Last year, the Home Builder’s Federation and Close Brothers Property Finance conducted a survey of almost 200 small and medium sized home builders across England and Wales to better understand the impact of the pandemic on the operation of their businesses.
Now, a year on, we have conducted another survey, to look deeper at how the events of the two years have changed the landscape for SMEs. SME builders continue to face obstacles at all stages of the house building process. This is preventing many from reaching their ambitions for growth and threatening the existence of some. The 12 months since has been bookmarked by the yoyo-ing between varying levels of lockdown restrictions and Brexit, which have both exacerbated the existing problems and presented new issues for the construction industry
