Total building output is estimated to have grown by 0.6% within the three months to July 2025, in keeping with 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 complete housing work (together with public housing) noticed a reasonable improve from £3.77bn to £3.81bn
Four out of the 9 sectors grew within 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 stated: “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 houses this Parliament already seems to be out of attain. Developers need to construct, and lenders are able to assist them, however the supply chain is just not robust sufficient to show ambition into supply.
“Approvals and begins don’t assure completions, and except tasks can transfer by way of that supply window, the shortfall will solely develop.”
Leitch careworn that the reply was not simply planning reform. “Planning groups want correct resourcing, SME builders want the boldness to commit capital, and we should deliver new individuals into the business earlier than the abilities hole turns into irreversible. Without these foundations in place, targets will stay headlines slightly than houses.”
McBains managing director of property and building Clive Docwra stated:
“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 can be inspired that the three months to July confirmed a rise by way of infrastructure new work, however a priority is that housebuilding stays sluggish, which places the federal government’s goal of constructing 1.5 million houses below menace.
“There remains to be underlying confidence inside the business that the medium-term outlook for progress stays encouraging, however many companies will nonetheless must navigate the headwinds of uncertainty over the subsequent few months.”
