Beyond Government Measures: How housebuilders are responding to Covid-19

The Government has eased the Coronavirus lockdown in a bid to re-start the housing market after seven weeks in cold storage. Estate agents' office can now re-open, viewings are permitted;

Galliard and Weston Homes are looking to recruit nearly 500 new staff between them; warn that Brexit is having 'a huge long-term impact on the London and wider UK construction industry'

Taylor Wimpey, Vistry, Persimmon, Mace and Sir Robert McAlpine are all getting back to work - but Crest Nicholson and Redrow are maintaining Coronavirus closures.