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Boris wants to move older council tenants out of city to make way for families

30.09.09
Hundreds of council tenants could be moved out of London to free up family-sized homes in the city centre... more

£90m plan to create housing from derelict homes on North Circular

29.09.09
Hundreds of dilapidated homes on the North Circular are to be renovated under £90million plans by Boris Johnson... more

Give London its rightful share of the housing pot

04.08.09
It is wrong that the capital is the only region seeing its share of these new funds reduced, by a third... more

London gets taskforce to secure share of £1.5bn homes plans

17.07.09
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Vultures have the funds - now for the feeding frenzy

22.05.09
There will soon be more vultures in the sky than turkeys on the ground if this week's spate of pledges to buy distressed property is anything to go by ... more

State takes control as cash crisis hits Olympic village

13.05.09
The £1 billion Olympic Village was completely nationalised after Games chiefs finally abandoned plans to raise private funding... more

Boris the Bold has put paid to capital’s rabbit hutches

08.05.09
Hooray for Boris. Make the Mayor of London Prime Minister, no, King. For our hero seems to have faced down penny-pinching housebuilders to insist no more rabbit-hutch homes be built for sale in London ... more

How to play the regeneration game?

05.05.09
London has a unique opportuny to rebuild its worst estates – but it will take more than the new Homes and Communities Agency's cash injection... more

Sister act may be dull but it doesn't half matter to P&O

24.04.09
Planning inquiries are not for those with a low boredom threshold. That was evident from the sparse attendance at a hearing at the Oasis community learning centre in Lambeth to hear evidence for and against the building of three rather tall towers adjacent to Waterloo station... more

Estate plagued by crime to be demolished for £1bn rebirth

07.04.09
A notorious "sink" estate is to get a £1billion makeover in the biggest development in London since the Olympic park... more

Hire-purchase plan to help Londoners on to property ladder

03.03.09
Hundreds of London families will be helped onto the property ladder by a hire-purchase scheme which Mayor Boris Johnson is announcing... more

O2 owners to sell arena for 'bargain' £35million

09.02.09
The O2 arena is up for sale for around £35 million, it has emerged... more

It’s plain sailing for Slade, the man with the Aura

16.01.09
Today, property developer Mike Slade is just over halfway across the south Atlantic... more

Housing targets for South-East 'will create ghettos'

02.01.09
Plans to mix social housing with private homes across the South-East are doomed, the Government was warned... more

London’s Victorian housing can give us a design for our times

30.12.08
This has been the worst year for building new homes since 1924. In 2009 the figure will sink lower. We need to learn from an earlier era, says one expert... more

Can we be made to love the Thames Gateway?

09.12.08
Sir Terry Farrell, Boris Johnson’s new adviser on developing the 50‑mile stretch along the river, outlines his radical plans to bring out the area’s hidden natural beauty... more

Thames Gateway plan needs a single leader, Mayor told

03.12.08
Boris Johnson came under pressure to appoint a "legacy czar" for the £9billion Thames Gateway development or risk losing crucial investment... more

Welcome to the new golden age of housing

02.12.08
The Government’s Homes and Communities Agency opens its doors this week and brings the opportunity to change the look of Britain for the better... more

Clean-up hits velodrome

01.12.08
The cost of the 2012 velodrome could rise above its budgeted £80 million as workers remove hundreds of tonnes of rubbish from the site... more

Thames Gateway 'will miss target for 160,000 homes'

26.11.08
The Thames Gateway project will fail to meet Labour's target of 160,000 new homes by 2016, the Government's own regeneration chief predicted... more

Post-Olympic push is set to be a private affair

21.11.08
Property: It is important to decide just what to do with the Olympic Games site post-2012... more

A simple, practical plan to do what can be done

20.11.08
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Boris ‘will fail to hit target on affordable homes’

13.10.08
Housing experts cast serious doubt over Boris Johnson’s ability to meet his target of securing 50,000 new affordable homes for the capital... more

Taxpayers could foot whole bill for £1bn Olympic Village

08.10.08
Games chiefs have admitted they may be forced to nationalise the £1 billion Olympic village amid the current economic turmoil... more

Credit crisis is hitting funds for village, say Games chiefs

23.09.08
London 2012 chiefs have admitted the international financial crisis is making it "just about impossible" to secure private funding for the Olympic village... more

Sums can be right for a good deal on Olympics

12.09.08
Building the 2012 Olympics is going to cost £4.3billion, according to a National Audit Office report in June. Surely not?... more

Olympics may leave us feeling like village idiots

08.09.08
Four years from now, we should be basking in the glory of the 2012 Olympics. Fingers firmly crossed that is the case... more

How our Olympics are being held to ransom

06.08.08
China has been lauded for its exceptional preparations for the Games. But in London it is feared that the developer of the 2012 Village can't raise the cash so the taxpayer will have to bail it out... more

Comment: Lofty targets, but a challenge to achieve them

10.07.08
At first glance it looks as if nothing much has changed: Boris, like Ken, wants to help London's growth... more

Mayor will raid coffers to bail out Olympic village

18.06.08
Boris Johnson will propose a multi-million-pound rescue package for the Olympic village... more

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