Persimmon, which is the UK’s largest housebuilder by market value, has today said it is encouraged by improved sales and a “modest improvement” in lending. It said it expects to market to pick up over the latter half of 2011 and expects prices to rise over the year. The company said it completed 4,439 homes [...]
Persimmon, which is the UK’s largest housebuilder by market value, has today reported a 12% rise in sales reservations in the first three months compared with a year ago. Furthermore, the housebuilder said its order book had risen to £1.14 billion – up from the £565 million at the start of the year. The figures [...]
Persimmon, which is the UK’s largest housebuilder by market value, has announced full-year underlying pre-tax profit jumped to £95.5 million compared with £7 million in the previous year. The company said it sold more homes at higher prices and it is “encouraged” by the group’s performance in the first two months of the year, with [...]
Housebuilder Bovis Homes has today issued a positive trading statement after saying it expects profits to be ahead of expectations for the 2010 year. The company, which is one of the smaller listed housebuilders, said it will also start paying dividends again to shareholders. Many housebuilders took a battering during the housing market slump and [...]
Housebuilder Barratt Developments has issued its first half trading update, delivering a mixed picture. The firm, which is one of the largest housebuilders by volume, said completions fell to 4,832 units from 5,053 in the first half, as private completions dropped. Revenues were unchanged at £875 million but its operating margin grew to 5% from [...]
December’s heavy snowfall had a negative impact on many companies and housebuilder Persimmon was no exception. The housebuilder, which is the UK’s second largest by market value, said sales activity fell by 50% in December but said it had been an encouraging start to the year. The company reported a considerable increase in underlying profits [...]
Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey today said it had experienced a homebuyer slowdown, as a result of the Government’s spending cuts, which has deterred potential buyers. Its comments echo those of Persimmon who yesterday said there was little evidence of the traditional autumn period which usually sees families flock to new housing developments as the school summer [...]
Housebuilder Persimmon today added to the gloom surrounding the housing market after suggesting the lack of mortgage availability continues to prevent a recovery. The housebuilder, which is the UK’s second largest by market value, said that while it experienced a slight improvement in sales in during September – it was not the traditional pick-up noted [...]
House builder, Persimmon, has reported a rise in sales during the six months to the end of June 2010, with legal completions increasing by over 16% compared with a year earlier, to 4,657. Since early May, private sales have slowed down, partly in line with seasonal trends and partly due to uncertainty prior to the [...]
Housebuilder Persimmon has reported that weekly sales volumes have remained consistent since the end of 2009, despite uncertainty regarding the wider economic outlook and the forthcoming General Election. In a trading update covering the period 1st January to 22nd April, the group revealed that the total value of sales (including legal completions) forged ahead by [...]
In a trading update covering 1st July to 16th November 2009, Persimmon has announced that trading activity levels have continued ahead of last year. The group, which includes Charles Church and Westbury, described sales volumes over recent weeks as “satisfactory”, having been maintained from the “encouraging” levels seen in the summer months. In addition, prices [...]
Persimmon has joined Bovis Homes in reporting signs of stabilisation in the UK housing market, with selling prices holding their own across the UK and sales ahead of expectations during the summer months. According to the group, the mortgage market and the downward pressure of valuations on prices have both shown signs of improvement, although [...]
Persimmon has added to signs of recovery in the UK housing market by reporting improved results for the first quarter of 2009. However, chief executive Mike Farley has warned that the market is still fragile, with sales down nearly 30% year-on-year to £960 million. Visitor levels were down 15% compared to a year ago, although [...]
Housebuilder Persimmon has reported that it completed the sale of 10,202 units in 2008, down from 15,905 in 2007. The developer described the short-term outlook for the UK housing market as challenging and expects to record a 42% fall in revenues in 2008, compared with the previous year. Last year, the average selling price of [...]
Persimmon has reported that its cancellation rates have risen to 35%. In an interim statement, the housing developer said that the number of potential buyers who put down deposits of up to £700 on new homes and later withdraw, is now around 20% higher than its pre credit crisis average. Describing trading conditions as having [...]
