It is an eyewatering statistic. Last year, the UK's GDP fell by 9.9%, according to the Office for National Statistics. With vast swathes of the economy, including retail, leisure and hospitality, forced to shut up shop in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, that came as little surprise. However, the virus did not affect all sectors equally. The nation's listed housebuilders would be forgiven for failing to notice that the country was in a state of crisis at all. The results published this month shows that the listed housebuilders are in rude health financially. But can they keep up the momentum following the end of the stamp duty holiday? To say that they bounced back quickly from the initial lockdown last year would be an understatement.
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