Bricks & Mortar
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Will Bain checks in with a UK house builder to see if we are building quickly enough to meet the government target of 1.5 million homes to be built over the next decade. Also we will be hearing from a UK chocolate maker on how they will adapt as the price of cocoa drops due to oversupply. Elsewhere we will hear about the Lunar New Year economy as we welcome the year of the Fire Horse.
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| 0:42.0 | Hello morning, welcome to wake up to money. What is holding house building back? The government |
| 0:46.2 | has this pledge to build one and a half million new homes in England by the end of the decade, |
| 0:50.7 | but there's concerns the target will be missed. We'll be hearing from one firm on some of the reasons why shortly. Also today, we'll take a look at why cocoa prices |
| 0:58.9 | have come crashing down from their all-time highs in 2024 and what it means for the price of |
| 1:03.8 | chocolate. And the lunar new year is upon us, and in Chinese culture, we enter the year of the |
| 1:08.6 | firehorse. This is probably the busiest time of the year. |
| 1:12.6 | We do have like three more times the customer coming into the shop. Yeah, we will be finding out what those |
| 1:18.3 | celebrations mean for businesses around the UK. Wake up to Money with Will Bain. Morning, welcome to |
| 1:24.9 | wake up to money on Tuesday, the 17th of February. |
| 1:27.8 | Just gone at 5 o'clock in the morning. We're with you this morning. Great to have your company, as always, first thing. Yes, we've got more UK data out later on this morning as well, the beginning of the next kind of months run, but it's being so closely watched at the moment, isn't it? Not just by the Bank of England for what's going on with interest rates, but actually at a wider level. The data we're going to get today is about hiring jobs, |
| 1:48.8 | unemployment, wages. So it gives us a pretty good snapshot of what's going on right across the economy |
| 1:54.8 | and whether some of those changes that we've talked about a lot in policy are having an impact |
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