Kick-starting private housebuilding key to construction sector recovery, Glenigan finds Glenigan’s latest Construction Index finds that construction starts on-site declined by 9% in the three months to January 2026, 16% below 2025 levels. The February Index shows that, despite strong forecasts from Glenigan and other providers, the sector remains stuck in the firm grip of market…
New CSJ report sets out plan to tackle construction skills shortage The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has released a new report that sets out a solution to tackle the construction skills shortage in Britain. The report, titled ‘Skills to Build: Fixing Britain’s construction workforce crisis’, builds on conversations with several organisations and a number…
UK construction improves in Q4 despite residential sector decline Glenigan has published its latest Construction Index, which shows an increase in construction starts towards the end of 2025. The construction industry insight specialist’s report reviews the three months to the end of December 2025, and found that construction performance has started to improve following a sluggish…
SME housebuilders are calling for the government to remove barriers that could increase housing delivery by up to 56%. This could see them boost the supply of new homes by 100,000 a year. SME builders have warned that the current tax and regulatory environment is exacerbating the housing shortage, with 97% saying it’s holding back…
The average house price saw a slight rise in October, according to the latest Nationwide House Price Index. Nationwide reported a 0.3% increase month-on-month, with the average house price now standing at £272,226. The rate of annual house price growth also rose from 2.2% in September to 2.4% in October. Commenting on the figures, Robert…
Aleem Khan, real estate partner at law firm, Boodle Hatfield, looks at the challenging conditions facing SME housebuilders, from financing to planning, and what needs to change to support the sector. The mathematics are stark and sobering. Four decades ago, small and medium-sized (SME) developers delivered 40% of Britain’s new homes. Today, that figure has…
Construction in the UK has stalled as private housebuilding activity fell, according to the latest report on the sector. The Construction Review by Glenigan, powered by Hubexo, has found that project starts fell by 22% during the three months to the end of August 2025 compared to the previous period, and 36% down year-on-year. After…
The latest data from the ONS show a 1.2% growth in the construction sector for the last quarter, which helped UK GDP surpass forecasts. The 1.2% increase comes after a smaller growth of 0.3% in the first quarter and was driven by improvements in both new work and repair and maintenance. From April to June,…
The housing minister and MP for Greenwich and Woolwich, Matthew Pennycook, has visited a flagship Lovell and Royal Borough of Greenwich regeneration programme to see the work going on to transform the local area. Pennycook joined cabinet member for planning, estate renewal and development, Cllr Majid Rahman, to look at the transformation of the former…
Kingspan Group and Hydnum Steel have announced a collaboration on a green steel initiative aimed at decarbonising the construction sector and promoting sustainability in building materials. Hydnum Steel, based in Puertollano, Spain, is a pioneer of green steel in the Iberian Peninsula and Southern Europe. This collaboration will see Hydnum Steel supply Kingspan with green…
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