 Persimmon PLC LON:PSN said house demand has remained strong at the start of 2021 with forward orders of 2.3bn or 15 higher than this time last year and sales up by 7. The FTSE 100 housebuilder sold 13,575 homes in the year to end-December 2020, down 14 on 2019, but said it expects to see this recover to numbers similar to 2019 in the current year. 