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How coronavirus impacted home improvement projects

|Date: 19 March, 2021

How coronavirus impacted home improvement projects

Houzz, the leading platform for home renovation and design, released findings from a recent survey* of it ...

Houzz, the leading platform for home renovation and design, released findings from a recent survey* of its community of homeowners to find out how the coronavirus pandemic impacted their home improvem ...

19 March, 2021
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Surge in Cowboy Customers: Duped tradespeople taken for up to 1.7 billion last year

|Date: 16 February, 2021

Surge in Cowboy Customers: Duped tradespeople taken for up to 1.7 billion last year

Home improvements customers withheld payments and threatened to destroy reputation of hardworking tradesp ...

Home improvements customers withheld payments and threatened to destroy reputation of hardworking tradespeople to get discounts Over 5 million people in Britain have quoted a tradesperson for a projec ...

16 February, 2021
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JCB launches recruitment drive as production set to surge

|Date: 12 February, 2021

JCB launches recruitment drive as production set to surge

JCB is recruiting more than 400 additional UK shop floor employees as the company gears up for a surge in ...

JCB is recruiting more than 400 additional UK shop floor employees as the company gears up for a surge in production, the company announced today. The market for construction equipment has rebounded s ...

12 February, 2021
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Construction makes urgent new year bid to recruit and retain talent

|Date: 10 February, 2021

Construction makes urgent new year bid to recruit and retain talent

Industry vacancies bounce back, with available jobs 8% ahead of pre-pandemic levels 28,000 construction i ...

Industry vacancies bounce back, with available jobs 8% ahead of pre-pandemic levels 28,000 construction industry roles available Government-backed recruitment platform, the Construction Talent Retenti ...

10 February, 2021
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Tradespeople consider apprentices more important than ever despite Covid-19 decline

|Date: 9 February, 2021

Tradespeople consider apprentices more important than ever despite Covid-19 decline

Over a fifth of companies that regularly hire apprentices took on fewer in 2020 A quarter of tradespeople ...

Over a fifth of companies that regularly hire apprentices took on fewer in 2020 A quarter of tradespeople and companies plan on hiring new apprentices in 2021 Percentage of female, BAME and apprentice ...

9 February, 2021
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Online training round up – February 2021

|Date: 9 February, 2021

Online training round up – February 2021

Last year saw online training and information resources take on a new significance and it is a trend that ...

Last year saw online training and information resources take on a new significance and it is a trend that is likely to continue beyond the pandemic. Professional Builder provides a round-up of what’s ...

9 February, 2021
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CBILs – Property Development Exit Loans

|Date: 4 February, 2021

CBILs – Property Development Exit Loans

Have the sales on your last development been delayed due to COVID? Many property developers have experien ...

Have the sales on your last development been delayed due to COVID? Many property developers have experienced delays in the sales of their homes due to the COVID pandemic. But help is available. We hav ...

4 February, 2021
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Property market provides a boost to building supply companies with over 1.5 million homeowners ready to spend

|Date: 3 February, 2021

Property market provides a boost to building supply companies with over 1.5 million homeowners ready to spend

Over 1.5 million UK households are currently wanting to move, moving soon, moving now, just moved or are ...

Over 1.5 million UK households are currently wanting to move, moving soon, moving now, just moved or are settling in to their new home according to the latest Property & Homemover Report from prop ...

3 February, 2021
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These are the careers introverts are most likely to thrive at

|Date: 2 February, 2021

These are the careers introverts are most likely to thrive at

...and good news, they're COVID-safe too! New research from Merchant Machine reveals the best-suited jobs ...

...and good news, they're COVID-safe too! New research from Merchant Machine reveals the best-suited jobs and cities for introverts. Physicists, machine operatives and marketing professionals are the ...

2 February, 2021
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Hudson Contract highlights help for tradespeople during pandemic

|Date: 28 January, 2021

Hudson Contract highlights help for tradespeople during pandemic

Hudson Contract, the construction industry’s biggest payer of subcontractors, is highlighting the help an ...

Hudson Contract, the construction industry’s biggest payer of subcontractors, is highlighting the help and support available to tradespeople and their families suffering from mental health or financia ...

28 January, 2021
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