Neal Hudson
@resi-analyst.bsky.social
UK housing market analyst. Personal account. Analysis and commentary at https://builtplace.com/ Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School. Columnist for FT Weekend’s Money.
Developers will offer anything other than a reduction in the headline price www.housingtoday.co.uk/news/berkele...
Berkeley offers to pay private school fees for buyers of homes in north London estate
Housebuilder looks at incentives for people to buy
housingtoday.co.uk
Didn’t have to use it as we made our connecting train home but a delay leaving Paris this afternoon (people on the line) meant we got a nice handwritten form explaining the issue so that we could exchange our GWR tickets for a later train if we missed our booked one.
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 6d agoEveryone on the Eurostar is always so nice! It’s a big part of why I always travel by train when I am able. Lovely piece by my colleague Henry Mance on that: www.ft.com/content/93ce...
New blog post: No, Manchester did not build more homes than Greater London last year jamesjgleeson.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/n...
No, Manchester did not build more homes than Greater London last year
A few days ago Manchester City Council published a press release with an eye-catching factoid. Manchester saw more homes built in the last year (4,766) than all the 32 Greater London boroughs combi…
jamesjgleeson.wordpress.com
Never been happier to see heavy rain on my summer holiday #bordeaux
‘The Wang Fuk Court fire was preventable but not prevented. It was foreseeable but not foreseen’ www.ft.com/content/b0dc... ‘Litany of failures’ behind Hong Kong’s worst tragedy in decades
‘Litany of failures’ behind Hong Kong’s worst tragedy in decades
Lawyers investigating the fire that killed 168 people point to ‘unscrupulous’ contractors and ‘systemic’ issues with regulation
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Met John Healey at a housing event years ago and learnt an important life lesson: never eat a flaky croissant at events where you might be suddenly introduced to someone. (he was kind enough to ignore all the crumbs)
If you want to do something big on council/social housing, you could do a lot worse than John Healey as your Chancellor.
Guess airbnbs are about to get very cheap in university towns over the summer
Interesting impact of the renters' rights act noted in Foxtons trading update yesterday, with students using it to end their tenancies early.
Job opportunity! The Greater London Authority is looking for a senior housing analyst to help a brilliant policy team tackle London's greatest challenge. Applications close on August 3rd www.london.gov.uk/senior-analy...
Senior Analyst (Housing)
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Sure, we can build them. But the problem right now is that there's no one buying them.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3w agoWhy socialists should embrace luxury apartments ft.trib.al/098JRJq | opinion
Latest Molior research on the London new build market www.moliorlondon.com/molior-resid... "Whilst demand-side problems exist, the impact of supply-side reforms will be muted"
Aside from getting basic facts wrong - social rents are not subsidised the capital cost to build is part funded by grant, this article is at odds with almost all parliamentary reports, think tanks, and representative bodies on the dire need for more social housing. www.economist.com/leaders/2026...
If there’s no one buying new homes, then they don’t get planned for or built. www.ft.com/content/2881...
David Lawrence@davidlawrenceuk.bsky.social · last mo.YIMBYism promised to be the next big thing in progressive politics. But a couple of years after the PM declared himself a YIMBY, housebuilding has stalled, and YIMBYs have found themselves on the side of killing newts. Where did 'build baby build' go wrong? 🧵
"Planning reform is important to the longer-term delivery of new homes but the more immediate problem has been a lack of demand and stretched viability — fewer people can afford to buy the homes for the price developers can build them at." Terrific piece by @resi-analyst.bsky.social:
How do we save the wilting new homes market?
Like it or not, the government will have to help developers before houses and rents become even more unaffordable
ft.com
Feels like this was always the plan given that the real increase in funding for the Social and Affordable Homes Programme only comes after 2029? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Social housing plans cut back as UK delays funding
Cap on spending by Homes England is a blow to Andy Burnham’s promise of a big boost to affordable developments
giftarticle.ft.com
Son is bored so asked what I used to do when I lived in Egypt at his age and it was too hot. The answer was Civilisation 2 (& a lot of it!)
Brightening up in Chippenham but it was a very impressive storm. Now to drive home.
James Peacock@peacockreports.bsky.social · last mo.Among the most impressive rainfall radar presentations I've seen in the UK. Reportedly very dark beneath... except for the lightning every few seconds.
One of the many depressing things this year was realising that there is no clear strategy across the whole of government and not just with housing. (1.5m new homes is a target, not a strategy)
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 10mo agoIt's never the comms. Labour's comms is grey because in the absence of a clear strategy for what the government wants to achieve, no-one can defend or articulate what the government says in an interesting or exciting way.
Building safety act fallout: Ardmore Construction Group in administration www.constructionenquirer.com/2026/06/11/a...
Ardmore Construction Group collapses into administration
Safety liability fears choke new work pipeline as London contractor shuts sites and calls in administrators
constructionenquirer.com
More student housing getting converted into other uses due to low occupancy, this time in Leeds (hoping to in this case). www.placeyorkshire.co.uk/pbsa-threadw...
PBSA Threadworks in Leeds seeks change of use in response to low occupancy - Place Yorkshire
The 548-bed purpose-built student accommodation in the city centre has submitted plans for a temporary change of use that would allow part of the building to operate as short-stay hotel accommodation ...
placeyorkshire.co.uk
Bottom image looks like AI crap, which is a shame because the actual imagery does make the same point earth.google.com/web/search/3...
Bottom image looks like AI crap, which is a shame because the actual imagery does make the same point earth.google.com/web/search/3...
Minor thing but it looks like Manchester City council have changed their online system for searching planning applications and, as far as I can tell, there's now no way to search for an application via a map. @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social www.manchester.gov.uk/planning-and...
