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Renovation in Barking and Dagenham

In 2025, 1% of the homes added came from existing buildings rather than new ones.

Homes from existing buildings, 2025
1%

Homes finished in Barking and Dagenham, by type of work

Homes added each financial year: new build, and homes gained by converting buildings or changing their use, net of those lost. MHCLG (England) and the Scottish Government.

  • Conversions
  • Extensions
  • New buildings
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YearNew buildingsExtensionsConversionsTotal
20251,471—211,492
2024437—1438
20231,216—161,232
20221,187—201,207
2021971—791,050
2020695—48743
20191,103—181,121
2018323—90413
2017556—40596
2016736—64800
2015971—741,045
2014722—9731
2013485—21506

England counts net additions: new build, plus homes gained by converting buildings or changing their use, net of those lost. Scotland counts homes from conversions. Wales and Northern Ireland publish no such split. Years are financial years, April to March, named by the year they end in.

Other reports for Barking and Dagenham

Sale prices have an 80% chance of landing between £364,887 and £424,818 by August 2027.

Expected, August 2027
£394,853
Chance of a rise
86%

At the average sale price, a home costs £369,881. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is £1,707 a month. The UK sets no cap on the payment; no more than 15% of new mortgages may lend over 4.5 times income.

Payment, two incomes
27%
Payment, one income
53%

Owning and renting the average home cost about the same each month. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at the average sale price; rent is the average of all private tenancies. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.

Rent per month
£1,700
Owning per month
£1,742

68.0% fewer homes were started in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Started, 12 months
220
Per 1,000 residents
0.9

Figures for United Kingdom: Barking and Dagenham has no reliable figures of its own.

Buyers living abroad bought 1.8% of the homes sold here in the four quarters to Q1 2025.

Bought by buyers abroad, 12 months
1.8%

Sale prices have fallen by 3% or more 4 times since 1995. The deepest began in March 2008.

Deepest fall
−24.4%
Recovery from the low
60 months

In 2025 the population grew by 3,433 while 250 homes were finished: 13.7 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025
13.7
Population change, 2025
+3,433

3.9% of the 76,956 homes counted in the 2021 census had nobody usually living in them.

Empty, 2021 census
3.9%
Empty homes
2,990