no smoke without fire

[V8Druid]

must have good reason to get this far ....... makes for an interesting read

Top house-builders face investigation for sharing information

An official inquiry into the house-building sector has found evidence of collusion and a need for state intervention.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

 

[Brendan]

must have good reason to get this far ....... makes for an interesting read

Top house-builders face investigation for sharing information

An official inquiry into the house-building sector has found evidence of collusion and a need for state intervention.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

What it costs to build them has zero to do with what they are worth. There will be variations in material costs across the country and wages will be different but house prices are based on outside factors, more to do with area and local values

 

[doobin]

Of course they're a cartel, its obvious. They just drip-feed the market.

Planning needs to come with a time constraint- use it or loose it.

 

[Brendan]

Of course they're a cartel, its obvious. They just drip-feed the market.

Planning needs to come with a time constraint- use it or loose it.

There already is a time constraint, it's three years but once the work has started it's locked in, same for any reg changes if the building had already started construction they were old regs, hence why one of the big builders threw down loads of foundations and held off the works

 

[Gunners]

They drip feed by holding the buildable land, not by the speed they build really. Although I did do a bit of the old "put a footing in, get it inspected" in open fields just to keep the planning open when I worked in that industry so it does go on a bit.
Most of the companies on that list own each other in some way anyway. So it doesn't surprise me there is sharing of information going on.

 

[JerryRtilt]

House prices are governed by supply and demand, privately funded house builders will always leave the market under supplied,why wouldn't they.
Hence the country's housing shortage will never be resolved when left to the private sector.