
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)'s had a busy few weeks. Fresh from looking at vets, the watchdog’s now probing the £2.5 billion tie-up between housebuilders Barratt and Redrow to make a firm which would build about 23,000 houses a year.
And of course it’s been only three weeks since that same regulator published its big report into housebuilding as a whole.