Property developer Barratt Homes has followed rival Redrow in reporting a substantial loss for 2008. The company blames falling property prices, a shortage of mortgage funding and writedowns on the value of its land bank for a pre-tax loss of £592.4 million, compared with a profit of £192.4 million in 2007. The group’s average selling price for [...]
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