Construction and housing

Construction and housing

1. House construction continues to fall
2. Fewer dwellings constructed
3. Construction time increasing for new homes
4. More mortgages in second quarter
5. Turnover construction down
6. More building permissions for new dwellings
7. Fewer mortgages in the first quarter of 2003
8. Slump in housing construction
9. Housing associations own more than one third of dwellings
10. Increase in mortgages stagnates in second half or 2002