Housebuilders in focus amid Labour’s planning reforms push August 10, 2025 UK housebuilders will be in sharp focus as the sector grapples with construction woes, despite the Government ploughing ahead with plans to stimulate more building. Persimmon and Balfour Beatty will announce their half-year results on Wednesday, and Bellway will provide a trading update on Tuesday. York-based developer Persimmon said in May that forward sales – [...]
Optimism on construction boom lifts housebuilder stocks June 11, 2025 Shares in the UK’s major housebuilders have all risen in the past five days as news of government investment buoys the chances of a construction market boom. Vistry and Crest, which have recently boosted their focus on affordable homes, were particular winners: Vistry has risen by more than 20 per cent since June 6, while [...]
Bellway: Completions surge at FTSE 250 housebuilder June 10, 2025 Bellway has said it expects to see a surge in home completions amid an increase in consumer confidence and reservation rates. The FTSE 250 housebuilder and property developer said it was well-positioned to deliver cumulative volume growth of 20 per cent over the two years to end July 2026. In a trading update, the Newcastle-based [...]
UK dividends slump in 2025 after cuts from Vodafone and Burberry April 28, 2025 UK dividends totalled just £14bn in the first quarter of 2024, a 4.6 per cent decline from last year, thanks to major cuts from key companies like Vodafone and Burberry. While regular dividends only fell by 0.2 per cent, a 3.3 percentage point drop in special dividends dragged down the figure, data from Computershare revealed. [...]
Bellway’s profit jumps amid soaring output March 25, 2025 Bellway has reported a 12 per cent rise in profit, alongside a significant boost in its output – in an indication that the housebuilding sector is seeing a rebound. Profit before taxation has risen to £150.2m, from £134.2m last year. The firm reported 4,577 housing completions in the half-year to January – up from 4,092 [...]
Bellway: Housebuilder in recovery as share price ‘at odds’ with performance February 11, 2025 Housebuilder Bellway reported strong growth in home completions over the last six months, which analysts have said could be a sign the wider homebuilding sector is set for a recovery. The company reported an 11.9 per cent uptick in housing completions in the six months ended 31 January, with more than 4,500 properties completed with [...]
Ibstock: Housebuilding is recovering, but rebuilding supply chains will take time October 17, 2024 Building supplies company Ibstock has said that it has seen early indications of a positive trend in the UK’s housing market, but a full recovery in end markets won’t happen soon. It said that it saw new-build residential activity improving, but that it “expect[s] this to take time to feed through into sustainably stronger demand [...]
Bellway profit craters but shares jump on strong look-ahead October 15, 2024 Despite a significant drop in completions and profit, housebuilder Bellway has said it is well-positioned to deliver growth going forward and supports the Government’s plan to unlock housing construction. Shares surged by more than eight per cent in early trades. Bellway told markets this morning that profit fell by 44.6 per cent in the year [...]
Fears over cladding costs behind Bellway’s decision to drop Crest bid September 8, 2024 London-listed housebuilder Bellway has cited fears of Crest Nicholson's bulging bill to fix hazardous cladding as its reasoning for pulling out of its £720m takeover deal.
Mark Kleinman: Britain’s fibre infrastructure proves hard to digest August 22, 2024 Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City A.M. column. Today, he looks at the UK’s altnet sector, a jilted housebuilder and Thames Water’s leaky boardroom. Britain’s fibre infrastructure proves hard to digest Time to hang up? That’s the way many investors feeling about [...]