The merger of George Wimpey and Taylor Woodrow completed today, creating housebuilding’s largest company with a land buying budget of £1.5 billion. The £5 billion deal outstrips Barratt’s £2.2 billion acquisition of Wilson Bowden. The new company, Taylor Wimpey, will build 31,000 homes a year – 22,000 across the UK – with annual sales of £6.7 billion and a UK …