Housing Starts in the United Kingdom decreased to 29620 units in the third quarter of 2025 from 29650 units in the second quarter of 2025. Housing Starts in the United Kingdom averaged 38177.54 units from 1978 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 69520.00 units in the second quarter of 1978 and a record low of 16760.00 units in the second quarter of 2020. source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, UK

Housing Starts in the United Kingdom is expected to be 28741.00 units by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the United Kingdom Housing Starts is projected to trend around 31881.00 units in 2027 and 32679.00 units in 2028, according to our econometric models.



Related Last Previous Unit Reference
Average House Prices 301151.00 300283.00 GBP Feb 2026
Construction Orders YoY 28.60 30.50 percent Dec 2025
Construction Output YoY -0.20 -0.30 percent Jan 2026
Mortgage Lending 4076.00 4492.00 GBP Million Jan 2026
Home Ownership Rate 64.50 64.70 percent Dec 2023
Halifax House Price Index MoM 0.30 0.80 percent Feb 2026
Halifax House Price Index YoY 1.30 1.00 percent Feb 2026
Housing Index 519.30 517.80 points Feb 2026
Housing Starts 29620.00 29650.00 units Sep 2025
Mortgage Approvals 60.00 61.01 Thousand Jan 2026
BBA Mortgage Rate 6.59 6.62 percent Feb 2026
Nationwide Housing Prices 545.00 540.40 points Feb 2026
Nationwide Housing Prices MoM 0.30 0.30 percent Feb 2026
Nationwide Housing Prices YoY 1.00 1.00 percent Feb 2026
Price to Rent Ratio 111.46 111.34 Sep 2025
Private Rental Prices YoY 3.50 4.00 percent Jan 2026
Residential Property Prices 2.96 2.83 Percent Sep 2025
RICS House Price Balance -12.00 -10.00 percent Feb 2026


United Kingdom Housing Starts
In the UK, a house or a flat is counted as started on the date work begins on the laying of the foundation. Thus when foundation work commences on a pair of semi-detached houses two houses are started, and when work begins on a block of flats all the dwellings which that block will contain are started. The starts of houses in building schemes are usually phased over a period of weeks or even, in very large schemes, months.
Actual Previous Highest Lowest Dates Unit Frequency
29620.00 29650.00 69520.00 16760.00 1978 - 2025 units Quarterly
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