Preferred Homes aims to build thousands of affordable homes for older people. Chief executive Findlay MacAlpine tells James Riding about the for-profit provider’s growth plans and US backers.

John Nicholson will lead on The Crown Estate’s urban development projects, which include a potential pipeline of 56,000 homes across the UK.

A Scottish housing association judged non-compliant by the regulator for two-and-a-half years is now seeking a strategic partner as it needs more funding.

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Tributes have been paid to Clare McCarty, former chief executive of Clanmil Housing, after the landlord revealed her passing this week.

The emphasis on local connection for councils to support homeless people risks going back to a Victorian approach, writes Phil Kerry, chief executive of New Horizon Youth Centre #UKhousing The Poor ...

Private equity giant Blackstone has submitted plans to deliver 600 student beds and 71 social rent homes in south London.

Wirral Council has signed a master development agreement for work to begin on a new garden village on a former gasworks site.