Blog: LSL Land & New Homes

In the year to end Jan 2019 new build prices per m² rose by an average of 3.87% across the UK. The new style New Build Index reports on the prices per square meter by property type and region.

In the year to end Dec 2018 new build house prices rose on average by 2.2% across the UK which is down on last year’s figure of 10.8%

The New Build Market Review shows the overall top level status of the housing market for the last decade and is updated on a quarterly basis.

A recent Glenigan Construction index reports that the West Midlands has outperformed all other UK regions in October, with the value of construction project starts up by 44%, compared with October 2017.

Recent ONS (Office for National Statistics) analysis suggest that the UK construction sector expanded by 2.1% in Q3 when compared with Q2. Given that in Q2 there was also growth, this indicates sustained rebound following a contraction of 1.6% in Q1. In part this has been due the way in which pub...

In the year to end Nov 2018 new build house prices rose on average by 3.3% across the UK which is down on last year’s figure of 9.2%. It now looks highly likely that 2017 will prove to have been the peak year for new build transactions in the current residential property market cycle...

In the year to end Oct 2018 new build house prices rose on average by 3.7% across the UK which is down on last year’s figure of 9.5%. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has recently published its analysis of house building activity to the end of the June quarter 2018, in En...

Analysis of data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) shows that new home construction is now almost at levels seen prior to the crash of 2008...

As expected Philip Hammond has confirmed that stamp duty will be abolished for those buying via a shared ownership schemes, for homes worth less than £500,000. This change is effective from 29th Oct and will be backdated to November 2017. This policy change is expected the cost the government onl...

In a recent report by the NHBC forty interesting facts about UK homes, housing and house building have been revealed. Despite the UK being the ninth most densely populated in Europe, the amount of land used for homes and gardens is only just over 5%. In contrast, land used for commercial, communi...