{"id":691749,"date":"2026-01-12T20:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691749\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:01:13","slug":"housebuilders-targeted-in-new-uk-class-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691749\/","title":{"rendered":"Housebuilders targeted in new UK class action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768248073_617_ewogICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAiYnVja2V0IjogImZpbGVzLmxici5jbG91ZCIsCiAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAg.jpeg\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" width=\"945\" height=\"526\" alt=\"Housebuilders targeted in new UK class action\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                        Shutterstock\/richardjohnson<\/p>\n<p>A newly proposed collective action will seek damages from several UK housebuilders that agreed to pay \u00a3100 million into affordable housing programmes to walk away from a cartel probe by the country\u2019s competition watchdog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"login-title\">To read more<\/p>\n<p>        Subscribe to Global Competition Review<\/p>\n<p>                    Register for limited access<\/p>\n<p>Register for free to unlock full access to our Insight content, including Guides, Reviews and Hubs. Plus, get our newsletter straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/globalcompetitionreview.com\/account\/register\" class=\"btn btn-lg mb-xs-4 mb-md-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register now<\/a><br \/>\n                            Subscribe to unlock unlimited access<\/p>\n<p>Get news, unique commentary, expert analysis and essential resources from the Global Competition Review experts.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/globalcompetitionreview.com\/info\/subscribe\" class=\"btn btn-lg mb-xs-4 mb-md-0 mb-lg-5 mb-xl-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        Already have access? <strong>Login below<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shutterstock\/richardjohnson A newly proposed collective action will seek damages from several UK housebuilders that agreed to pay \u00a3100&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-691749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115883913026246111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}