A housing association operating in London has been commended by the Housing Corporation, it has been revealed.
Gallions Housing Association, which manages properties in Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley, has been given the highest possible mark across all four indicators of performance.
Such criteria are financial viability, management, development and governance, with the housing body receiving a green [...]

Progress continues to be made in planning proposals for the eco-towns project, it has been revealed.
In a report by the Eco-Town Challenge Panel - which was created by housing minister Caroline Flint - it was reported that many of the bidders for the scheme have made a positive response to recommendations in regards to employment [...]

It is not just homeowners who are struggling with the declining property market, renters are also developing difficulties.
Such is the assertion of Shelter, which points to research carried out by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) which revealed that repossession rates within the buy-to-let sector are rising at a rate twice the speed of the [...]

A housing association based in the north-west of England has commended a report demanding that more affordable homes are built, it has been revealed.
Two Castles Housing Association has backed a recently-released study which stated that property development in the South Lakes and Lake District areas should be carried out so as to give local people [...]

A housing association in Scotland has revealed that it has continued to make good progress, it has been revealed.
Covering the Inverness and Invergordon areas, Albyn Housing Association reports that is has cash funds in excess of £1.5 million.
At the annual general meeting, the housing association indicates that £25 million has been ploughed into new properties, [...]

Shelter has called for the government to immediately inject £8 billion into the faltering housing sector in the UK, it has been revealed.
The money is currently set aside to be spent over the next three years, however, Shelter chief executive Adam Sampson believes that by releasing the funds in one lump sum it could give [...]

An affordable housing development has been completed in Scotland, it has been revealed.
Worth £5.7 million, the North Glasgow Housing Association project has seen a total of 275 homes be built across five sites in the city since 2003.
The project was finally completed as some 40 families moved into the most recent set of homes - [...]

Despite the recent declines experienced in the financial sector, the majority of housing associations should be able to manage through the downturn unharmed.
Such is the assertion of the Housing Corporation, where it stated that there are "challenging times" ahead for those with jobs in housing - due to the slowing property market and difficulties for [...]

Some five million Britons could be on the waiting list for social housing in the next two years, it has been reported.
In research carried out by the Local Government Association (LGA) it was revealed that an increasing number of people may be on the search for this kind of property due to significant increases in [...]

A number of reception centres for homeless people in north London - including those managed by Homes for Islington - have been refurbished, it has been revealed.The new look facilities were unveiled at an event at Homes for Islington’’s Herongate Reception centre, where a total of 115 units have been refurbished to help provide independent [...]