As households across the country dust off their trusted gingerbread house recipes, we’ve taken a peek at what UK housebuilders have been baking up over the past year.
Just over 200,000 new homes were built in the 12 months to the end of Q3 2025, representing a 4.8% dip compared with the previous year.
However, there were brighter notes in the latest quarter, with 52,548 new homes registered in Q3 2025, a 3.5% rise on Q3 2024.
And much like a perfectly decorated gingerbread house, new-build homes remain firmly on many wish lists: nearly half (48%) of homebuyers in 2024 expressed a desire to purchase a new build property – a 21% increase in those who wanted to buy a new build in 2022 and 2023. Source: Dataloft by PriceHubble, DLUHC, Mortgage Advice Bureau