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The National House Building Council (NHBC), established in 1936, is the UK's largest provider of new home warranties. According to NHBC's website, around 80% of new homes built in the UK each year have an NHBC 10-year warranty. NHBC is also the UK's largest single Approved Inspector for Building Regulations. Its other activities include the ...
Ginnie Mae, formerly the Government National Mortgage Association, which originally only provided insurance for bonds issued by FHA and VA mortgages in special affordable housing programs. [3] In 1970, Ginnie Mae became the first organization to create and guarantee MBS products and has continued to provide mortgage funds for homebuyers ever since.
Founded in 1942, NAHB is a federation of more than 700 state and local home builder associations (HBAs). About a third of the more than 140,000 NAHB members are home builders or remodelers. [2] The rest of the membership works in closely related specialties such as sales and marketing, housing finance, and building materials manufacturing and ...
In the December 2006 Pre-Budget Report, [4] the Government announced their 'ambition' that all new homes will be 'zero-carbon' by 2016 (i.e. built to zero-carbon building standards). To encourage this, an exemption from Stamp duty land tax was to be granted, lasting until 2012, for all new zero-carbon homes up to £500,000 in value.
Its website provides a public list of NFB-approved builders [1] and a find a builder service. The NFB includes the House Builders Association (HBA), NFB Heritage, the Major Contractors Group (MCG) and NFB Cymru. The organisation has three main departments looking after member concerns; training, policy and membership services.
The HBF can trace its roots back to 1939 and the establishment of the National Association of House Builders. [2] This became the Federation of Registered House Builders in 1946 (representing the housing element of the National Federation of Building Trades Employers, NFBTE, in whose annual reports its activities were described), [3] and the House Builders Federation in 1970.
The Code for Sustainable Homes was an environmental assessment method for rating and certifying the performance of new homes in United Kingdom.First introduced in 2006, it is a national standard for use in the design and construction of new homes with a view to encouraging continuous improvement in sustainable home building.
In November 2009 Edinburgh Napier University received the Queen's Anniversary Prize for its vital role in the establishment of the Robust Details scheme. [8] [9] By March 2012, RDL had received more than 550,000 registrations under the scheme, with some half a million new homes now completed using RDs to meet the required sound insulation ...