Welcome to Building Value


Independence, integrity and insight are rare qualities and we prize them in our focus on building materials, real estate, construction and support services; and in the provision of advice and leadership in strategy, planning, corporate finance and communications to these key industries.

Its Chairman and founder, Tony Williams, has specialised in these industries and disciplines internationally for over 25 years in a portfolio career as investment banker and industrialist with leading companies such as UBS, Morgan Stanley, ING Barings and ABN AMRO. He was also a Director of Tarmac plc and has wide experience as a Non Executive Director.

This provides Building Value with a unique perspective and an ideal base from which to proffer insight, help and direction; and it does so from a Head Office in central London and a Scandinavian subsidiary in Sweden.

Building Value: it does just that

What's New

June 2009 – European construction growth is forecast to be negative 8% this year; and -1% in 2010

Euroconstruct, the premier forecasting unit for European construction activity, published its latest numbers in Warsaw this month. These showed that 2008 (-3.1%) was the first year in 15 to show negative growth, with Ireland and Spain the leading losers (both off more than 17% in real terms). In the current year, Europe will be down, again, with a massive deficit of -7.5%. Ireland (set to fall by more than one third) and Spain join in the misery, once more, but are joined by the Nordics, the UK and Italy, in particular. In fact only Switzerland and Poland are in positive territory. Growth will be negative in 2010 too (-1.0%) but 10 of the 19 Euroconstruct countries actually show growth. In 2011, the forecast is +1.6% overall with 15 nations better.

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May 2009 – Jackson Browne and The Jayhawks

Regular viewers will know that the Board of Building Value likes music almost as much as the industry it serves; and, thus, May was a banner month. Not only did a select invited group see JB at the Royal Albert Hall but a smaller team saw Gary Louris and Mark Olson (the creative half of The Jayhawks) at the Jazz Café in Camden. Over cup runneth our…...

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April 2009 - UK Housebuilding in Q1 (plus half of April)

And before you let the sun in, mind it wipes its shoes”. Like Dylan Thomas, we adopted a welcoming but cautious reception to the recent surge in share prices (see Papers).

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Clients

Baggeridge Brick
Castlemead
Citigate Dewe Rogerson
CCF
CFR
Collinson Grant
Connaught
Countryside Properties
DKM
EMAP
Englefield Capital
Experian Group
Hamilton Recruitment
IFO
Hopkins Homes
Jasper Capital
Knauf
Mansell
Miller Group
Miller Homes
Prognosecenteret
Prosperity Minerals Holdings
Ridgeons Group
SAS International
STATS
UBM
Watts Group
Wienerberger
Zurich