Gladedale 始める，決める for £500m （警察の）手入れ，急襲 on 競争相手s

By James Rossiter
Updated: 08:50 BST, 17 July 2006

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BRITAIN'S largest 個人として owned housebuilder, Gladedale, is ready to spend up to £500m buying up 競争相手s.

Remo Dipre, the 71-year-old 創立者 and chairman of the Epsom-based family-owned 会社／堅い, said he and his directors had already ' looked at companies in that 地域'. He 追加するd: 'There are 適切な時期s to buy.'

Gladedale snapped up 引用するd southern housebuilder Country & 主要都市の for £72m in April last year. Earlier this year, Dipre said he splashed out 'just south of £50m' for 個人として owned East Anglian 建設業者 首相 Homes.

Gladedale's appetite for その上の 取得／買収s will 燃料 憶測 that housebuilders are 始める，決める for another 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of consolidation. The biggest 購入（する） so far this year was Persimmon's £643m buy of Westbury, which propelled it into the FTSE 100.

Numis 安全s 分析家 示す Hughes 特記する／引用するd as likely Glendale 的s 目的（とする）-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d Oakdene Homes, valued at £48m, and Telford Homes, 価値（がある） about £79m - but did not 支配する out Crest Nicholson, which could sell for more than £500 million.

But Gladedale could itself 落ちる prey to an approach from a larger 建設業者. 分析家s reckon Barratt 開発s, Britain's second-biggest housebuilder, will 攻撃する，衝突する the 取得／買収s 追跡する once former Centrica (n)役員／(a)執行力のある 示す Clare takes over from David Pretty as 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある later this year.

Newly published 人物／姿／数字s from Gladedale showed pre-税金 利益（をあげる）s grew to £61.7m from £41.7m over the year to the end of December, 含むing a £10m 出資／貢献 from the C&M 購入（する）.

Turnover 殺到するd 39% to £348.3m. It is sitting on land bank with a 開発 value of about £4.5bn.