UK 03:58 Saturday, 24 October 2026
Breaking news and expert analysis on fast-moving AIM and LSE listed shares
Hello Share Chasers. My series of recommendations to buy into house building expands today to take in Bovis Homes (BVS). Yes, there are doubters - including some on this legendary website - but builders continue to post encouraging numbers and Bovis is the latest firm to improve. And yet the share price initially fell on its half-year results...
Hello, Share Campers. When supply falls short of demand, or even likely demand, the happy supplier should be able to keep prices high and still make a tasty profit. That should go without saying. But those who criticise my current support for housebuilders rarely take into consideration this basic rule of o-level economics...
Hello, Share diggers. There are niggles that house builders will be hobbled by Brexit. I can't see it myself. We need housing and homes are still in short supply. The Government has not said it will ease back on its generous incentives for builders when we leave the EU, so if the usual rules of supply and demand apply - and they’re always pretty powerful - then firms which build should, well, build their share prices while unemployment is low and interest rates are still modest...
Two weekend press articles are making me think about the property sector. The first is centred on one of the worst deals in recent years: the bonkers purchase by the Aussie company Wesfarmers of the Homebase DIY chain, on which it burned a cool one billion Aussie dollars before it sold out for a nominal sum to private equity. You can guess the rest: a proposed company voluntary arrangement (CVA), some closure of stores (well 70% amazingly are currently loss-making) and for those that will continue to stay open up to a 90% asked for rent reduction from the landlords.
Hello, Share Finders. Housebuilders attract a few warning signs on this splendid website. But there are still some strong signals to keep buying. The most important, perhaps, is the all-important demand versus supply issue. And though house prices are flat or falling, depending where you live, the shortage of affordable homes gets no better.
Hello Share Swiggers. Not long to go before we find out who’s going to boss us about for the next five years. But whichever party wins, they have promised to increase housing stock.
