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It would appear that despite the odd downpour (well, what with Wimbledon, the Cricket and Glastonbury, what did you expect?!), the weather is set fair for the next few weeks.

The Chancellor's 2016 Budget set a target of a million new homes by 2020 (200k per year), which looks very encouraging for the building trade and the Merchant sector.

69% of survey respondents are interested in making energy efficient improvements to their homes, but 96% have never heard of the Green Deal.

Energy efficiency has a fundamental role to play in helping the UK economy to grow.

In a few days time - yet again - most of the country will be rooted in front of their television sets or down their local pub, enjoying the fiesta of football known as the FIFA World Cup.

It's all rather confusing. Driving to work at the beginning of this week I heard a report from the National Housing Federation which predicts house prices will rise by 25% over the next five years.

The saying goes that when America sneezes, the world catches a cold. And that's certainly been true of the financial crisis gripping the world which really got going in the US sub-prime housing market.

What!

On holiday last week I saw something that, even now, a week later makes my blood boil to think about. A gorgeous lane in the Kent countryside, completely wrecked by the fly-tipping of an old kitchen, carcasses and units, sink, taps, plus the cardboard packaging of the new appliances. I suppose we should be grateful…

Hurrah! The number of mortgages granted to prospective home buyers in October was nearly double what it was at the same time last year.