The biggest housebuilders in the UK, 2026
The top 30 UK housebuilders ranked by the turnover in their own filed Companies House accounts — audited revenue, not self-reported completions. Developers only: contractors have their own list, and each builder is tagged by model — volume, premium, partnerships, retirement and build-to-rent are different businesses.
What the filings show
Consolidation has rebuilt the top of this industry: the merged Barratt Redrow now files £5.58B, half as big again as anyone else, and the big three together bill £12.97B. The strategic split below them is the story — Vistry has staked its model on partnerships housing (pre-sold to housing associations and rental funds), Berkeley defends a premium-margin London model, and the volume builders sit in between, hostage to mortgage rates.
The private builders are the under-reported half of the market: 20 family- and PE-owned firms on this list — Bloor, CALA, Miller, Story, Davidsons among them — bill £7.65B between them, with none of the quarterly scrutiny the plcs get. Their filed accounts are often the only financial disclosure they make.
Specialist models earn their own tags: McCarthy Stone's retirement housing, Watkin Jones's build-to-rent, Gleeson's low-cost homes. Growth is patchy — Dandara (+96%), Castle Green (+92%), London Square (+67%), Barratt Redrow (+34%) lead — and the list deliberately ranks audited revenue rather than the completions numbers the industry prefers to talk about.
Top 30 housebuilders in the UK by filed revenue
Latest accounts filed as of August 2026 · refreshed monthly
| # | Firm | Turnover | YoY | Staff | Accounts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Barratt Redrow volume housebuilder Barratt Redrow plc, consolidated — the merged group’s second year. | £5.58B | +34% | 7,756 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 02 | Persimmon volume housebuilder Persimmon plc, consolidated. | £3.78B | +18% | 4,896 | FY to Dec 2025 |
| 03 | Vistry partnerships housebuilder Listed UK housebuilder Vistry Group plc — pivoted to a partnerships (pre-sold affordable/PRS) model. | £3.61B | -4% | 4,525 | FY to Dec 2025 |
| 04 | Taylor Wimpey volume housebuilder Taylor Wimpey plc, consolidated. | £3.40B | -3% | 4,499 | FY to Dec 2024 |
| 05 | Bellway volume housebuilder Listed residential property developer Bellway p.l.c., consolidated. | £2.78B | +17% | 2,746 | FY to Jul 2025 |
| 06 | Berkeley premium housebuilder The Berkeley Group Holdings plc — London/South East brownfield regeneration at premium price points. | £2.49B | +1% | — | FY to Apr 2025 |
| 07 | Bloor Homes Holding company for Bloor Homes Bloor Holdings Limited, consolidated — the UK’s largest family-owned housebuilder. | £2.07B | -1% | 4,384 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 08 | CALA CALA Group Limited, consolidated (sold by L&G to Ferguson Bidco/Patron-Sixth Street, 2024). | £1.24B | -1% | 1,469 | FY to Dec 2024 |
| 09 | Miller Homes Miller Homes Limited (Apollo-owned); the group topco files without consolidated turnover. | £1.05B | +5% | 1,118 | FY to Dec 2024 |
| 10 | Keepmoat partnerships housebuilder Keepmoat Limited, consolidated (Aermont-backed). | £733M | -4% | 1,046 | FY to Oct 2025 |
| 11 | Crest Nicholson volume housebuilder Crest Nicholson Holdings plc, consolidated. | £635M | +4% | — | FY to Oct 2025 |
| 12 | Hill Hill Partnerships Limited, the group’s principal contracting/housebuilding filer; the wider Hill group files entity-by-entity. | £503M | -12% | 621 | FY to Mar 2026 |
| 13 | Avant Homes Avant Homes Group Limited, consolidated. | £465M | -4% | 675 | FY to Jun 2024 |
| 14 | MJ Gleeson affordable housebuilder MJ Gleeson plc — low-cost homes and strategic land. | £366M | +6% | 724 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 15 | London Square London developer London Square Developments Limited, consolidated (Aldar-owned). | £331M | +67% | 265 | FY to Dec 2025 |
| 16 | McCarthy Stone retirement living McCarthy & Stone Limited, consolidated (Lone Star-owned) — the UK’s largest retirement housebuilder. | £311M | -5% | 2,877 | FY to Oct 2024 |
| 17 | Mount Anvil London developer Mount Anvil New Holdings Limited, consolidated. | £360M | — | 207 | 15-mo period to Mar 2025 |
| 18 | Springfield Springfield Properties plc — Scotland’s largest listed housebuilder. | £281M | +5% | 622 | FY to May 2025 |
| 19 | Story Homes | £252M | -12% | 358 | FY to Mar 2025 |
| 20 | Davidsons Davidsons Developments Limited. | £243M | +10% | 317 | FY to Dec 2025 |
