@noblefrancis.bsky.socialThe July 2026 fall in deliveries of 19.5% vs July 2025 is more concerning, but in the rest of 2026 the annual % fall will look less bad as housing demand & activity from August-November 2025 were affected by unprecedented Autumn Budget tax-rise speculation. (7/n)
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@noblefrancis.bsky.socialHouse builders are still building out some existing developments but they are adjusting build-rates to the subdued & slowing level of demand & they are not starting new developements except in a few exceptional cases on selected sites. (6/n)
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@noblefrancis.bsky.socialThe Spring rise in mortgage rates takes time to feed through to house building starts (from July onwards) as house building activity in Q2 was based on forward sales (& mortgage rates) before the Middle East conflict. (5/n)
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@noblefrancis.bsky.socialJuly's significant fall in deliveries was expected (& in line with the falls in the Office for National Statistics volume of house building output) as we begin to see the impacts of the Middle East conflict rise in mortgage rates start to feed through in 2026 H2. (4/n)
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@noblefrancis.bsky.socialDeliveries in July 2026 were also 38.6% lower than in March 2022, which was at the recent peak of house building starts, which was still during the 'race for space' peak of housing demand & when there were still low mortgage rates & government housing stimulus. (3/n)
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@noblefrancis.bsky.socialDeliveries in July 2026 were also 30.3% lower than the 2018-19 average, which was before the major disruptions since 2020, before the initial rise in mortgage rates in 2022 & before the end of all government housing & house building stimulus. (2/n)
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@noblefrancis.bsky.socialUK brick deliveries are a useful proxy for new house building starts in the absence of monthly starts data. Deliveries in July 2026 were 6.8% lower than in June & 19.5% lower than a year ago, according to the Department for Business & Trade. (1/n)
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