McCarthy & Stone sales slump as second covid wave hits

By Dave Rogers2020-11-11T10:13:00

Retirement housebuilder says revenue for the year has slumped 73%

Sales at listed retirement housebuilder McCarthy & Stone have been hit in recent weeks by the second wave of covid infections and the national lockdown, the firm admitted today.

McCarthy & Stone, which is in the middle of being bought by US private equity giant Lone Star, said in a trading update for the year to the end of October that completions had slumped to just a third of their 2019 level, and that current trading was increasingly being affected by rising covid-19 infection rates and government lockdown measures.

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