Blaenau Gwent · report

New homes in Blaenau Gwent

32.0% fewer homes were started in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Started, 12 months: 66
Per 1,000 residents: 1.0

Homes started in Blaenau Gwent

Homes started over the previous 12 months, at each quarter.

Blaenau Gwent
Ten-year average

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Period	Blaenau Gwent
Jun 2026	66
Mar 2026	63
Dec 2025	83
Sep 2025	118
Jun 2025	119
Mar 2025	127
Dec 2024	108
Sep 2024	84
Jun 2024	78
Mar 2024	96
Dec 2023	107
Sep 2023	118
Jun 2023	108
Mar 2023	123
Mar 2020	189
Dec 2019	194
Sep 2019	153
Jun 2019	101
Mar 2019	85
Dec 2018	55
Sep 2018	70
Jun 2018	67
Mar 2018	79
Dec 2017	81
Sep 2017	75
Jun 2017	56
Mar 2017	66
Dec 2016	70
Sep 2016	76
Jun 2016	86
Mar 2016	82
Dec 2015	80
Sep 2015	93
Jun 2015	94
Mar 2015	120
Dec 2014	120
Sep 2014	94
Jun 2014	85
Mar 2014	42
Dec 2013	46
Sep 2013	64
Jun 2013	97
Mar 2013	109
Dec 2012	105
Sep 2012	87
Jun 2012	65
Mar 2012	47
Dec 2011	53
Sep 2011	67
Jun 2011	95
Mar 2011	153
Dec 2010	137
Sep 2010	121
Jun 2010	134
Mar 2010	104
Dec 2009	120
Sep 2009	123
Jun 2009	68
Mar 2009	44
Dec 2008	44
Sep 2008	86
Jun 2008	107
Mar 2008	124
Dec 2007	132
Sep 2007	96
Jun 2007	86
Mar 2007	77
Dec 2006	63
Sep 2006	69
Jun 2006	54
Mar 2006	54
Dec 2005	62
Sep 2005	79
Jun 2005	124
Mar 2005	141
Dec 2004	142
Sep 2004	143
Jun 2004	112
Mar 2004	107
Dec 2003	97
Sep 2003	82
Jun 2003	81
Mar 2003	87
Dec 2002	100
Sep 2002	117
Jun 2002	130
Mar 2002	110
Dec 2001	92
Sep 2001	55
Jun 2001	36
Mar 2001	38
Dec 2000	50
Sep 2000	74
Jun 2000	74
Mar 2000	77
Dec 1999	97
Sep 1999	86
Jun 1999	106
Mar 1999	103
Dec 1998	83
Sep 1998	87
Jun 1998	70
Mar 1998	81
Dec 1997	133
Sep 1997	180
Jun 1997	190
Mar 1997	178

A start is the first count of a new home in the UK: no nation counts homes granted planning permission. Most starts are finished one to two years later. England's and Wales's counts come from building control, which misses some homes; Scotland counts housing association approvals as starts; Northern Ireland's begin in 2015.

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Next 12 months

Sale prices have an 80% chance of landing between £141,211 and £166,843 by August 2027.

Expected, August 2027: £154,027
Chance of a rise: 86%

Affordability

At the average sale price, a home costs £143,243. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is £661 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: 11%
Payment, one income: 23%

Buy or rent

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: £682
Owning per month: £674

Foreign buyers

Figures for United Kingdom: Blaenau Gwent 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%

Past cycles

Sale prices have fallen by 3% or more 11 times since 1995. The deepest began in October 2007.

Deepest fall: −29.5%
Recovery from the low: 69 months

People and new homes

In 2025 the population fell by 125 while 87 homes were finished.

Homes finished, 2025: 87
Population change, 2025: −125

Empty homes

7.5% of the 32,864 homes counted in the 2021 census had nobody usually living in them.

Empty, 2021 census: 7.5%
Empty homes: 2,475