Housing developer, Persimmon, has reported a 30% fall in sales of new homes in the six months to the end of June. The company sold 5,501 new homes during the period, down from 8,002 in the first half of 2007. Blaming the UK’s shrinking mortgage market for plummeting sales, Persimmon has also revealed that the [...]
Persimmon has joined forces with Halifax to help first-time buyers enter the property market. The housebuilder’s “double your deposit” scheme does exactly what it says as long the funds are used to buy a new Persimmon home. To participate in the offer, a would-be homeowner needs to make regular deposits of up to £5,000 into [...]
Yesterday’s announcement that housebuilder Persimmon has cut around 2,000 jobs since the start of the year has been followed by further gloomy news from Bovis Homes and Redrow, which are also reducing staff numbers. The firms expect to cut 400 and 550 jobs respectively, blaming the losses on the credit crisis and high mortgage costs. [...]
Britain’s largest housebuilder, Persimmon, is calling a halt to all planned developments until mortgage conditions have improved. The company has reported a sharp decline in sales over the past three weeks, despite April traditionally being the busiest time of the year for housebuilders, and has recorded a 24% decline in sales since the beginning of [...]
Gender directive could slash men’s annuity payouts
The EU Gender Directive, which came into force today, could see men losing up to £10,000 from their annuity payouts, according to research by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Under the new rules insurers are no longer allowed to take gender into account when setting annuity rates and premiums on insurance products. Men previously enjoyed higher annuity rates than [...]
Home rental costs down in November
The cost of renting a house in England and Wales fell by 0.4 per cent in November, its first dip since March, according to a survey by LSL Property Services. Average rent was £741m during the month, returning to the level seen in September. However, it was 3.4 per higher than in November last year. [...]
Lloyds TSB halts sale of packaged accounts in branches
Lloyds TSB will stop selling packaged account in its branches from 1 January 2013, until its sales procedures are brought into line with those operated by sister bank The Halifax. Lloyds TSB is one of the main providers of packaged accounts in Britain, with around one in three of its customers choosing to pay fees [...]
Housing market recovery to continue next year
Recent improvements in the housing market should continue into next year, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) Gross lending is estimated to have increased to £12.9 billion in November, helped by the Funding for Lending scheme which provides banks and building societies with lower-cost funding, which they are then supposed to pass on [...]
Newcastle Building Society exits interest-only mortgages
Newcastle Building Society has stopped offering interest-only mortgages to new borrowers, following the lead of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Nationwide, Co-operative bank and Coventry Building Society. The decision will not affect existing Newcastle customers and applications for interest-only mortgages received before 14 December will still be processed. Prior to the credit crunch, interest-only mortgages [...]
Less than half of Brits considered creditworthy
Fifty-seven per cent of UK adults are at risk of having an application for credit turned down by a mainstream lender according to a new report. The ‘Mind the Credit Gap‘ report commissioned by aqua credit cards suggests that even people with a good credit rating and earning more than £50,000 could have a credit [...]
Monthly incomes £22 lower in 2012
The average monthly income of UK households fell by £22 in real terms compared with last year, according to a survey carried out for the Bank of England (BoE) by NMG Consulting. People on lower incomes have seen their income eroded more than higher earners and households still have high levels of debt the BoE [...]
Savers dig deep to fund Christmas
New research from the Halifax suggests that savers are funding their Christmas spending with money set aside for other purposes. Thirty-seven per cent of 2,138 savers surveyed by the bank at the end of November had withdrawn savings in the last three months. The average amount withdrawn was £1,186, more than double the average savings [...]
Financial data at risk from unsafe passwords
According to a survey by the Payments Council the problem of having to remember a different password for several accounts means that many internet users are compromising the security of their financial data. Internet users have 22 password-protected accounts on average and many use the same log-in details for more than one account, even though [...]
Wonga launches Paylater loans on retailer website
Payday loan company Wonga has launched a new Paylater service on furniture firm Cotswold Company’s website. The service, which allows customers to “buy now, pay later” will be introduced on other retailers’ sites in the near future. Although the Paylater branding is similar to Wonga’s, the Wonga name only appears in the small print. A [...]
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