Building Weekly Digest: 16 December
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It's the final instalment of our LinkedIn digest for the year. The December digital and print edition came out today with the cover - and many pages - devoted Top 150 Contractors & Housebuilders league tables and analysis. And in other exciting news our sister title Housing Today launched a new data service called Housing Today Boardroom. You can find out all about it below.
December issue is out!
In our final edition for the year we delve into the Top 150 Contractors & Housebuilders - looking at all the data and analysing the state of the markets. (You can read all about it below). We also published two opposing views in the high-profile debate around M&S's Marble Arch store, explored whether investment in energy security can support the UK's net zero goals, spoke to Glencar's founders about how the warehouse market has developed, and homed in on Bankside Yards and whether it presents a new net zero solution for London.
Top 150 Contractors & Housebuilders
We end this roller-coaster of a year on a high with a positive set of results coming from our?top 150 contractors and housebuilders league tables. The headline figure is that total turnover for the firms in the rankings increased by an average 18%, and much of the growth appears to have been driven by the housebuilders. Our analysis shows that the UK’s 50 biggest housebuilders in the tables turned over ￡38.6bn, an increase from ￡31.8bn the previous year. What is more, they created ￡5.6bn of operating profit at an 11.7% margin – up from 7.8%. You can explore all the coverage below.
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Housing Today Boardroom launches
Our sister title Housing Today this week launched its Housing Today Boardroom. It is a?brand new service?that will enable you to?benchmark key trends?in housing development, access industry?analytics and insights,?browse 100s of developments?and?development leaders?and?connect?with peers?to?discuss common challenges and opportunities. You can check it out here
Finally we'd love to say a huge thank you to everyone who has subscribed to our LinkedIn newsletter in 2022 - we are so thrilled in the way this community has grown in the past few months and can't wait to get back to it in the New Year.