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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Julia Kollewe

Bellway cuts jobs in anticipation of UK property market slowdown

A Bellway housing development site in Dunstable, 2020.
A Bellway housing development in Dunstable, Befordshire, in 2020. Demand for UK houses has fallen substantially. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Reuters

Bellway, one of Britain’s biggest housebuilders, has said it is cutting jobs as it anticipates a property market slowdown in the coming year because of higher mortgage rates and the closure of the help-to-buy programme in March.

The construction company said it would shut two of its divisions and slow activity in a third, as it predicted that house completions would “decrease materially” over the next 12 months.

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