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    • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
      Competition & Markets Authority
      Competition watchdog closes leasehold probe into Barratt Homes

      CMA cites insufficient evidence for case against housebuilder over ground rents

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      Vistry Group PLC
      Vistry stays upbeat on robust demand for new homes

      UK homebuilder forecasts full-year profit to be at top end of guidance even as economic woes intensify

    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
      Berkeley Group Holdings PLC
      Supply of new-build London housing could halve, says Berkeley chief

      Rising construction costs and development taxes to worsen already severe crunch

    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      Goldman-backed housebuilder to build Europe’s largest home factory in the UK

      Modular housing developer TopHat says facility will be able to produce 4,000 homes a year

    • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
      UK demand for new homes outstrips supply despite economic outlook

      Housebuilders Crest Nicholson and Bellway upbeat on their prospects

    • Monday, 13 June, 2022
      Mergers & Acquisitions
      Countryside up for sale after shareholder pressure

      UK housebuilder starts sales process just weeks after rejecting bid from US fund

    • Monday, 6 June, 2022
      LexCountryside Properties
      Countryside/In-Cap: friendly capitalism goes hostile in pursuit of housebuilder Premium content

      Board should push for higher bid despite the company lacking a permanent chief or turnround plan

    • Monday, 30 May, 2022
      Countryside Properties
      US investor launches £1.5bn bid for Countryside

      Jeffrey Ubben’s In-Cap goes public after board of UK housebuilder rebuffs offer twice

    • Sunday, 29 May, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Help to Buy application deadline brought forward by 2 months

      Home buyers using government scheme will have to reserve properties by end of October

    • Friday, 13 May, 2022
      Edwin Heathcote
      Channelling the Nimby spirit won’t fix Britain’s housing problems

      Government proposals allowing residents to vote on new developments are full of holes

    • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
      Gove drops radical reform of England’s planning system

      Critics say bill outlining more modest overhaul will not enable sufficient new house building

    • Monday, 2 May, 2022
      UK social housing
      Boris Johnson seeks to revive ‘Right to Buy’ plans for housing association tenants

      Prime minister keen to shift public focus away from ‘partygate’ scandal ahead of Thursday’s local elections

    • Friday, 22 April, 2022
      News in-depthUK politics & policy
      English cities warn ‘unrealistic’ housing targets threaten economic growth

      Government home-building pledge creating ‘poisonous’ choice between job creation and residential building, say councils

    • Saturday, 9 April, 2022
      Lex
      UK housebuilders: reeling shares reflect more than remediation costs Premium content

      Provisions are manageable but are compounded by rising mortgage rates, the cost of living and war in Ukraine

    • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
      UK developers edge towards cladding deal with government

      Several housebuilders sign pledge to carry out fire safety work on mid-rise blocks in wake of Grenfell tragedy

    • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
      Barratt Developments PLC
      Housing demand still running high, says developer Barratt

      End of UK government support schemes has not damped sales of new homes

    • Monday, 7 February, 2022
      Taylor Wimpey PLC
      Taylor Wimpey appoints first female chief, rebuffing Elliott’s push for outsider

      Operations director Jennie Daly will take over from Pete Redfern in April

    • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
      News in-depthUK politics & policy
      Tory cladding shift leaves relations with UK developers in tatters

      Government’s demand on builders to help pay for post-Grenfell fixes threatens to undermine England’s housing targets

    • Monday, 17 January, 2022
      Construction sector
      Hundreds of UK construction businesses collapse every month

      Companies hit by rising costs and shortage of skilled workers

    • Thursday, 13 January, 2022
      Countryside Properties
      Countryside chief steps down as housebuilder misses out on boom

      Iain McPherson’s departure comes after sharp drop in profits in final three months of last year

    • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Developers should pay to fix unsafe cladding

      Michael Gove is right to insist that property builders have responsibility

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      Grenfell Tower disaster
      Gove attempt to fix UK cladding crisis looks set to end up in court

      Campaigners warn forcing builders to pay £4bn bill leaves many leaseholders footing cost of fixing other safety issues

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      Helen Thomas
      UK government’s plan won’t fix cladding scandal

      It is right that leaseholders should not pay but the scope of the crisis remains unclear four-and-a-half years after Grenfell

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      Developers resist Gove plans to meet bill for fixing cladding crisis

      Property companies say they are being singled out to face £4bn burden to tackle fire safety on thousands of buildings

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      Help to Buy has pushed up house prices in England, says report

      Lords claim flagship £29bn policy would have been better spent on social housing

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