建設業者s shaken by Bovis 率s 警告

By Hugo Duncan for the Daily Mail
Updated: 10:53 BST, 11 July 2007

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More than half a billion 続けざまに猛撃するs was wiped off housebuilders' 株 today after Bovis Homes 警告するd that rising 利益／興味 率s will 激突する the ブレーキs on the 住宅 market.

株 in the 部門 宙返り／暴落する d after Bovis became the first housebuilder to 配達する a 貿易（する）ing update since the Bank of England 増加するd 率s by a ４半期/4分の1-point to 5.75% on Thursday, the fifth time such move since August.

経済学者s think there will be at least one more rise before the end of the year as the Bank 戦う／戦いs to bring インフレーション 支援する under 支配（する）／統制する.

But Bovis 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Malcolm Harris today said: '率s are already higher than they need to be.'

He 警告するd that the 最近の rises had already 原因（となる）d the 住宅 market to stagnate and said the 結果 for the year will depend on the strength of the autumn selling season. 保留（地）／予約 率s and 訪問者 率s are already slowing.

分析家s said it did not bode 井戸／弁護士席 for the 10% growth in 利益（をあげる）s Bovis 予測（する） for the year, and downgraded their 期待s for 2007 and 2008 by as much as 10%.

Bovis 株 fell 78p, or more than 8% to 842?p, Redrow was 負かす／撃墜する 23?p to 517?p and Taylor Wimpey sank 14?p to 347?p. FTSE 100 競争相手s were also 攻撃する，衝突する with Persimmon off 40p to 1174p and Barratt 開発s losing 23?p to 991?p.

The housebuilding 部門's 全体にわたる value, £20bn at the start of 貿易（する） today, 宙返り／暴落するd by about £600m. or 3%.

Last week's 利益／興味-率 increasese by the Bank of England 押し進めるd the cost of a mortgage to its highest for more than six years.

Harris said: 'There are real 関心s over where 利益／興味 率s will finally settle. If 利益／興味 率s do continue to go up, that will 影響する／感情 消費者 感情 and the whole 消費者 market. The UK 住宅 market has been slowing and the 普通の／平均（する） time 規模 for a rise in 率s to 施行される is three to six months.

'The 通貨の 政策 委員会 can afford to wait and see the 影響 of the five rises it has already put through before moving again. I don't think there is need for その上の 率 rises as 消費者s are showing 警告を与える.'

Bovis, a 前線-走者 to build much of the 住宅 for the 2012 Olympic Village, sold 1256 homes in the first half of the year agai nst 1262 a year earlier.