Property Industry

From WikiCorporates
(Redirected from McCarthy & Stone)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
ToDo: Explain exactly how the Help to Buy scheme is funnelling money into house builders' pockets.


Barratt Developments plc

Barratt-Developments-horiz.svg

Barratt Developments is one of the largest residential property development companies in the UK, and is principally engaged in acquiring and developing land, planning, designing and constructing residential property developments and selling them. The company operates through two segments:

  • Housebuilding: brands include Barratt Homes, David Wilson Homes and Barratt London. Barratt Homes focuses on providing homes for first time buyers and families, offering a range of properties.
  • Commercial development: Wilson Bowden Developments is the Company’s commercial development arm focused on retail, leisure, office, industrial and mixed-use schemes. Projects range from single sites to industrial developments, office parks and major town center regeneration projects.

Bellway plc

Bellway is a major UK residential property developer based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Incorporated in 1946, Bellway has grown from a family-owned housebuilding business in Newcastle upon Tyne to become the 4th largest volume housebuilding group in the UK, constructing and selling 140,000+ homes over the past 70 years.
  • Customer Sites operated by Bellway Homes Ltd, OpenCorporates-sm.svg
  • Corporate Site operated by Bellway plc, OpenCorporates-sm.svg

Bovis Homes Group plc

Bovis Homes is a 2nd tier national British housebuilding company based in Kent. Reports
  • Apr.20.2018: Developers ‘must stop taking buyers for granted’. Sajid Javid intervened yesterday in the debate over construction standards at new-build developments to say it was “not acceptable” that some companies were “letting down their customers”. Govt proposals published this year introduce a single Housing Ombudsman to deal with disputes and to name the worst offenders. Rob Wilson, former Tory minister for Civil Society, said: “The govt has to take action to ensure the inspection regime is much more rigorous and that building standards are fully and properly adhered to. Inspectors don’t appear to be doing a proper job in terms of signing off houses. There is so much focus politically on building new housing, sometimes the quality suffers. The way housing companies have behaved is absolutely appalling.” Clive Betts, chairman of the Housing Select Committee, also called on the govt to introduce reforms. Andrew Ellson, The Times.
  • Apr.19.2018: Bovis dream homes turn into nightmares. Hundreds of Bovis customers say they are living a nightmare after encountering problems that the company has failed to fix. Andrew Ellson, The Times.
  • Apr.19.2018: Buyers in despair at badly built new homes. One of Britain’s biggest housebuilders is misleading buyers and “deliberately” delaying essential repairs to poorly built homes. Bovis Homes, which builds about 3,500 properties a year, has also been accused of failing adequately to repair defects and engaging in “underhand behaviour” such as gagging clauses to limit bad publicity. Kirstie Allsopp, presenter of the Channel 4 property programme Location, Location, Location, warned homebuyers off new-build properties. Almost 3,000 people have joined the Facebook group "Bovis Homes Victims. The victims group is building a website. However, Bovis had already registered the web address bovishomesvictimsgroup.com. Bovis, which has made more than £650m profit in the past five years, said it had invested in improving build quality and service recently, and became the first big builder to establish a panel to work directly with customers. Andrew Ellson, Sam Blanchard, The Times.

Countryside Properties plc

Countryside-Properties.svg
Countryside Properties is a UK-based house builder, primarily operating in London and the South East of England. Its estate regeneration projects take place through Private Finance Initiative schemes, with local authorities and housing associations. Countrywise operates through two divisions:
  • Housebuilding: develops medium to larger-scale sites, providing private housing on private land, primarily around London and in the South East of England. The Housebuilding division operates under both the Countryside and Millgate brands.
  • Partnerships: engaged in medium to larger-scale urban regeneration of public sector land delivering private homes. The Partnerships division operates primarily in and around London and in the North West of England.

Competition watchdog takes enforcement action over leaseholds. The Competition & Markets Authority has launched enforcement action against four of the UK’s leading housing developers – Barratt Developments plc, Persimmon plc, Taylor Wimpey and Countryside Properties – after it found evidence that leasehold homeowners and prospective buyers were being misled and charged excessive fees. Mark Sweney, The Guardian, Sept.04.2020.

Crest Nicholson Holdings plc

Crest Nicholson is a leading residential developer operating in the Southern half of England with an emphasis on creating well designed homes in sustainable communities. The Group has a wide product range, varying from homes for first time buyers through to large family homes, and includes a mixture of houses, apartments and supporting commercial premises as part of its larger developments. Reports

Galliford Try plc

Galliford Try is a British construction company registered in Uxbridge, London. The company was created in 2000 through a merger of Try Group plc, founded by WS Try in 1908 in London, and Galliford plc, founded by Thomas Galliford in 1916. ... loads of acquisitions ...

SourceWatch, Peter Ventress, Brands, Reports (brand pics)

McCarthy & Stone

McCarthy & Stone is a retirement housebuilder. The company operates from nine regional offices, and is responsible for building and selling more than 70% of the UK’s owner-occupied retirement housing each year.

Products, AR-2017, Reports

Redrow plc

Redrow.svg
Redrow plc is one of the largest British housebuilders, with a network of 14 operational divisions across the UK. It is based in Flintshire and employs 2,200 people.

Taylor Wimpey plc

Taylor-Wimpey.svg
Taylor Wimpey (formerly Taylor Woodrow plc) is one of the largest British-based housebuilding companies. Its operational headquarters in the UK are in High Wycombe. The company was created from the merger of rivals Taylor Woodrow and George Wimpey in Jul.2007.

Affiliated Organisations

Articles

  • Jun.05.2018: The UK's 50 biggest landowners revealed. Slide 1 of 51: Ever wondered who or what has the biggest portfolio of land in the UK? Britain's biggest landowners include well-heeled aristocrats, govt departments, renowned institutions, foreign investors and more. Counting down from the 50th to the largest landowner of them all, we spill the beans on the people and organisations that really own the country. Daniel Coughlin, MSN Money.
  • mid-2018: WHO REALLY OWNS THE UK? Becoming a landlord or simply owning a portfolio of property is the dream for many in the UK. It’s easy to see why, as there is plenty of money to be made with the right investments. This is illustrated by the fact that there were over 750,000 property millionaires in Britain as of the start of 2018. ABC Finance Ltd.