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Barratt Developments

  • Barratt: Rising mortgage costs could hit its profits as house prices slide

    house builders

    Barratt Developments said the outlook for 2023 was ‘uncertain’ as rising mortgage costs force residential property sales down. The FTSE 100 listed house builder said demand for its homes in 2023 looks “uncertain” due to prospective home buyers shunning big ticket purchases amid a cost of living and mortgage affordability squeeze. Mortgage costs have been [...]

  • Housebuilder Barratt warns volatility is clouding outlook

    Barratt

    Housebuilder Barratt Developments warned that economic volatility was clouding the picture for the year ahead today but doubled down on profit targets for the remainder of the year.

  • Banks and housebuilders bear brunt of market chaos

    markets

    Wild swings in UK debt markets and concern over borrowers’ capacity to pay costlier mortgages have whacked London-listed housebuilders and banks this week. Britain’s biggest property developers have been among the hardest hit listed companies during this week’s market sell-off. FTSE 100-listed construction firms Taylor Wimpey and Barratt Developments have shed more than 20 per [...]

  • Housebuilder Barratt shares slide despite pandemic recovery and £5.2bn revenue

    September 7, 2022

    Housebuilder Barratt Developments’ shares slid this morning despite its construction output recovering to pre-pandemic levels and a rosy revenue of £5.26bn. The FTSE-listed housebuilder’s annual results coincided with a caution from Halifax today, warning of a housing market slowdown amid the cost of living crisis, soaring energy bills and rising mortgage interest rates. Completions climbed [...]

  • Terrible Thursday for Barratt as energy prices and inflation take their toll on Britain’s biggest housebuilder

    July 14, 2022

    Barratt Developments revealed this a.m. the company is facing a rise in build costs of up to 10 per cent as soaring energy prices and inflation take their toll. Britain’s biggest housebuilder said build cost increases have escalated to between 9 per cent and 10 per cent, up from around 6 per cent over the [...]

  • City veteran John Allan prepares to step down as Barratt chair

    June 4, 2022

    Titan housebuilder Barratt is planning to begin a search for a new chairman, with City grandee John Allan to step down. According to reports by Sky News, Allan, who also chairs the country’s largest supermarket, Tesco, is readying to hand over the reins of the construction giant. Barratt has reportedly asked headhunters at Russell Reynolds [...]

  • Housebuilders’ share prices plunge as government cracks down on cladding crisis

    January 10, 2022

    Homebuilders’ share prices tumbled on Monday as the government said it was prepared to force developers to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding.  Housing minister Michael Gove has handed builders a March deadline to agree a plan to protect leaseholders who cannot sell their homes due to their fire defects. Leaseholders have called on [...]

  • Barratt remains on track with steady customer reservations

    October 13, 2021

    UK residential property developer Barratt Developments is on track to deliver its targets for the medium term as well as for FY2022, after registering a steady customer demand between 1 July and 10 October. “The positive start to the new financial year has continued in recent weeks with private reservations remaining strong,” said Barratt’s chief [...]

  • Almost all UK housebuilders’ revenues fell as fewer homes built during covid

    July 13, 2021

    Only one of the biggest housebuilders in Britain has seen an increase in its revenue and built more homes in 2020, new research shows. The latest research from Warwick Estates has revealed that Vistry Group was the only major house builder which saw improved performance in terms of the number of houses delivered, and in revenue. The [...]

  • Finance boss at Countryside leaves housebuilder to head to rival Barratt

    June 29, 2021

    Mike Scott has resigned from housebuilder Countryside in order to take up the role of chief financial officer (CFO) at UK rival Barratt Developments. Both UK housebuilders simultaneously announced the move this morning, which sees Scott end a seven-year stint at Countryside, in which he oversaw the group’s IPO in 2016 and acquisition of Westleigh [...]

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