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Contractors and suppliers ‘positive’ about Vistry price reductions, boss insists
Hundreds of firms have agreed to cut costs with none walking away, says Stephen Teagle
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Crest Nicholson downgrades profit forecast for third time in a year
The £780m-turnover firm has been hit by £13m in “exceptional” costs linked to a fire amid other issues with ”legacy sites”
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Vistry completes round of price cuts with suppliers and says it will beat expected profit figure
Housebuilder asked firms for 10% cuts last October to ‘generate production efficiencies’
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Biodiversity net gain rules delayed again
Regulations now expected to come into force next month
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Taylor Wimpey profit to be at ‘top end’ of forecasts
Housebuilder builds more than 10,800 homes, exceeding previous forecast but down sharply on 2022 numbers
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Stewart Milne’s English construction business set to follow rest of firm into administration
Scottish housebuilder collapsed earlier this week after failing to find buyer
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Persimmon completions rally after strong finish to 2023
Number of homes built last year down a third but firm finished 400 homes more than it predicted
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Modular housing firm set to go into administration
Modulous was set up in 2018 but all staff made redundant late last year after running out of funds
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Gleeson margins to take hit in wake of legacy costs
Housebuilder’s chief executive Graham Prothero blames “older Gleeson” for additional costs that are squeezing profits
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Will biodiversity rules prove a net gain for the housebuilding sector?
From this month, all developments will have to show how they increase biodiversity by 10%. Joey Gardiner examines what the policy means
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Why do we keep missing the government’s housing delivery target?
The housing market is not dysfunctional, it is the planning system that is holding back development, writes Paul Smith
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Gove officially waters down housing targets
Housing secretary vows to “root out” councils “gaming the system” as he unveils long-awaited National Planning Policy Framework
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London mayor failing to provide enough affordable homes, Gove says
If Sadiq Khan cannot deliver the number of homes London needs, then I will, secretary of state insists
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DLUHC targets 8,000 new homes through latest £80m brownfield funding pot
Local authorities encouraged to bid for funds to bring derelict sites back into use
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Top 50 Housebuilders 2023: The calm before the storm
Despite a year of turbulence in the housing sector, the year’s Top 50 rankings largely record the growth period seen before Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini Budget imploded the market last year. Joey Gardiner sees what the numbers say about who’s up and who’s down
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Housing group blasts ‘capitulation to NIMBYs’ as Gove prepares to scrap greenbelt targets
New planning rules expected to be announced this week
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Springfield ‘on track’ to hit expectations but completions fall
Scottish housebuilder aiming to cut debt through land sales as it re-enters affordable housing market
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Government can’t subsidise MMC forever, warns housing minister
Aspirations around modern methods of construction “not yet” achieved, Lee Rowley says
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Profit falls at UK’s largest private housebuilder as inflation sees costs jump
Derbyshire-based Bloor says bottom line and income fell “despite selling additional plots”
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Berkeley halts investment in new development due to planning and regulation concerns
Housebuilder to focus instead on “financial strength” in “volatile and unsupportive” operating environment