House-builders' output up 25% this year

A total of 90,730 new homes were registered with the National House Building Council in the first eight months of 2013, compared to 72,740 last year over this period.

There was a marginal increase in August registrations, year-on-year, (9,769 in 2013 compared to 9,553 in 2012) but the rolling quarter for June-August 2013 saw a 15% increase from the same three months last year (33,593 in 2013 compared to 29,272 in 2012).

NHBC said that the figures indicated the efficacy of the various government initiatives, such as the Help to Buy scheme.

NHBC commercial director Richard Tamayo said: “Our latest statistics continue the pattern we have seen over the course of the year, with new home registration figures showing a noticeable improvement on recent years but still considerably down on pre-economic downturn figures.

 “These figures are the highest for this period (January-August) since 2007 which is obviously encouraging news, but illustrates the significant difference in the number of new homes being built six years ago and now.”

The Jan-Aug 2007 registration total was 140,984.

Full regional breakdown of total new homes registered June-August 2013 by region/country:

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