A £450,000 price tag on a first-time buyers’ house has underlined the need to build more homes, according to Housing Minister Terry Le Main.
Search results
Benefit extension ‘is an expensive gamble’
LETTING Islanders who have been in Jersey for five years claim housing benefit is an expensive gamble that the Island can ill afford to take, the Housing Minister has warned.
Crackdown on housing fraud
THE Housing Minister is promising a crackdown on landlords who illegally rent properties to unqualified tenants.
Housing sell-off debate delayed
NEXT month’s debate on the housing sell-off will be delayed pending a scrutiny review.
First homes ‘will average’ £450,000
THE cost of an average first-time-buyer home will be nearly £450,000 by the start of next year if prices rise as quickly in the second six months of 2007 as they did in the first half of this year.
Housing Minister to face new questions on Convent Court
THE Housing Minister is facing further questions in the States over his recent revelation that Convent Court will have to be pulled down in 18 months.
Ministers in ‘traitor’ row over Housing sell-off
HOUSING Minister Terry Le Main branded Transport Minister Guy de Faye ‘traitorous’ and threatened never to support him in the States again in an extraordinary series of e-mails.
You’re being watched!
THE homes of States tenants are being spied on to see if the Housing Law is being broken.
St Clement says no to Jambart housing
ST CLEMENT parishioners have rejected plans to build homes for the elderly in the countryside.
Housing funds may be put back in community
PART of the £75m raised by the States housing sell-off could be diverted into community programmes after a request from residents.

