The family behind Hill, one of the UK’s largest privately owned housebuilders, picked up dividends of more than £3m last year as growth soared.
Andy Hill, who started the company after being made redundant 20 years ago, said partnerships with local councils and the Government’s Help to Buy scheme helped boost revenues by about a fifth to £502m in 2018.
Essex-based Hill, which operates across London and the south-east, built 1,550 homes in 2018 and made pre-tax profits of £48m, £1m more than the previous year. About 40pc of its houses were paid for using Help to Buy.
