{"id":128059,"date":"2023-06-13T10:47:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T09:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=128059"},"modified":"2023-06-13T10:47:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T09:47:36","slug":"ilke-homes-up-for-sale-pauses-production-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/ilke-homes-up-for-sale-pauses-production-factory\/128059\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilke Homes up for sale, pauses production at factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Modular housebuilder Ilke Homes is up for sale, pausing production at their Knaresborough factory with an estimated 4,200 affordable homes yet to be delivered<\/h2>\n<p>Ilke Homes is up for sale, seeking a buyer for the \u00a328m firm after filing its accounts over two months late on the advice of auditors.<\/p>\n<p>Ilke Homes commented that without investment, their \u00a31bn order book of majority affordable homes could not be delivered. This amounts to roughly 4,200 units.<\/p>\n<p>The North Yorkshire-based firm, which has a workforce of around 1,000, halted work at the 250,000 sq ft Knaresborough factory site whilst it awaits a buyer.<\/p>\n<h3>Rising costs and planning policy complications have been blamed<\/h3>\n<p>Ilke Homes said its \u201cturnkey\u201d development offering, where the company acquires land, secures planning permission and develops the site before selling the unit to a client, has been \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/92-sme-housebuilders-not-satisfied-governments-approach-planning\/127672\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complicated by uncertainty over planning policy<\/a> and rising build costs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It added: \u201cWhile having delivered strong contribution margins, Ilke Homes now requires new investment to meet overheads, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/adoption-of-mmc-at-scale-housing-sector-failed\/118460\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">achieve further scale and become cash flow positive<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chief financial officer at Ilke Patrick Bergin commented that the firm has been hoping to close an additional funding deal- on top of \u00a3100m in funds raised last year- but the proposed partner pulled out.<\/p>\n<p>Auditors advised that Ilke delay filing accounts in hopes of more funding, but were ultimately unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<h3>Ilke Homes is also considering alternative funding options<\/h3>\n<p>The firm, owned by private equity firm TDR Capital, is also considering the alternative of selling a non-controlling stake in the business as well.<\/p>\n<p>This option would see the stakes of existing shareholders such as Sun Capital, Guinness and Places for People, and Fortress Investment Group reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ilkehomes.co.uk\/2022\/12\/ilke-homes-announces-100-million-new-equity-investment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a3100m investment was hoped<\/a> to fund a new manufacturing facility and increase the company&#8217;s output to 4,000 homes a year, with 1,000 new jobs created.<\/p>\n<p>Outstanding developments from Ilke Homes include projects in Southend, Milton Keynes and Kent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modular housebuilder Ilke Homes is up for sale, pausing production at their Knaresborough factory with an estimated 4,200 affordable homes yet to be delivered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[942],"tags":[666,627,696],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-128059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mmc-news","7":"tag-affordable-housing","8":"tag-modular-construction","9":"tag-offsite-construction"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ilke Homes up for sale, pauses production at factory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Modular housebuilder Ilke Homes is up for sale, pausing production with an estimated 4,200 units yet to be delivered\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/ilke-homes-up-for-sale-pauses-production-factory\/128059\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ilke Homes up for sale, pauses production at factory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Modular housebuilder Ilke Homes is up for sale, pausing production with an estimated 4,200 units yet to be delivered\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/ilke-homes-up-for-sale-pauses-production-factory\/128059\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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