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Housing, property and construction

Our work in this sector, which covers both public and private sector housing, property and construction and estate management, is wide-ranging in scope, and includes detailed analyses of individual departments' estate management and cross-government reviews.

It also covers the work of the Department of Communities and Local Government to make housing more affordable and to deliver more homes, along with studies that we have undertaken with private sector home builders and the construction industry.

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Latest reports in this sector

Advice, guidance and tools

In addition to formal reports to Parliament, we also produce a range of other outputs from our financial audit and VFM work. Examples include:

Using modern methods of construction to build homes more quickly and efficiently

November 2005

This report showed the potential for modern methods of construction to provide good quality homes quickly and efficiently. The NAO also provides guidance on identifying and managing the risks associated with modern methods of construction.

Value for Grant Comparator

2005

The NAO produced a Value for Grant Comparator (2005) to help the Housing Corporation assess the efficiency of the Social Housing Grant. Our report with recommendations to the Housing Corporation is published here.

Value for Grant Comparator (PDF - 146KB)

Getting Value for money from construction projects through design: How auditors can help

2004

This guide has been developed by the NAO, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), and the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), in association with the Audit Commission (2004).

Getting Value for Money from Construction Projects through Design: How Auditors Can Help (PDF - 1.15MB)