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Jobs scene a little brighter today – but what does the future hold?

Jobs scene a little brighter today – but what does the future hold?

The rate of construction redundancies in the third quarter of this year returned closer to pre-recession levels with “just” 18,000 employees recorded as being made redundant in the three months July to September. And if we didn’t know what we do know about the future we might suggest that the latest employment figures taken as a whole provide reasons to be positive. Across the economy as a whole, more people have jobs, fewer are unemployment and the claimant count is…

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Why the spending review might prove a turning onto the road to Nirvana for house builders

Why the spending review might prove a turning onto the road to Nirvana for house builders

What do the cuts in the spending review mean for house builders? Who really knows? But having tried to piece together what the implications of the Chancellor’s axe wielding are for housing, house builders, housing associations and contractors who build homes, I can’t help thinking what some might regard as the unthinkable. I may be deluded or befuddled by the blur of jumbled numbers, but far from being bad news, I think there is a possibility that things might pan…

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