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Housebuilding (Q4)

Despite the Government pumping £1.75bn into the industry via Help to Buy equity loans, housing starts dropped for the second consecutive quarter at the end of 2014. But with early signs that housing demand is now at least stabilising, housebuilding should begin to recover slowly over the next year.

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