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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 2 - The Untold Story

Seven UK housebuilders to pay £100m to fund affordable homes after CMA investigation

Watchdog found evidence of information sharing linked to prices but firms have not admitted any wrongdoing

The Guardian - UK

Housebuilder Vistry pins hopes on £2bn affordable homes promise as profits fall

Company suspends dividend payouts after shares dip by 8% with profits down by more than a third

The Guardian - UK

Vistry cheers Labour’s affordable homes pledge after profits slump

The housebuilder saw pre-tax profits plunge 64% to £104.9 million in a ‘challenging’ 2024.

Evening Standard

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Vistry avoids another profit warning but sees uncertainty ahead

The firm issued its third profit alert in as many months at the end of last year.

Evening Standard

UK housebuilders to shed light on property market amid Government targets

London-listed construction groups Persimmon, Vistry and Taylor Wimpey will all provide trading updates next week.

The Independent UK

London stocks move higher before Christmas despite weaker housebuilders

The FTSE 100 finished 34.27 points, or 0.42%, higher to end the day at 8,136.99.

Evening Standard

UK housebuilder Vistry’s shares plunge as it issues third profit warning

Business, relegated from the FTSE 100 share index this week, blames delays at developments

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Housebuilder Vistry takes another £50m profit hit amid delays

The group issued its third profit warning since October, and said the last few months had been ‘disappointing’ and ‘challenging’.

The Independent UK

Watch out for the Weirdboyz: Games Workshop on track for FTSE 100

UK miniature wargames maker’s shares have risen by 43% since the start of 2024

The Guardian - UK

FTSE 100 rises as key US inflation gauge shows increase

London’s blue chip index rose slightly on Wednesday with retail and property stocks in the lead.

Evening Standard

London markets slip as housebuilders fall over interest rate worries

London’s top index finished 13.95 points, or 0.17%, lower to end the day at 8,085.07.

The Independent UK

Retailers help drag FTSE 100 to three-month low as firms warn over tax rises

The blue-chip index dropped 68.35 points to close at 8,072.39, the lowest level since early August.

Evening Standard

Shares in housebuilder Vistry plunge as cost overruns hit profits

Firm issues second profit warning in a month after review into ‘understated’ build costs in south division

The Guardian - UK

Vistry warns of extra costs and supply chain hit due to tax changes in Budget

The housebuilder said it is ‘assessing the impact’ of Labour’s autumn Budget in which Chancellor Rachel Reeves raised employer taxes.

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FTSE 100 Live 08 November: British Airways owner IAG soars on results beat, retail stocks struggle

IAG shares soared in the FTSE 100 index today after the British Airways owner reported a bumper summer.

The Guardian - UK

Housebuilder Vistry loses more than £1bn in value after profit warning

FTSE 100 company once known as Bovis Homes says profits will shrink over three years after it underestimated building costs

Evening Standard

Vistry shares crash after disastrous profit warning on building costs

The FTSE-100 developer said it had “recently become aware” of the issue at nine major schemes

The Guardian - UK

Seven years after Grenfell disaster, thousands live in fear of cladding fire

As the final report on the fatal London blaze looms, many developers have not begun safety work

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Private equity behemoth Blackstone and property investor Regis to buy £570m of affordable homes in Vistry deal

The trillion-dollar asset manager Blackstone has become a larger player in the UK’s affordable housing market in recent years

The Guardian - UK

Homelessness charity enters administration after dispute with property fund landlord

Noble Tree Foundation withheld rent from Home Reit, some of whose homes it claimed were ‘unfit to live in’

The Guardian - UK

BA to hire 350 staff at Heathrow to avoid summer chaos – as it happened

Airline expects this summer to be its busiest since the pandemic and will hire people in customer services and ground handling

The Guardian - UK

Housebuilder shares fall as competition watchdog opens investigation; UK retail sales slump eases – as it happened

The CMA has opened an investigation into eight housebuilders following evidence they may be sharing commercially sensitive information.

Fortune

Blackstone head Steve Schwarzman plans to spend billions buying up dorms, warehouses, and data centers across Europe: ‘We have enormous capital and can buy the types of real estate that we like’

The world’s largest owner of commercial real estate is eyeing deals across Europe as interest rates stay high.

Evening Standard

Housebuilder Vistry expects £40 million profit hit, 200 job losses, from closure of private housing arm

The FTSE 250 firm revealed plans to close down its private housebuilding arm last month, as its private sales arm was hit by skyrocketing interest rates

The Guardian - UK

UK building group Vistry to focus solely on social housing

Streamlining operations will result in some job cuts while investors will receive £1bn over next three years

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