The UK HOUSE BUILDING Market Report 2002

INTRODUCTION and OVERVIEW?

Consolidation activity amongst leading house builders has renewed interest in the house building market, and the second edition of this report focuses on the characteristics, recent developments and leading suppliers to the sector. The report concentrates on the key organisations within the house building market and provides a comprehensive review of the major aspects of the new house building sector.

Key areas in the report:

• Review of House builders - analysis of major house builders, volumes, market shares, positioning, key house building indicators since 1997, recent corporate activity, forecasts of future trends.
• Detailed assessment of the house building market - housing starts & completions, analysis by sector (private/public), forecasts of future trends.
• Assessment of overall construction market - analysis of performance over time, recent trends, forecasts of future developments.
• Prefabricated Building Products - overview of product ranges, current usage, recent developments, forecasts of future trends.
• Review of Buying & Specification Process - overview of factors influencing decision makers in the specification and buying processes, use of purchase agreements for certain types of building products, supply and fit agreements, etc.
• Database of the top UK house builders - includes approximately 700 Head and Regional offices (see page 3 for details).

The overall housing market has continued to evolve throughout the 1990's with substantial changes to the mix between public and private sectors, the size and style of dwellings and specifications levels.

Areas of particular interest:

• Increasing consolidation of the house building market with larger organisations continuing to account for a larger percentage of the market.
• Increased corporate activity in recent years as mergers and takeovers have been instigated to improve market share and presence, and boost operating profits and margins.
• Changing nature of house building market to more sustainable future development.
• Increasing influence of urban redevelopment and use of "brownfield" sites.
• Decline in completions numbers in 2001.

Key areas covered in the report include:

HOUSE BUILDERS

• Overall market size, number of builders, analysis of key changes since 1990.
• Analysis of market shares of leading house builders, comparisons of changing share since 1993.
• Major review of leading national house builders - analysis of key indicators for UK house building (completions, turnover, pre-tax profits and average selling price) since 1997, current market position.
• Rationalisation of industry structure, recent acquisitions mergers, etc.
• Detailed review of the leading regional and local house builders, recent corporate activity. Analysis covering turnover, pre-tax profit, units completed and average selling price.

HOUSE BUILDING MARKET

• Current market conditions - forecasts of steady and sustainable growth.
• Analysis by sector - Private, Local Authority, Housing Associations, changing market mix, factors influencing the market, future trends, value of house building output by sector.
• New housing starts and completions -trends since 1990, review of market volatility in recent years, forecasts up to 2005, analysis of housing starts for public and private sectors by region.
• Market structure - stock of buildings in UK, ownership structure, average household number, housing stock by age of dwelling, average price of new dwellings, residential property transactions, price of land for new house building.

PRE-FABRICATED BUILDING PRODUCTS

• Overview of factors influencing use of pre-fabricated building materials.
• Product review - timber frames, "I" beams, bathroom pods, pre-fabricated roofing systems, etc.
• Assessment of current usage levels, forecasts of future trends.

BUYING & SPECIFICATION PROCESSES

• Overview of key factors influencing the specification of building products.
• Increasing adoption of national and regional purchase agreements and use of preferred suppliers, influence of sub-contract installation process.
• Explorations of main source of supply - Direct Supply from manufacturer, Builders Merchants, Joinery Specialists, Own Manufacture etc. Influence of changing material usage on supply sources.

CONSTRUCTION SECTOR

• Construction Output at overall levels and the impact on house building.
• Construction output per sector and the trends.

DATABASE

Database of the top UK house builders also available as an optional extra - includes over 700 Head and Regional offices addresses and telephone numbers. Follow this link - Housebuilder Database 2002.

The report has over 130 pages and 50 tables and charts and provides a comprehensive review of the house builders market, analysing both industry and product developments within the new house building sector.