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NatWest | Funding sustainable social housing

|Date: 21 June, 2022

NatWest | Funding sustainable social housing

Funding sustainable social housing is crucial to meet net zero targets and increase energy efficiency in ...

Funding sustainable social housing is crucial to meet net zero targets and increase energy efficiency in homes, says Marcos Navarro, Director & Sustainability Lead for Housing Finance at NatWest. ...

21 June, 2022
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Legal Update | Sustainable finance

|Date: 18 February, 2022

Legal Update | Sustainable finance

Winckworth Sherwood’s Louise Forrest, James Duncan and Lucy Grimwood discuss the road to sustainable fina ...

Winckworth Sherwood’s Louise Forrest, James Duncan and Lucy Grimwood discuss the road to sustainable finance for RPs. Greening Finance: a Roadmap to Sustainable Investing, the UK Government’s policy p ...

18 February, 2022
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Six factors social housing providers need to consider in 2021

|Date: 6 January, 2021

Six factors social housing providers need to consider in 2021

2020 has been one of the most disruptive years in living memory and its effect will be felt long into the ...

2020 has been one of the most disruptive years in living memory and its effect will be felt long into the New Year. But the impact of COVID is not the only thing that social housing providers will nee ...

6 January, 2021
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FCHA secures £7m loan funding to develop supported housing schemes across Wales

|Date: 20 August, 2018

FCHA secures £7m loan funding to develop supported housing schemes across Wales

First Choice Housing Association has raised £7m of new loan funding from Triodos Bank to help fund its co ...

First Choice Housing Association has raised £7m of new loan funding from Triodos Bank to help fund its continued growth and development over the next five years. The funds will be used to develop a nu ...

20 August, 2018
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Lending arrangements for social housing

|Date: 4 June, 2018

Lending arrangements for social housing

Winckworth Sherwood’s Ruby Giblin discusses social housing and corporate lending. Deregulation, the big b ...

Winckworth Sherwood’s Ruby Giblin discusses social housing and corporate lending. Deregulation, the big bang of the social housing world, has opened the door to new funding opportunities for housing a ...

4 June, 2018
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Watford Community Housing completes £200m refinancing with Barclays debt deal

|Date: 22 March, 2018

Watford Community Housing completes £200m refinancing with Barclays debt deal

Watford Community Housing has completed the final stage of a £200m refinancing exercise with a refinanced ...

Watford Community Housing has completed the final stage of a £200m refinancing exercise with a refinanced loan facility with Barclays. The overall impact is to increase the capacity of Watford Communi ...

22 March, 2018
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Late payment in construction

|Date: 22 March, 2018

Late payment in construction

Late payment and non-payment has been a blight on the construction industry for decades — both in the pri ...

Late payment and non-payment has been a blight on the construction industry for decades — both in the private and public sector. Emma Stapleton from TenderSpace examines its impact. In November 2017, ...

22 March, 2018
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HFI: A radical new housing approach is needed to deliver new 300,000 homes target

|Date: 24 January, 2018

HFI: A radical new housing approach is needed to deliver new 300,000 homes target

The Government has been warned that a radical new housebuilding approach is needed if its new target to b ...

The Government has been warned that a radical new housebuilding approach is needed if its new target to build 300,000 homes a year is to be reached. The Housing & Finance Institute, which works wi ...

24 January, 2018
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Social housing sector ‘increasingly commercialised’, new Zurich Municipal report finds

|Date: 20 April, 2017

Social housing sector ‘increasingly commercialised’, new Zurich Municipal report finds

Tough times and dwindling revenue streams are forcing Britain’s housing providers to look for new ways of ...

Tough times and dwindling revenue streams are forcing Britain’s housing providers to look for new ways of making money, a report by the leading public sector insurer Zurich Municipal has found. The re ...

20 April, 2017
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