What you might need to think about in 2011
With the sudden chill in the weather, this article* by Mike Wilkins, Chief Executive of Ducane Housing Association, from the Christmas season could be just the winter warmer we need…
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Archive for the ‘Market View’ Category
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Rental market flexibility and how much to pay for it.
Around 17 November last year something started happening here at THFC (The Housing Finance Corporation) …..the phone started ringing again! That was CSR (Comprehensive Spending Review) + four weeks, and Housing Associations were coming out of the bunker.
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Banks: just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water (II)…
Until recently I thought things might just have been showing signs of improvement in the banking market. RBS & Lloyds have been required as a condition of access to the Government’s Asset Protection Scheme to exhibit economic nationalism by committing to lend somewhere in the region of £39Bn to ‘UK plc’ in the next 12 months. The recent mantra of Social Housing bankers has been ‘open for business’.
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A shift in the Tectonic Plates
We are currently living and working through what has escalated to a fundamental readjustment of the world financial system – a shifting of the tectonic plates not seen since the 1930s. What should we make of it and what will the enduring impact be on the world of social housing?
