berkeley and insurer Prudential’s M&G property arm, 43% of staff are female.
(6) Our last chance to restrain the housing bill is with the Lords | Bob Kerslake Read more The report goes on to argue that private housebuilders, as currently incentivised, are unable to deliver this target and calls for local authorities and housing associations to be freed up to build substantially more homes for rent and sale.
(7) "It's no surprise housebuilders have been pushing the presumption in favour of sustainable development so strongly.
(8) Barratt, a housebuilder not always associated with design quality, has built the St Andrews and Barrier Park projects in east London, albeit only after prodding from the London Development Agency, the public body that sold it the land.
(9) The government has declared an end to the half-decade slump in housebuilding after cheap borrowing and the Help to Buy scheme prompted a 6% increase in the start of work on new homes in the three months to June.
(10) A spokesman for the mayor said: “He has been clear that the new policy must deliver an overall increase in housebuilding in London, and that all the money generated from selling London homes is retained in the capital to help increase the supply of new homes, particularly affordable homes.” The Conservatives announced before the general election that they would set out plans within 100 days on how to allow tenants in housing association homes to buy their properties at discounts of up to £104,000 in London and over £77,000 elsewhere.
(11) I said to Nick Boles, who at the time was the planning minister, ‘Have you been down to Eastleigh yet?’ and he said, ‘I’m told I’m not allowed to go down in case it inflames the whole housebuilding issue’.
(12) Redfern said that out of that figure, about 107,000 plots did not have planning permission, and that housebuilders do not sit on plots once permission is granted.
(13) "As we approach a general election, we now need to see all parties committing to policies that lead to a sustained increase in housebuilding," Basely said.
(14) They believe the scope for further quantitative easing is over and the best option now is a large-scale direct government capital injection for a housebuilding programme, something the Treasury resists.
(15) Barratt Developments , Redrow and Berkeley Group, three of the UK’s top 10 housebuilders, said they had seen little sign of a lasting post-referendum slump.
(16) In the year since, annual house price inflation has reached almost 10% on some measures, and mortgage lending to first-time buyers has reached its highest levels since the crash; however transaction levels still remain historically low, and housebuilding is not keeping up with demand.
(17) The housebuilding programmes that were undertaken were too little too late.
(18) "Pre-recession, housebuilders were used to planning weeks in advance for materials purchasing.
(19) The north Wales-based homebuilder, the largest housebuilder in Wales , with developments across the UK, said Help to Buy accounted for 35% of its private sales, although the scheme had passed its peak.
(20) Skills shortages were also seen as hampering growth and bricklayers have been especially scarce after housebuilding picked up on the back of the government's Help to Buy scheme.