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xiii, 290 p. : 25 cm "RICS Research"--Cover Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-279) and index The supply side. Introduction. What is the speculative housebuilding industry? -- Sources of information. Published literature -- Company and accounting data -- Unpublished information -- Interviews -- Methodology. Measuring corporate size -- Houses are not homogeneous -- Social housing is included in the more recent unit numbers ; The pre-war housebuilders. Introduction -- The private housing market. A pre-World War I background -- Industry context -- Building to rent -- Which firms built the houses? -- Inclusivity of the data -- A local business -- The influence of local authority housebuilding ; War and building controls. Introduction -- The collapse of speculative housebuilding -- Wartime construction -- Peacetime controls -- The response of the 1930s housebuilders to post-war controls ; The post-war housing boom 1955-1973. Introduction -- The private housing market -- Which firms built the houses? The period around 1960 -- Mid-1960s -- Pre-1974 -- The emergence of the regional housebuilder ; Recession and recovery, 1973-1988. Introduction -- The private housing market - the

Author

Wellings, Fred; RICS Research

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Limited

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781405149181

Subjects

Management, History, Technology