Barratt starts recruitment freeze and slows new building

Britain’s biggest house builder has instituted a staff recruitment freeze and slowed further new site openings in the face of falling demand for homes.
In a trading update for the first six months, chief executive David Thomas warned that the first half of the financial year had seen a marked slowdown in the UK housing market prompting stricter controls on Barratt’s spending.He said: “Political and economic uncertainty impacted the first quarter, this was then compounded by rap