Iam in i am in florida iam in florida in i am in florida in the United States, the power of Hurricane Irma has had devastating consequences. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. The government says it is considering ways of making buying and selling houses faster, cheaper and selling houses faster, cheaper and less stressful. It is launching and less stressful. It is launching a consultation in england and wales which will look at whether its possible to reduce moving costs and end practices like gazumping. Community secretary sergey javad says the government has planned a massive House Building programme. Our business correspondentjoe lynam reports. Moving home is often compared to getting divorced in terms of stress and worry. Picking your new home is the easy part of the process, before venders, surveyors, solicitors, banks, agents and removal vans get involved. Currently, it can take three months on average to move home. Getting the mortgage offer from your bank alone takes around
And welcome to bbc news. A senior cabinet minister has said the government should consider borrowing money to invest in hundreds of thousands of new homes. The secretary of state for communities and local government, sajid javid, said ministers should take advantage of record low Interest Rates to deal with the housing crisis. Speaking on the andrew marr show, mrjavid said he was sure the forthcoming budget would have announcements that would cover housing. What i want to do is make sure we are using everything we have available to deal with the housing crisis, and where that means, for example, that we can sensibly borrow more to invest in infrastructure leading to more housing, take advantage of record low Interest Rates that we have, i think we should consider that. That is interesting, because it is a change in tone. Not long ago, we were told we could not borrow more for anything, but you say housing is such a big infrastructure crisis in the country that we should borrow more to
And welcome to bbc news. A senior cabinet minister has said the government should consider borrowing money to invest in hundreds of thousands of new homes. The secretary of state for communities and local government, sajid javid, said ministers should take advantage of record low Interest Rates to deal with the housing crisis. Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, mrjavid said he was sure the forthcoming budget would have announcements that would cover housing. What i want to do is make sure were using everything we have available to deal with this housing crisis, and where that means, for example, that we can sensibly borrow more to invest in infrastructure leading to more housing, take advantage of record low Interest Rates that we have, i think we should consider that. Thats interesting, because it is a change in tone. Not long ago, we were told we could not borrow more for anything, but you say housing is such a big infrastructure crisis in the country that we should borrow more to sol
And what have the police said to you about how you handle the situation now . Well, i havent spoken to the police directly, but we have support on site from other areas. As you can imagine, we are a national company, so imagine, we are a national company, so other people have gone to the site, and our Operations Director is on site handling the situation with the police, and i believe, from our last conversation, that we are trying to negotiate with the hostage to find out what is going on. We are unaware what this gunman is about. And as far as you know, there are no other people being held hostage it is two members of your staff. Everyone has been accounted for, customers have been evacuated, and all our staff are happy safety point, with the exception of these two individuals. Tell us about the training your staff have. Lots of people have talked about how the evacuation was well organised, are they trained to deal with this sort of unexpected incident . Yes, as a national company,