{"id":30860,"date":"2025-06-11T06:52:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/another-extension-for-competition-probe-into-house-builders\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T06:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:52:05","slug":"another-extension-for-competition-probe-into-house-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/another-extension-for-competition-probe-into-house-builders\/","title":{"rendered":"Another extension for competition probe into house builders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-498646\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The Competition and Markets Authority launched a probe in February 2024 after uncovering evidence during a far-reaching study into housing market delivery that indicated some house builders may be sharing commercially sensitive information with their competitors.<\/p>\n<p>The original investigation period finished in December and was extended to May 2025 for \u201cfurther investigation: including additional evidence gathering, and CMA analysis and review.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It has now been extended to August and the CMA said:\u00a0\u201cThe CMA has not reached a view as to whether there is sufficient evidence of an infringement or infringements of competition law for it to issue a statement of objections to any party under investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The firms under investigation are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barratt Redrow<\/li>\n<li>Bellway<\/li>\n<li>The Berkeley Group<\/li>\n<li>Bloor Homes Limited<\/li>\n<li>Persimmon<\/li>\n<li>Taylor Wimpey<\/li>\n<li>Vistry<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Prior\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"photo\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2025\/06\/11\/another-extension-for-competition-probe-into-house-builders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Competition and Markets Authority launched a probe in February 2024 after uncovering evidence during a far-reaching study into &#8230; <a title=\"Another extension for competition probe into house builders\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/another-extension-for-competition-probe-into-house-builders\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Another extension for competition probe into house builders\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-enquirer","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}