British housebuilders [[electronic resource] ] : history & analysis / / Fred Wellings

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910143297303321
• Autore: Wellings Fred
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Blackwell, 2006
• ISBN: 1-280-74890-7; 9786610748907; 0-470-76457-0; 0-470-75796-5; 1-4051-7165-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Collana: Real estate issues
• Disciplina: 338.4769080941; 728.0941
• Soggetti: Construction industry - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Housing development - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Housing - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: British Housebuilders; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Part I THE SUPPLY SIDE; 1 Introduction; The book's structure; 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is the speculative housebuilding industry?; Sources of information; Published literature; Company and accounting data; Unpublished information; Interviews; Methodology; Measuring corporate size; Houses are not homogeneous; Social housing is included in the more recent unit numbers; 2 The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 dataA local business; The influence of local authority housebuilding; 3 War and Building Controls; Introduction; The collapse of speculative housebuilding; Wartime construction; Peacetime controls; The response of the 1930s housebuilders to post-war controls; 4 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; 5 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; 6 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; 7 Market Share Through the Century: a Summary; A note on the NHBC data; A note on overseas comparisons; Part II ANALYSIS; 8 Who Were the Builders?; Introduction; The dominant individual within the housebuilding firm; The housebuilders - pre-warThe housebuilders - the post-war boom; The housebuilders in the late 1980s; The housebuilders in the 1990s; 9 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; 10 The Decline of the Private Housebuilder: a Chronology; Introduction; The pre-war housebuilders; The early 1970s; The late 1980s11 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; 12 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; Bibliography; Index; General; Companies; People
• Sommario/riassunto: This examination of the development of the private housebuilding industry from the 1930s to the present day analyses the supply side of the industry, and gives the first comprehensive account of the corporate history of the 20th century housing industry in the UK.