Knowsley Housing Trust has been rated ‘good’ by the Audit Commission.

On a scale of zero to three stars, the service received a rating of two.

Accessibility to customers through local offices, the website and call centre; progress being made towards the government’s Decent Homes standard and high levels of customer satisfaction were highlighted as strengths. (more…)

Steve Douglass has been appointed as acting chief executive of the Housing Corporation.

From July 2nd he will replace Jon Rouse, who leaves the corporation at the end of June. (more…)

The winning boroughs in the government’s £30 million project to help families move from temporary accommodation into settled homes have been announced.

The Settled Homes Initiative will see the boroughs of Brent, Bromley, Ealing, Hackney and Westminster offered the opportunity to buy 900 homes to convert into social housing through the use of housing benefit money. (more…)

The UK construction industry has been told that it must better utilise the region’s construction skills base.

The general secretary of the construction workers’ union UCATT, Alan Ritchie, has said that the industry must look to the skills base of British citizens rather than opting for the quick fix method of employing cheap labour from eastern Europe. (more…)

Official data has indicated that house prices dropped by an average of 0.1 per cent in February.

The figures, from Communities and Local Government (CLG), show that average prices dropped from £205,399 in January to £205,102 in February. (more…)