Vistry retains full year expectations

Vistry’s expectations for its full year remain unchanged, with the group seeing a positive “early impact” of the government’s affordable housing measures on its partner contracts.

Giving a trading update for the year from July 1 2025 to date, the partnerships housebuilder said that demand from registered providers and local authorities had “continued to strengthen” over the period. This follows Vistry reporting lower demand from affordable housing partners in its half year results, announced in September.

Its statement today (November 6) read: “Since the half year results in September, we have continued to work closely with our partners and are expecting to conclude a number of new partner funded deals in Q4, underpinning full year expectations and momentum into 2026.

“Alongside the Affordable Homes Programme, ten-year rent settlement and the expected reintroduction of rent convergence measures, the group remains exceptionally well-positioned to play a leading role in the delivery of much-needed affordable housing. We are actively reviewing sites for transfer into our joint venture with Homes England and we are making good progress towards initial acquisitions.”

On September 8, Vistry announced a joint venture with Homes England to accelerate the development of …