Adding a street with about 50 homes on the edge of every Dutch town and village would ease the country’s growing housing crisis, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency has said.

Thousands of homes in Ireland are crumbling. In videos posted online, angry and despairing owners pull rotten concrete blocks from their walls and dash them to dust on the ground.…

Shenzhen has become China’s first tier-one city to announce plans to buy unsold homes from struggling developers to turn them into rentals for low-income people. It comes three months after…

Building permits for apartments in Germany fell by 18% in February compared with February 2023, official statistics reveal. The Federal Statistical Office said the figure was 35% less than in…

Canada has announced a plan to ease the country’s housing crisis by leasing public land to developers with a target of getting 3.9 million houses built by 2031, Prime Minister…

Friday saw the topping out of New York City real estate company Douglaston Development’s 1057 Atlantic Avenue, a 474,000-sq-ft, 456-unit multifamily rental development in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood.

Amsterdam is changing its planning rules to allow more housing in existing neighbourhoods, newspaper De Telegraaf reports. In the recent past, the city has tried to tackle its lack of…

Basel-headquartered architecture firm Christ & Gantenbein is celebrating the completion of its first Paris project, a 10,500-sq-m, 104-unit social housing development over five floors in the 15th arrondissement. Begun in…

A joint venture of cement giant Holcim and British International Investment, called 14Trees, has printed 10 houses for sale in Kenya.

The Canadian government will offer a US$1bn low-interest loan to fund an 11-tower housing project in Vancouver developed by the Squamish First Nation.

Finland’s biggest construction company YIT has halted investment in Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.