Property Industry
Barratt Developments plc
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.
- Sept.04.2020: 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.
Bellway plc
Bovis Homes Group plc
- 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
- 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
Galliford Try plc
SourceWatch, Peter Ventress, Brands, Reports (brand pics)
McCarthy & Stone
Redrow plc
Taylor Wimpey plc
- Sept.04.2020: 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.
Affiliated Organisations
- British Property Federation, British Property Federation, a not-for-profit membership organisation representing companies involved in property ownership and investment. The BPF “work[s] with Government and regulatory bodies to help the real estate industry grow and thrive, to the benefit of [its] members and the economy as a whole.”.[1] It comments regularly on proposed govt policies that will impact its members, including topics such as infrastructure, Build-to-Rent development, and REIT legislation. The BPF operates in Scotland as the Scottish Property Federation from offices in Edinburgh.
- Revo, Revo (organisation), a non-profit professional body and membership organisation in the United Kingdom serving the retail property and placemaking industry.
- National House Building Council (NHBC)
- Local Authority Building Control, Building control body § Organisations
- Building Control Alliance, Building control body § 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.