Bloor Homes

Bloor Homes
Private company
Industry Housebuilding
Founded 1969
Headquarters Measham, Leicestershire
Area served
 UK
Key people
 John Bloor (owner)
Parent Bloor Holdings
Website bloorhomes.com

Bloor Homes is an English housebuilder based in Ashby Road, Measham, Leicestershire, although it has a Derbyshire post code.[1]

History

The company was founded by John Bloor in 1969.[2] In 2002, housing sales reached 1,870 making Bloor Homes then the largest housebuilder to be owned by one person.[3] As of 2016, Bloor Homes is now one of the largest privately owned housebuilding groups in the UK. The combined group is worth around £725 million.[4]

Operations

As of 2012, Bloor Homes builds circa 1,800 homes a year.[5] In 2015, this increased at a rate of 2,000 a year thanks to the upturn in the UK economy.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Rich List profiles". Birmingham Post. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
  2. ↑ "Top Track 100". Sunday Times. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
  3. ↑ Wellings, Fred: Dictionary of British Housebuilders (2006) Troubador. ISBN 978-0-9552965-0-5.
  4. ↑ "Rich List". Birmingham Post. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  5. ↑ "Triumphant year at Bloor Holdings". Insider Media. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
  6. ↑ "Triumph in rich list as John Bloor becomes county's second billionaire". Hinckley Times. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
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