Total building output is estimated to have grown by 0.6% in the three months to July 2025, based on the most recent figures from the Office for National Statistics.
On a sector stage personal housing work noticed a slight improve from £3.36bn for June to £3.39bn for July. And whole housing work (together with public housing) noticed a reasonable improve from £3.77bn to £3.81bn
Four out of the 9 sectors grew in the three months to July 2025; the principle contributors to the rise have been personal housing restore and upkeep, and infrastructure new work, which grew by 3.8% and a pair of.1%, respectively.
Commenting on the most recent numbers Hampshire Trust Bank managing director of improvement finance Neil Leitch mentioned: “These figures level to progress in new personal housing, however they arrive in opposition to eight straight months of slowdown reported by S&P Global.”
“The authorities’s pledge to ship greater than one million properties this Parliament already appears out of attain. Developers need to construct, and lenders are able to assist them, however the supply chain is just not sturdy sufficient to show ambition into supply.
“Approvals and begins don’t assure completions, and until initiatives can transfer by that supply window, the shortfall will solely develop.”
Leitch harassed that the reply was not simply planning reform. “Planning groups want correct resourcing, SME builders want the arrogance to commit capital, and we should carry new folks into the business earlier than the talents hole turns into irreversible. Without these foundations in place, targets will stay headlines slightly than properties.”
McBains managing director of property and building Clive Docwra mentioned:
“After June’s figures confirmed a fall in new orders, the sector will welcome that July noticed a rise in new work, albeit reasonable.
“The business will likely be inspired that the three months to July confirmed a rise in phrases of infrastructure new work, however a priority is that housebuilding stays sluggish, which places the federal government’s goal of constructing 1.5 million properties underneath risk.
“There continues to be underlying confidence inside the business that the medium-term outlook for progress stays encouraging, however many corporations will nonetheless should navigate the headwinds of uncertainty over the subsequent few months.”
