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 · Jun 4, 2024
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. The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2024
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. Fortune · Nov 28, 2023
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 Evening Standard · Oct 23, 2023
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 The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2023
Housebuilder Vistry to cut jobs as it focuses solely on affordable housing partnerships Vistry posted resilient first-half results, mainly thanks to the strength of its affordable housing partnership divisions Evening Standard · Sep 11, 2023
Nottinghamshire County Council to spend £4m so Top Wighay construction can begin More than 800 houses have already been given outline planning consent for the site Nottingham Post · May 15, 2023
Construction of new Salisbury homes starts with plans for 640 properties Vistry Group acquired the Wiltshire site earlier this year, with the housebuilder saying its interest in buying the land stretched back 10 years Birmingham Post · Apr 24, 2023
All in this together? Not if you are on a chief executive’s pay City Voices: FTSE bosses pay just keeps rising Evening Standard · Apr 14, 2023
Investigation launched after incident on Birtley construction site Emergency services were called to a construction site in Birtley on Tuesday afternoon Chronicle Live · Mar 22, 2023
Developer working on 200 new homes in Wadebridge Cornwall Vistry Group, which builds Bovis and Linden properties, is currently working on the housing project in Wadebridge Birmingham Post · Feb 7, 2023
Vistry builds up profits as demand for affordable homes stays high Vistry last year completed a £1.1 billion acquisition of Countryside Partnerships, which significantly increased its affordable homes division Evening Standard · Jan 18, 2023
Land for 640 homes near Salisbury bought by housebuilder Vistry Group said it had been interested in acquiring the site for a decade Birmingham Post · Jan 17, 2023
Vistry achieves board gender parity with managing director appointment Emma Colin will oversee the delivery of new properties for Bovis and Linden homes in the West of England and Wales Birmingham Post · Dec 20, 2022
The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2022 Early medieval female burial site is ‘most significant ever discovered’ in UK Find dating from about 650AD in Northamptonshire includes jewelled necklace and changed archaeologists’ view of the period
Evening Standard · Sep 5, 2022 Further signs of cooling housing market after Countryside Properties accepts lower Vistry offer In June, Countryside rejected an unsolicited offer from Inclusive Capital that valued the firm at £1.5 billion
The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2022 UK housebuilders Vistry Group and Countryside to merge in £1.3bn deal Former Bovis Homes snaps up smaller rival after campaign by two US activist investors
Birmingham Post · Jun 16, 2022 150 new Gloucestershire homes planned for former RAF site Construction firm Vistry has bought land at Kingsway Village, where it is already building 80 homes under its Linden Homes brand
The Independent UK · Apr 7, 2022 More housebuilders face bumper costs over cladding remediation pledges Bellway, Countryside and Vistry have become the latest companies to sign up to the Government pledge to replace potentially dangerous cladding.
Evening Standard · Apr 6, 2022 House builders Redrow and MJ Gleeson join rivals in backing Gove’s cladding plans The Government has won its battle to get developers to pay to fix cladding on three decades worth of buildings.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2022 UK house price boom brings Persimmon windfall of nearly £1bn Housebuilder predicts prices will rise further despite cautioning Ukraine war could disrupt economy