{"id":153302,"date":"2025-07-23T10:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=153302"},"modified":"2025-07-23T10:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:15:15","slug":"cma-housing-investigation-accept-100m-affordable-housing-contribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/cma-housing-investigation-accept-100m-affordable-housing-contribution\/153302\/","title":{"rendered":"CMA housing investigation to accept \u00a3100m affordable housing contribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Seven housebuilders have agreed to contribute a total of \u00a3100m for UK housing programmes, after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) have completed its investigation<\/h2>\n<p>The CMA housing investigation was launched last year following suspicions that seven housebuilding companies were exchanging details.<\/p>\n<p>Barratt Redrow, Bellway, Berkeley Group, Bloor Homes, Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey, and Vistry were all investigated for discussing sales pricing, the number of property viewings, and buyer incentives on offer.<\/p>\n<h3>Largest contribution secured through a CMA affordable housing probe<\/h3>\n<p>To smooth concerns, these companies have offered legally binding commitments to prevent anticompetitive behaviour and ensure compliance.<\/p>\n<p>The packages include a combined payment of \u00a3100m to be split between affordable housing programmes, working with the Home Builders Federation and Homes for Scotland to develop industry guidance on information sharing, and agreements not to share certain types of information with other housebuilders, such as sales prices.<\/p>\n<p>If accepted, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/proposed-commitments-in-the-investigation-into-suspected-anti-competitive-conduct-by-housebuilders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which is the likely outcome<\/a>,\u00a0 the CMA will no longer be required to determine whether these companies have breached competition law, resulting in a more streamlined conclusion to the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The money would be the largest contribution secured through a CMA affordable housing probe or any other investigation. It would directly support the delivery of affordable housing throughout the UK, prioritising low-income households, first-time buyers, and other vulnerable people.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cHousebuilders are taking clear and comprehensive steps to ensure they comply with the law\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Sarah Cardell, chief executive at the CMA, said: \u201cHousing is a critical sector for the UK economy and housing costs are a substantial part of people\u2019s monthly spend, so it\u2019s essential that competition works well. This keeps prices as low as possible and increases choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of the CMA\u2019s investigation, housebuilders are taking clear and comprehensive steps to ensure they comply with the law and don\u2019t share competitively sensitive information with their rivals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlongside these measures, the housebuilders we investigated have agreed to pay \u00a3100 million towards affordable homes programmes, which will help communities up and down the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Barratt-Redrow has had to prove itself to the CMA. When the two housebuilders merged last year, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/regulator-tells-barratt-and-redrow-to-solve-local-competition-issues\/142742\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CMA requested proof that the combined company would not cause a loss of competition<\/a> in the areas where they operate<\/span>\u00a0throughout Shropshire, under threat of further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/barratt-redrow-2-5bn-merger-complete-this-week-despite-cma-concerns\/143018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the issues were resolved<\/a>, and the merger saw Barratt-Redrow become the biggest housebuilding company in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, A Barratt spokesperson said that waiving the CMA condition: \u201cremoves uncertainty for the employees, supply chain and wider stakeholder groups of both businesses, and allows us to accelerate the creation of an exceptional UK homebuilder in terms of quality, service and sustainability, which in turn can accelerate the delivery of high-quality, sustainable homes and communities for customers across the UK, addressing the country\u2019s need for homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven housebuilders have agreed to pay \u00a3100m for affordable housing following a CMA housing investigation launched last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":153303,"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":[304],"tags":[666,34600,173010,572],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-153302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-planning-construction-news","8":"tag-affordable-housing","9":"tag-cma","10":"tag-construction-crime-and-law","11":"tag-housebuilding"},"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>CMA housing investigation to accept \u00a3100m affordable housing fund<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Seven housebuilders have agreed to pay \u00a3100m for affordable housing following a CMA housing investigation launched last year\" \/>\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\/planning-construction-news\/cma-housing-investigation-accept-100m-affordable-housing-contribution\/153302\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CMA housing investigation to accept \u00a3100m affordable housing contribution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Seven housebuilders have agreed to pay \u00a3100m for affordable housing following a CMA housing investigation launched last year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/cma-housing-investigation-accept-100m-affordable-housing-contribution\/153302\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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