| 21 | Weston Homes Weston Homes plc, consolidated. | £204M | +29% | 250 | FY to Jul 2025 |
| 22 | Watkin Jones BTR developer Watkin Jones & Son Limited — build-to-rent and student accommodation developer. | £184M | -41% | 284 | FY to Sept 2025 |
| 23 | Dandara Dandara Northern Home Counties Limited, the group’s largest GB filer; the wider Dandara group is Isle of Man-headquartered. | £178M | +96% | — | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 24 | Anwyl Anwyl Construction Company Limited; Anwyl Group Limited consolidates the same group. | £177M | -7% | 229 | FY to Sept 2025 |
| 25 | Hopkins Homes | £170M | +8% | 172 | FY to Mar 2025 |
| 26 | Castle Green | £168M | +92% | 114 | FY to Mar 2025 |
| 27 | Strata Strata Homes Yorkshire Limited. | £167M | +14% | 188 | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 28 | Tilia Homes Tilia Homes Limited, consolidated (Terra Firma) — merging with Hopkins Homes under the Untype umbrella. | £150M | +25% | 350 | FY to Mar 2025 |
| 29 | Ballymore London developer Ballymore Deanston Limited, the group’s largest UK filer; the wider Ballymore group is Dublin-headquartered. | £127M | -51% | — | FY to Jun 2025 |
| 30 | Bewley Bewley Homes plc (Abu Dhabi-owned via Pearl). | £97M | -18% | 105 | FY to Sept 2025 |
The next 4
Firms ranked 31–34
| 31 | Elan Homes | £70M | — | FY to Dec 2024 |
| 32 | Hayfield | £66M | -9% | FY to Dec 2024 |
| 33 | Devonshire Homes | £52M | +28% | FY to Sept 2024 |
| 34 | Lioncourt | £46M | +19% | FY to Mar 2025 |
The firms we can't rank
The names missing here are mostly buried inside groups we rank elsewhere, or structured so no group revenue is filed.
- Lovell — Morgan Sindall’s partnerships-housing division — consolidated within the group we rank in the construction list
- Churchill Living (retirement) — group filings carry no consolidated turnover in scope
- Wain Homes — regional entities file separately; no group consolidation surfaced in scope
- Fairview New Homes — site-by-site entity filings; no group turnover
- Cruden — Scottish group’s building and homes arms file separately at sub-threshold scale
- Mactaggart & Mickel — no group filing with disclosed turnover surfaced in scope
How this list is built
Source. The latest annual accounts each firm filed at Companies House. Where a firm files consolidated group accounts, the group figure is used; the entity ranked is named under each firm. Where a firm filed a transition period longer or shorter than twelve months (flagged in the Accounts column), the table shows the filed figure but the firm is ranked on its annualised equivalent.
Who counts as a housebuilder. Residential developers — volume, premium, partnerships, affordable, retirement and build-to-rent models, each tagged. Contractors who build homes for other developers belong to the construction list; housing associations and property investors are excluded.
Scope. Listed groups rank on their plc consolidations; private groups on their topmost UK consolidation, with subsidiary brands (BDW, Persimmon Homes, St George, Countryside) excluded against their parents. Where a group files only entity-by-entity (Hill, Dandara, Ballymore), the largest filer is ranked and footnoted.
Cadence. Rebuilt monthly as new accounts land. Spot a housebuilder we've missed or misread? Tell us — the methodology only works if it's challenged.
Quick answers
- Who is the biggest housebuilder in the UK?
- Barratt Redrow — £5.58B in its latest filed accounts (FY to Jun 2025), the first full year of the merged Barratt and Redrow group. Persimmon and Vistry follow within £2M of each other.
- Why aren't Balfour Beatty or Kier on this list?
- They're contractors — they build for clients — while housebuilders are developers that buy land, build homes and sell them. The business models aren't comparable on turnover, so contractors have their own list (linked below).
- How many UK housebuilders turn over more than £1 billion?
- 9. The big three alone (Barratt Redrow, Persimmon, Vistry) bill £12.97B between them — but note the 20 private and family-owned builders on the list, led by Bloor at £2.07B.
- Why rank by revenue instead of completions?
- Completions — the industry's favourite metric — are self-reported in results presentations, not audited in accounts. Filed revenue is audited, comparable, and harder to flatter. Average selling price differences mean the two orderings genuinely differ: a premium builder like Berkeley ranks higher on revenue than on units.