David Ball lands role on a permanent basis
Vivid has appointed David Ball as chief financial officer on a permanent basis.
The 37,000-home Hampshire-based housing association has announced the appointment of Ball, who has been serving as interim since May.
Ball has worked at Vivid or its predecessor organisations for 16 years having joined First Wessex as business and finance manager in 2009. Before that he held roles in the utilities sector.
Mark Perry, chief executive of Vivid, said: “We’re thrilled to welcome David to the team. His dedication and expertise have played a key role in strengthening our financial foundation, helping us deliver high-quality homes and outstanding services to our customers and communities.”
Vivid has been one of the biggest developers in the housing association sector over the past few years. According to Housing Today’s Largest 50 Housing Associations list, the landlord was the sixth biggest builder in 2024/25 with 1,500 completions.
Largest 50 Housing Assocations 2025
For the first time and within less than two months since all the data was made public, Housing Today has published a full sortable table of the largest 50 housing associations in the UK according to their 2024/25 accounts.
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We’ve analysed providers’ turnover, surplus, operating surplus, homes completed and homes owned and/or managed for the 2024/25 financial year.
Housing Today has dug into the data to show aggregated trends and which providers have shown the largest changes in their metrics year-on-year and why.
We’ve also pulled out key trends and talking points we’ve noticed from our reporting of financial statements over the past few months. Also find all our reports of HA accounts in one alphabeticised library. See below.
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