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Which home will get your vote? Choose your winner from the Homebuilding & Renovating Awards 2025 shortlist
By Teresa Conway, Seán O'Connell last updated
In partnership with The Times and The Sunday Times, our coveted Homebuilding & Renovating Awards 2025 are now underway. Here's all the information you need

How to turn your front door into £500 – this fun decorating competition could see you winning big this autumn
By Joseph Mullane published
By getting creative your front door could be the key to winning £500 this autumn

New Housing Secretary continues pledge to ‘build baby build’
By Joseph Mullane published
Steve Reed vows to accelerate homebuilding as UK construction slows, risking Labour’s 1.5 million homes target by 2029

Why councils are reclassifying villages as towns to challenge government planning rules
By Joseph Mullane published
Councils are increasingly looking to reclassify villages as towns to protect green belt land and limit development under government ‘grey belt’ rules

UK housebuilding sees biggest slump since COVID, threatening 1.5m homes target
By Joseph Mullane published
Homebuilding slows for eighth month in a row, putting government's 1.5 million new homes target at risk

30,000 homes left with damp and mould as government calls insulation rollout a 'systemic failure'
By Joseph Mullane published
Government admits 'systemic failure' as tens of thousands of homes, particularly in poorer areas, bear the consequences of substandard retrofits

Is Britain’s cement crisis about to derail homebuilding plans?
By Joseph Mullane published
Cement production is at its lowest ever recorded levels, leaving homebuilders facing higher costs, delays and changes to their plans

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