Carrots, Not Sticks to get Housebuilders Building Don’t get me wrong, we get that there’s an affordability problem for first time buyers in our housing market. But I’m just not sure that encouraging people to make the biggest financial decision of their lives is going...

Light at the end of the tunnel? Do the latest business insolvency figures for the construction sector signal a pinprick of light at the end of a very long tunnel? According to the ONS, the sector headed the rest of the economy in the number of insolvencies over 2025,...

Berkeley Homes Wallingford Here’s some photo’s from a site visit by Ethan Johnston, from our Business Development team to a Berkeley Homes development in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. Berkeley Homes is a long-standing customer of Scotts, and this site is currently in its...

First Time Buyer Demand Support could see 100,000 extra homes built a year Doing the same thing and expecting a different result is the very definition of madness. So the continuing lack of a demand support for first time buyers remains a major barrier to growth for...

Planning your Sales Strategy for Summer 2026? If your housebuilding business is planning sales strategies for its developments over the spring and summer, Scotts may have just the thing. The art of the showhome has been finely tuned by housebuilders over the years;...

New Homes Week 2026 We’d like to wish all Scotts housebuilding customers who are taking part a very successful New Homes Week 2026. New Homes Week, run by the Home Builders Federation,  is an annual awareness campaign that provides a positive, unified platform for the...

Housebuilding Industry Forecasts January 2026 According to the latest Construction Product Association forecasts, housebuilding this year is expected to grow between 0.4% and 4% depending on the economic factors that affect consumer and business confidence, including...

Family Owned Builders Still at Risk from Business Property Relief Levels According to the Government itself, more than 80% of local and regional building companies are still family owned and very much at risk from Inheritance Tax changes announced in the Autumn 2024...

It's the Economy... We all know that housebuilding drives economic growth. Building just 100 new homes is estimated by the HBF’s housebuilding calculator (https://www.hbf.co.uk/research-insight/hbf-housing-calculator/)to: Support the employment of 347 people Provide 4...

What 2026 has in store Scotts has been a family business for over 100 years, so we know what it takes to survive tough times as well as to thrive in strong markets. The stability to survive a world war, countless recessions, a credit crunch, a pandemic and a global...

Thank You for 2025! The Scotts Timber Engineering team would like to say a big “Thank You” to all those we have had the pleasure of working with this year; we look forward to continuing to support you, and many more, in 2026. 2025 has been a challenging year – let’s...