Home building in UK at best level in 16 months

Netherlands News.Net
Saturday 21st November, 2009

New homes built in the UK have risen to their highest level in sixteen months.

"The number of registrations to build homes rose to 9,163," the British National House Building Council said in a statement released Friday.

"It is encouraging that this month's figures yet again show steady improvement in house building," Imtiaz Farookhi, the NHBC CEO was quoted as saying in the statement.

"The worst may be over," he added.

However Farookhi did toss in a note of caution at the conclusion of the statement, saying "The coming months will be a testing time fopr the industry and it may be some time before we can confidently say that the industry is in recovery."

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