British housebuilders : history & analysis /
Wellings, Fred.
RICS Research.
Oxford : Blackwell Pub.,
2006.
"RICS Research"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-279) and index.
The supply side. Introduction. What is the speculative housebuilding industry? -- Sources of information. Published literature -- Company and accounting data -- Unpublished information -- Interviews -- Methodology. Measuring corporate size -- Houses are not homogeneous -- Social housing is included in the more recent unit numbers ; The pre-war housebuilders. Introduction -- The private housing market. A pre-World War I background -- Industry context -- Building to rent -- Which firms built the houses? -- Inclusivity of the data -- A local business -- The influence of local authority housebuilding ; War and building controls. Introduction -- The collapse of speculative housebuilding -- Wartime construction -- Peacetime controls -- The response of the 1930s housebuilders to post-war controls ; The post-war housing boom 1955-1973. Introduction -- The private housing market -- Which firms built the houses? The period around 1960 -- Mid-1960s -- Pre-1974 -- The emergence of the regional housebuilder ; Recession and recovery, 1973-1988. Introduction -- The private housing market - the collapse -- Which firms built the houses? -- The private housing market - recovery -- Which firms built the houses? -- The emergence of the national housebuilder ; Recession and recovery again, 1989-2004. Introduction -- The private housing market - the collapse -- Which firms built the houses? -- The private housing market - recovery -- Which firms built the houses? -- The era of the national housebuilder ; Market share through the century: a summary. A note on the NHBC data -- A note on overseas comparisons ; Analysis. Who were the builders? Introduction -- The dominant individual within the housebuilding firm -- The housebuilders - pre-war -- The housebuilders - the post-war boom -- The housebuilders in the late 1980s -- The housebuilders in the 1990s ; The rationale for growth: the economies that accrue to size. Introduction -- Ease of entry -- Scale - the economies of the large site. Technological change -- Scope - the economies of the large firm. Land acquisition and finance -- Marketing economies -- Purchasing -- Diseconomies of scale -- Do large companies earn superior rewards? A statistical comparison ; The decline of the private housebuilder: a chronology. Introduction -- The pre-war housebuilders -- The early 1970s -- The late 1980s ; Decline: an overview. Introduction -- Succession. Family succession -- Managerial succession -- Relay succession -- Focus versus diversification. Housebuilding and construction -- Housebuilding and commercial property -- Housing and conglomerates -- Overseas housing -- Demand and the housing cycle ; An alternative explanation of growth. Introduction -- The financial incentive -- Because it is there -- The importance of not making mistakes: the pool of survivors ; Appendix: quoted company departures, 1937-2004.
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