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Persimmon PLC

  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    LexUK housebuilding
    How politics might help Legal & General’s housebuilding sale Premium content

    Persimmon’s reported interest in Cala Group, an L&G arm, could make sense for all involved

  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    UK housebuilding
    UK watchdog opens probe into 8 housebuilders over information sharing

    ‘Complex and unpredictable planning system’ to blame for building shortage, says Competition and Markets Authority

    A digger passes a partly completed home
  • Wednesday, 10 January, 2024
    Persimmon sells more homes than expected as mortgage rates ease

    FTSE 250 housebuilder says it sold nearly 10,000 new homes in 2023 but warns of uncertain year ahead

    A house in Colchester, UK, with a Persimmon-branded sign in front of it
  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    Property sector
    UK housing market braced for make-or-break spring

    The first months of the year are typically estate agents and housebuilders’ busiest time for sales

  • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
    Lex
    Persimmon: UK housebuilder is trading close to trough valuations Premium content

    One of the country’s largest builders of new homes looks like a recovery play

    A worker secures wood roofing trusses on a Persimmon residential property
  • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
    Persimmon warns new home sales may fall 40% on current trends

    Market slowed sharply last year after lenders raised rates in response to disastrous UK mini-Budget

    A digger passes a partly completed home on a Persimmon Plc residential property construction site in Harlow, UK
  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    UK housebuilding
    UK housebuilders in retreat amid property downturn

    Developers cut back on buying land in effort to ride out weaker market

    A show home on a Taylor Wimpey residential housing construction site in Maldon
  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
    Persimmon cuts dividend as housing sales tumble

    Shares slide after housebuilder warns of ‘increased uncertainty’ and higher taxes

    A roofer works on a Persimmon housing construction site
  • Saturday, 21 August, 2021
    Investments
    Investors’ Chronicle: Hochschild Mining, Persimmon, Goodwin

    Companies analysis from our sister publication

  • Wednesday, 18 August, 2021
    Persimmon says UK housing market returning to normal

    Seasonal patterns starting to resume after disruption caused by lockdowns, government stimulus and lifestyle changes

    A Persimmon building site
  • Wednesday, 23 June, 2021
    UK housebuilding
    Aviva and Persimmon to change leasehold terms after UK watchdog probe

    Competition and Markets Authority had warned of potential breaches of consumer protection law

    A worker places a sold sign on a house at a Persimmon residential construction site
  • Wednesday, 10 February, 2021
    LombardProperty sector
    Housebuilders won’t be fazed by the cladding outcry

    Reparations for high-rise flats are reputation management; silence is golden for buyout fund target Equiniti

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    Persimmon sales slow as end of stamp duty holiday nears

    Changes to UK government’s Help to Buy subsidy scheme also expected to dampen property market

    A bricklayer puts cement on bricks at a Persimmon housing site in Grays, Essex
  • Tuesday, 10 November, 2020
    Property sector
    Property groups reinstate dividends despite pandemic hit

    Landsec and Persimmon announce payouts as they point to robust performances

    In central London, which constitutes more than two-thirds of Landsec’s portfolio by value, 99% of office rent had been collected in the six months to September
  • Friday, 4 September, 2020
    Competition & Markets Authority
    UK opens enforcement action against housebuilders over leaseholds

    Watchdog names Persimmon, Barratt, Countryside and Taylor Wimpey in potential mis-selling probe

    Workers at a Countryside Properties construction site in Chelmsford. The CMA said it had written to housebuilders ‘outlining its concerns and requiring information’
  • Tuesday, 18 August, 2020
    Persimmon to restore dividend even as profits sink 43%

    Housebuilder’s order book has swollen despite the pandemic

  • Friday, 24 July, 2020
    Financials
    Outgoing boss of housebuilder Persimmon sells down

    Chief executive Dave Jenkinson cuts stake as he prepares to step down after just over a year in the role

  • Thursday, 9 July, 2020
    Persimmon raises rebound hopes with strong forward sales

    Homebuilder buoyed as activity on building sites returns to normal levels

  • Saturday, 27 June, 2020
    Inside LondonBryce Elder
    Are UK housebuilders really on solid foundations?

    Market faces obvious strains, but analysts are almost uniformly bullish

  • Wednesday, 24 June, 2020
    LombardRetail sector
    Landlords pay the price for JD Sports’ empire building

    Leases put to torch; National Express boss hops on Persimmon bus; Naked Wine’s ambition

  • Wednesday, 24 June, 2020
    Persimmon picks National Express boss Dean Finch as new CEO

    Appointment comes as Covid-19 crisis disrupts UK housebuilding industry

  • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
    UK companies
    FTSE bosses back on full pay after pandemic wage cuts

    Foxtons, Severn Trent, Persimmon and others reinstate chiefs’ salaries as wave of job cuts hits Britain

  • Monday, 11 May, 2020
    LombardCat Rutter Pooley
    For housebuilders, this time really should be different

    Construction groups on stronger footings; bell tolls for Dignity; copper-tinged Barrick Gold

    Socially-distanced building sites pose all sorts of logistical challenges
  • Thursday, 27 February, 2020
    Persimmon announces boss to step down after just over year in job

    Dave Jenkinson will leave in wake of report that criticised quality of company’s homes

  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2020
    UK housebuilding
    UK housebuilders optimistic but quality concerns linger

    Persimmon and Vistry to continue focus on customer satisfaction

    A bricklayer uses a spirit level to check a wall on flats being built on a Persimmon construction site. Persimmon said to improve quality, it was restricting the release of new homes for sale in higher demand areas until construction was at a more advanced stage.
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