Name: United Kingdom Housing Starts
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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	297755.00	299544.00	GBP	Dec 2025
Construction Orders YoY	29.30	-11.90	percent	Sep 2025
Construction Output YoY	-1.10	0.90	percent	Nov 2025
Mortgage Lending	4601.00	4593.00	GBP Million	Dec 2025
Home Ownership Rate	64.50	64.70	percent	Dec 2023
Halifax House Price Index MoM	-0.60	-0.10	percent	Dec 2025
Halifax House Price Index YoY	0.30	0.60	percent	Dec 2025
Housing Index	513.40	516.50	points	Dec 2025
Housing Starts	29620.00	29650.00	units	Sep 2025
Mortgage Approvals	61.01	64.07	Thousand	Dec 2025
BBA Mortgage Rate	6.77	6.81	percent	Dec 2025
Nationwide Housing Prices	540.40	540.80	points	Jan 2026
Nationwide Housing Prices MoM	0.30	-0.40	percent	Jan 2026
Nationwide Housing Prices YoY	1.00	0.60	percent	Jan 2026
Price to Rent Ratio	111.46	111.34		Sep 2025
Private Rental Prices YoY	4.00	4.40	percent	Dec 2025
Residential Property Prices	2.96	2.83	Percent	Sep 2025
RICS House Price Balance	-14.00	-14.00	percent	Dec 2025

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.