Dwelling numbers rose by73,000 or 33% between 1995 and 2023 (estimates. Quite a rise, yet house prices were 6.4 times higher at the end...

Data from official statistics shows how many dwellings by tenure, have been built between 1981 and 2021. Completions of permanent...

The ability of the tenants of local authority housing to buy the property and therefore change to the status of owner-occupier although...

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Recent data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), provided mid-year estimates of the population at Lower Super Output...

The previous blog identified the main causes of the increase in house prices together with the factors which impact on local areas and...

The two previous blogs looked at the two alternative explanations for the rising house values and price of housing in the UK with the...

The dominant discourse on housing is that the various facets of the housing crisis – high prices, lower home ownership etc is due to a...

Summary A lack of supply is the root of all evil in the housing world according to the dominant housing discourse. Consequently the...

From 12 February 2024 a change to the planning system requires that most planning permissions will have to deliver a 10% biodiversity net...

On March 4th the ONS released a statistical bulletin on short-term lets for the July-September quarter. This provides data on those...

In February 2024 the Centre for Cities published a report stating that the UK had a backlog of 4.3 million homes. Since publication the...

1 . Main points Overall, UK household costs, as measured by the Household Costs Index (HCI), rose 5.0% in the year to December 2023, down...

Summary The Competition and Markets Authority has published a report on the housebuilding market in Great Britain. The main points are...

Summary Some supporters of the ‘we must build more houses’ consider that England should emulate France in increasing the house building...

A view over Portreath Much is made by ‘build more houses’ supporters of a lack of housing. Oddly enough though they fail to mention the...

Cornwalls most productive sectors - or are they? Using output data from ONS and workforce data from the 2021 census, it is possible to...

Output, the value of goods and services is either measured using Gross Value Added (GVA) or Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This article...

Summary Data from the 2021 census shows that a higher proportion of people moving to Cornwall (51.5%) are in the top occupational groups...

Using the 2022 Council tax base figures it is possible to compare the share of empty and second homes in Cornwall with the English...