Barratt said it was seeing high levels of demand across all regions.
"High levels of demand for land have pushed up prices, bringing investment banks and speculators into farming," it says.
Wayne Preston, head of banking at Investec, said: "We continue to see high levels of demand being placed on professionals throughout the UK.
Apple executives did not update investors on sales of the iPad, saying only that they were "shocked" by the high levels of demand for the tablet computer.
A key policy question, then, is how to generate sufficiently high levels of demand without relying on, or creating, speculative bubbles.
We listed Poundland in our grey market– it received high levels of demand from retail clients, more so than Pets at Home given the wider popularity of Poundland on the UK high street.
High levels of demand forced the three ambulance services to rate themselves as reaching a "critical" state, just one short of the "potential service failure" ranking on a six-point scale measuring the pressures they face.
The boards may stabilize and raise average prices through the manipulation of commodity flows, with the objective of maintaining reasonably high levels of demand in all markets at all times.
The call was made last week after the hospital failed a surprise inspection by the Care Quality Commission, which found high levels of demand and raised a series of concerns relating to inappropriate restraint, resuscitation and sedation of elderly people, some with dementia.
Those authorities which are more dependent on grant - deprived areas of the country which have high levels of demand for services do not raise as much in terms of council tax and business rates - are hit harder by cuts in grant than wealthier areas, which are more financially self-sufficient.
As Adam Schatzker, an analyst with the Canadian investment bank RBC Capital Markets, said in an equities research report published last week: "It appears that the character of the spot market has changed markedly over the past few months from one that was heavily oversupplied with weak demand to one that has high levels of demand with very little supply".
