Cold comfort

It seems that neither the building trade nor the house market can catch a cold without the window industry sneezing so the news from both those sectors this week must be about as warming as the weather forecast. As the FMB points out, materials price increases may lead builders to cut their cloth in aspects of a project Read Story. And no one in this industry needs reminding how moving house can turn the mind to home improvement, so such a drastic drop in houses going on the market will have the inevitable knock-on effect.

However, clearly not all is gloom in the industry as we are pleased to bring you another sprinkling of very optimistic end of year results to add to last week’s crop.

…and just a week after seeing in the New Year with the futuristic view of automatic windows we now step even further into the brave new world with ‘smart windows’ and even references to Artificial Intelligence with the news of the tie up between Velux and ‘smart home’ company Netatmo.
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Meanwhile, for all those of you who agree the smartest thing a window can do right now is stay shut until the weather cheers up, we hope you enjoy this issue.

Chris Church Editor

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This Week's News

‘Thousands grappling with material cost rises’

Nearly three quarters of all small building firms are feeling the pinch of materials price increases due to the weakening of Sterling, according to research from the Federation of Master Builders, which also forecasts increases of up to 15% in the year to come.

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‘Smart windows’ launched

Velux has announced a partnership with smart home company Netatmo to develop a range of ‘smart windows’ called Velux Active.

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Veka names Marketing and Sales Directors

The Veka UK Group today officially announced the appointment of its first Directors of Marketing and Sales following the growing group’s decision to split the two functions from the former Sales & Marketing role.

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Property supply down by nearly half

The number of properties coming onto the market fell by 46.7% last month, far less than the usual seasonal dip, giving rise to new fears of a more cautious market in the face of rising inflation, according to the latest Property Supply Index from online estate agents HouseSimple.com.

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