All Taylor Wimpey articles
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NewsTaylor Wimpey remains cautious despite industry’s ‘Boris bounce’ hopes
Housebuilder says 2019 margins have been hit by slowdown in London and South east
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Higher build costs hit Taylor Wimpey’s bottom line
Margins fall to 18% at country’s second biggest housebuilder
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Taylor Wimpey sees 6% profit hike
Housebuilder’s pre-tax profit rises to £858m as it says Help to Buy winding down is a good thing
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Galliard Homes buys chunk of Nine Elms Park site for £22m
Plot on site of former Royal Mail operation will host more than 260 homes
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Brexit uncertainty makes Taylor Wimpey cautious on 2019 outlook
Housebuilder set to see sales and profit rise but consumer confidence remains a concern
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Bouygues starts work on Mount Pleasant resi scheme
Taylor Wimpey appointed firm to build phase one of project on site of old Royal Mail sorting office
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Ending Help to Buy 'in the best interests' of the market, says Taylor Wimpey
Housebuilder says it believes the changes are “appropriate”
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Vince Cable demands cap on housebuilders' bonuses
Lib Dem leader says senior executives are profiting from Help To Buy activity
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Government threatens developers with cladding fines
Firms failing to remove risky material face fines, legal sanctions and losing out on government contracts
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Mud flies as council rows with housebuilders over 'wrong kind of soil'
Scottish authority says soil Taylor Wimpey delivered for primary school job was ‘unsuitable’
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Lovell raids Galliford Try for new finance chief
Steve Breslin spent four years at firm’s partnerships arm
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Housebuilder bonuses: have bosses lost the plot?
This week saw housebuilder Bovis Homes give 95,000 shares to chief executive David Ritchie in place of a cash bonus. The £282m turnover housebuilder said a cash bonus would be “inappropriate” given the state of the market. In a week when the Association of British Insurers made rumblings about the ...
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Good news on the planning front – rejections fall and applications for new homes rise
The data published today on planning applications on the face of it should provide house builders and their suppliers with some comfort. The figures show that in the final quarter of last year the number of planning decisions for major residential developments – those with 10 or more homes – ...
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Forecasters call the bottom of the house price slump
The increasing stretch of stable house prices is leading forecasters to call the bottom of the slump. The Nationwide late last month tentatively said it may be time to think the unthinkable that house prices may exit 2009 higher than they entered it. Last week much was made of ...
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Taylor Wimpey update update
There is a degree of uncertainty surrounding the date of Taylor Wimpey's next trading update - but what can we read into it? While Persimmon brought theirs forward this week and Barratt and Redrow are pencilled in the diary for November, there is no word from TW on a ...
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A week is a long time in housebuilding
This week's news that £254m-turnover David McLean had fallen into administration sent reverberations around the industry because it was the biggest construction faller yet in the credit crunch. Administrator Deloitte will wind up the contracting arm and plans to sell off its housing developments; all very sensible so far. Presumably ...
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Chris Rickard into the breach
Taylor Wimpey is keeping new finance director Chris Rickard firmly under wraps at the moment. It's probably a wise move; he has better things to do than meet the City or talk to the press. Like steer the housebuilder towards the safe haven of a refinancing deal . He comes ...
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Britons £500 billion poorer as house prices fall
I thought it might be interesting to put the latest Nationwide house price data and the recent land write downs made by Taylor Wimpey into a different context. I'd say for fun, but the real consequences are far from funny to a lot of people. So here is ...
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Media plays down housing crisis - 160,000 house building jobs to go
Not a headline you might expect. And let's hope the house building industry doesn't shed 160,000 jobs, but it is looking ever more likely. First let's get one thing out of the way. The media is blamed for hyping the crisis we now find ourselves in. To hold that view ...
