Land News 7
Barratt sales prices jump 4 per cent;
Barratt Developments, the UK housebuilder, said today that a switch to building more houses rather than flats has led to a rise in average sales price of 4 per cent over the past six months.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/construction_and_property/article6987451.ece

Land News 8
The housing time bomb;
As builders cut projects, what has happened to Government's ambitious housing targets, asks Alistair Dawber

An Englishman's home is his castle. Or at least it used to be. Recent trading updates from Britain's housebuilders, signalling that they are building fewer homes than in the past, and a reluctance on the part of banks to offer mortgages, means that despite the Government's target of three million new homes in England by 2020, home ownership is fast becoming an unattainable ambition for many people.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/the-housing-timebomb-1872158.html

Land News 9
Galliford Boosts Land Bank;
Firm's housebuilding expansion plan proceeds apace as sales reservations rise 15%

Contractor and housebuilder Galliford Try is on the verge of completing the acquisition of almost 5,000 housing plots as part of its housebuilding expansion plan, the firm said today.
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=284&storycode=3156084&c=0