Affordable housing is among the top concerns for Europe’s mayors.
Local leaders demand the EU revise rules, so more public cash can be used to build homes.
This year’s Eurocities Pulse: Mayors Survey — conducted in the spring and shared exclusively with POLITICO’s Living Cities — polled 86 municipal leaders from 26 European countries.
#Europe #Cities #Housing #Mayors #HouseBuilding #Politics #EU
‘Equipping new homes with heat pumps, solar panels and high-grade insulation at the time of construction would have cost between £5,000 and £8,500 for most of the period since 2016.
Housebuilders, however, have long claimed building to such standards would be prohibitively expensive.’
Europe manages to do this, even US have higher rate of take up of heat pumps than UK.
It’s a dirty race to the bottom in the UK because of lobbying.
Greece: Material costs index in the construction of new residential buildings 2013 – 2024
Ελλάδα: Δείκτης κόστους υλικών για την κατασκευή νέων κατοικιών 2013 – 2024
#Greece #RealEstate #HousePrices #residential #property #housing #homes #HomePrices #Hellas #Athens #HouseBuilding #Ελλάδα #Αθήνα #ακίνητα #κατοικία #σπίτια #νεόδμητα #οικοδομή
House foundations were completely finished on 9th April, 2025.
We had left plenty of extra time between the foundations being finished and the house panels arriving just in case of bad weather. The weather couldn't have been better, glorious sunny days with barely any wind. The crew was onsite for 8 days and managed to do a little extra with the digger as we had a water supply pipe going to our polycrub that needed burying.
#selfbuild #housebuilding #sutherland #scottishhighlands
Work on the foundations began in earnest on 24th March, 2025. Trenches for the footings were finished within the first two days. The crew worked much faster than we expected.
Once the footings were poured the block work quickly followed, then a layer of hardcore within the block perimeter. Radon/moisture membrane and insulation went in on top and finally the floor slab was poured.
#selfbuild #housebuilding #sutherland #scottishhighlands
🤔 I'm pretty sure I've even heard Labour ministers NOW talking about 1.3m "new homes" instead of 1.5m 🤣 - 200,000 reduction in two months⁉️
#HousingCrisis #HouseBuilding #Construction #MentalHealth #UKLabour #LabourParty #Housing
The initial draw back of the top soil for the footprint of our house and the drainage was completed on 18th March, 2025. Archaeologist was present as required by Highland council and nothing of interest was found. Two huge mounds of earth and turf were created.
#SelfBuild #HouseBuilding #Sutherland
Dire statements from the #OBR head this morning.
Said #housebuilding stagnation is due to #planning restrictions and we should build on #GreenBelt.
No mention of the 1 million plus unbuilt homes for which developers have permission.
Swallowed #DeveloperLobby propaganda.
See https://www.communityplanningalliance.org/uploads/1/3/9/4/139430416/241211_homes_for_everyone_finaldec24_cpa.pdf last section.
And https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/our-response-to-the-new-planning-and-infrastructure-bill/
Important and a bit scary stuff today. We have the pre-start meeting for our house build. The lead for the crew who are doing the foundations and the coordinator from the company who are supplying and erecting the house panels will be onsite with us.
Very surreal that it's all about to start.
#SelfBuild #Sutherland #HouseBuilding
Matt @MattCartoonist on #AngelaRayner #HouseBuilding #ManUtd @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Spain housing crisis: slow construction is to blame, not foreign buyers: opinion
Σύγκριση Ελλάδας με την Ισπανία στην κατασκευή κατοικιών από το 1996 μέχρι το 2023 και 2024
#RealEstate #Greece #Spain #housing #residential #property #HousePrices #HouseBuilding #SecondHomes #Ελλάδα #Ισπανία #ακίνητα #κατοικία #σπίτια #οικοδομή
https://www.wacoca.com/games/1043759/ NEW MONEY vs. OLD MONEY Mansion Builds in The Sims 4 #HouseBuilding #NewMoney #NewMoneyVsOldMoney #OldMoney #PS4GAMES #Sims4 #Sims4Build #Sims4BuildChallenge #Sims4BuildChallenges #Sims4Builds #Sims4Challenge #Sims4Challenges #Sims4House #Sims4HouseBuilding #Sims4Mansion #Sims4MansionBuild #Sims4Mansions #Sims4NewMoney #Sims4OldMoney #Sims4Youtube #Sims4Youtubers #SimsBuilds #SimulationGames #SimulationGaming #SydMac #sydmac #SydneyMacoretta #TheSims #TheSims4
EU: Owner-occupied housing price index, house price index and construction producer price index 2014 - Q3 2024: Eurostat
Annual rates of change of the OOHPI for the EU, compared with those of the HPI and the construction producer price index.
ΕΕ: Δείκτες, τιμών ιδιοκατοίκησης, τιμών κατοικιών, και τιμών κατασκευαστή 2014 - 3ο τρίμηνο 2024
#EU #HousePrices #RealEstate #affordability #residential #housing #Eurozone #property #HouseBuilding #ΕΕ #ακίνητα #κατοικία #σπίτια
Annual change in home construction costs in the EU and Greece in Q2 2024
Κόστος κατασκευής κατοικιών στο δεύτερο τρίμηνο του 2024 στην ΕΕ και την Ελλάδα
#EU #Greece #RealEstate #Eurozone #HousePrices #property #residential #housing #HouseBuilding #ΕΕ #Ελλάδα #οικοδομή #νεόδμητα #ακίνητα #κατοικία #σπίτια
Chris Packham: Our #GreenBelt and green spaces are officially up for grabs.
The Government has said #wildlife should be protected, but 'not at the expense of #building the homes the country needs'.
Yet there are far more empty #homes and properties in the UK than the Government claims it needs to build.
And the Government plans to build some of these #houses - and much more - on our Green Belt and #GreenSpaces.
Read the briefing:
https://homesforeveryone.org/
Morten Morland @thetimes on #Starmer #KeirStarmer #AngelaRayner #GreyBelt #HousingCrisis #PlanningPolicy #HouseBuilding #NewHouses – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Andy Davey @DaveyCartoons @Telegraph on #Starmer #KeirStarmer #AngelaRayner #GreyBelt #HousingCrisis #PlanningPolicy #HouseBuilding #NewHouses – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Dave Brown's @DaveBrownToons @Independent on #Starmer #KeirStarmer #AngelaRayner #GreyBelt #HousingCrisis #PlanningPolicy #HouseBuilding #NewHouses – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
