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Another one for the file marked “Gloom”: What do you mean you haven’t got one yet?

Another one for the file marked “Gloom”: What do you mean you haven’t got one yet?

Many thanks to Mel Budd of Leading Edge who sent me the consultancy’s latest forecast. For simplicity’s sake I have put the base figures for output in a graph with the other industry forecasts. What is striking is the growing consensus that things are looking horrid and there is a lot more worseness on the way.

There may be trouble ahead

There may be trouble ahead

How worried should we be about the the findings by the surveyors body RICS in its latest construction market survey showing that the outlook for the industry is at its worst for a decade? The short answer is seriously concerned. But that is only a partial answer. It certainly does not address the fact that what seems like only yesterday there were plenty of experts predicting all manner of problems, with the industry by now in near meltdown swamped with…

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