{
  "id": 9582633,
  "title": "Vistry is the laggard in a housebuilding sector full of cracks | Nils Pratley",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/vistry-is-the-laggard-in-a-housebuilding-sector-full-of-cracks-nils",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-24T16:19:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2026/sep/24/vistry-is-the-laggard-in-a-housebuilding-sector-full-of-cracks"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Group shrinks ambitions from 20,000 to just 12,000 homes a year in an attempt to balance the books The entire housebuilding sector is in a funk, grumbling about energy prices, the cost of labour, regulation, planning delays, taxes and more, but few have messed up a bad hand quite like Vistry. Three years ago this mashup of the Bovis, Linden and Countryside brands aspired to build 20,000 houses a…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}