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Social housing and the Private Sector

By UK Land Agent | Published September 24, 2010

Sadly, Connaught Partnerships the social housing giant went into administration last week after racking up £220million of debts. The demise of the company is reportedly down to Government cuts and ‘suicide bidding’ – bidding too low for contracts. “Sadly, government public spending cuts are leading to more financial uncertainty for companies with public service contracts [...]

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Can the Big Society fix the BIG housing back-hole?

By UK Land Agent | Published June 20, 2010

A few weeks’ backs the country welcomed in the new coalition Government who have appointed the Cabinet that are now getting to work on fixing the country’s problems including the massive deficit, immigration and the major shortage of housing and many many more issues.  Early this week the LibCons unveiled their ambitious plans to give [...]

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