The 2006 Private Housebuilding Annual is a comprehensive survey of the corporate side of the UK housebuilding industry and includes:

• Richard Donnell of Hometrack points to the stretched affordability in the housing market
  
  
• Alastair Stewart of Dresdner Kleinwort warns of the risk of full year profits downgrades and suggests a volatile prospect ahead for housebuilding shares
  
  
• Industry structure. League table of more than 100 housebuilders' unit sales, from over 10,000 to under 100 a year, with comment on who is coming up, who is in decline. Top ten market share continues to decline
  
  
• Corporate activity - the mergers, acquisitions and buy-outs, and who may be next. The Fairclough and Westbury deals may have dominated the headlines, but the smaller family-owned companies continue to extract high prices from their larger quoted competitors
  
  
• Analysis of comparative performance of the quoted companies - profit margins, return on capital, balance sheet structure
  
  
• The rise of the national housebuilder - two new books offer a corporate history of British housebuilders spanning the twentieth century. League tables are taken back to the 1930s; corporate growth and decline are both examined
  
  
• Appendix: Statistics on over 100 leading housebuilders: A half page per company includes unit sales; financial performance; land bank; address; website; telephone; managing director [sample of Appendix]
  
  

"It is the most thumbed document in the Housebuilder office ... required reading and reference material."     Housebuilder, September 2002

"Comprehensive report on state of play of housing market"     Building, August 2005

Price: £97; concessionary price to full members of the House Builders Federation: £80. Post-free in the UK.

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