I think that brands are increasingly importantly in life. When we choose our clothes, our cars, our computers, brands are pre-eminent in our thinking.

Primark, Prada or American Apparel; there’ a plethora of consumer brands, yet there are so few of them in housing.

We were obviously very pleased then that Urban Splash has been referred to in publications like the Cool Brands Guide and this week again when we were included in Business Week’s list of brands which ‘make Manchester Greater‘.

We were thrilled to be put alongside big names including Manchester United, The Co-Operative, Umbro and that other team from Manchester…