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The top ten housebuilders build more than a third of the country’s new homes each year. Allison Heller profiles the industry’s ten leading men, at the helm of businesses that have managed to stay at the top of the list again, following a year in which a n

South bound

Country && Metropolitan has moved north to get away from premium housing and into low cost homes. The firm is now turning its attention south again to try to bring affordable homes to that hungry market. Chief executive Stephen Wicks tells Steve Menary ab

See-through service

Miller Homes managing director Tim Hough will be telling the Housing Market Intelligence conference that the industry needs freedom of information when it comes to customer care surveys. He thinks it is time for independent and transparent research into t

The Top 25 Housebuilders

[MMC-IMG=1011-A=Left] Britain’s top 25 housebuilders between them build more than 94,000 homes a year and more than 60% of all private new homes. Almost 70% of these homes are now built on brownfield sites. These companies directly employ more than 35,000

Quicker to say “no”

Research carried out for this year’s Housing Market Intelligence report shows that, although planning decisions are being made quicker, it is taking just as long to win approval. This, says Brian Green, is because it is quicker to say “no”

Innovate to accumulate

George Wimpey boss Peter Johnson will be giving “the chief executive’s view” to the Housing Market Intelligence conference next week. Here he gives Steve Menary a taste of the issues that he sees as important for the industry

Fortunes fluctuate

Brian Green looks at market conditions, the regions and the performance of the top housebuilders and explains why despite unpredictable market fluctuations during the past year, the top firms are in as healthy shape as ever