New House Building and Social Housing Sales, July to September 2009 - Revised

Statistics on the number of new dwellings, started and completed, and the number of social housing sales include data for Wales for the period July to September 2009.

This first release was originally published on 12 January 2010. Since its publication the information on local authority sales has been revised following a data cleansing exercise and the information on registered social landlord sales for April to June 2009 has been revised following the receipt of updated data.

Dwelling stock:

• At the 31 March 2008 there were 1.33 million dwellings in Wales.  Between 1 April 2008 and 30 September 2009, a total of 10,161 additional dwellings were built, 89 per cent of which were private sector dwellings.
• Between 1 April 2008 and 30 September 2009, a total of 576 socially rented dwellings have been transferred into the private sector through the sale of 209 local authority and 367 registered social landlord dwellings via Right to Buy and other schemes.

New house building:

• Whilst the number of new dwellings completed continues to fall (a decrease of 28 per cent compared with the same period last year), the number of new dwellings started have been increasing over the last three quarters and has increased by 6 per cent compared with the same period last year.

Social housing sales:

• The level of social housing sales fell dramatically during 2008-09 with only 398 (r) total sales during the period, around two thirds less than during 2007-08.  This trend has continued with sales during the July to September 2009 quarter down by 30 (r) per cent compared with the same quarter the previous year.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5055
E-mail: stats.housing@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

16 June 2010