Flintshire · report

New homes in Flintshire

16.2% more homes were started in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Started, 12 months: 493
Per 1,000 residents: 3.2

Homes started in Flintshire

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

Flintshire
Ten-year average

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Period	Flintshire
Jun 2026	493
Mar 2026	442
Dec 2025	430
Sep 2025	365
Jun 2025	300
Mar 2025	342
Dec 2024	306
Sep 2024	423
Jun 2024	342
Mar 2024	270
Dec 2023	311
Sep 2023	224
Jun 2023	255
Mar 2023	252
Mar 2020	516
Dec 2019	512
Sep 2019	524
Jun 2019	454
Mar 2019	423
Dec 2018	425
Sep 2018	369
Jun 2018	374
Mar 2018	416
Dec 2017	420
Sep 2017	466
Jun 2017	642
Mar 2017	619
Dec 2016	700
Sep 2016	692
Jun 2016	543
Mar 2016	554
Dec 2015	537
Sep 2015	532
Jun 2015	590
Mar 2015	613
Dec 2014	578
Sep 2014	528
Jun 2014	463
Mar 2014	384
Dec 2013	339
Sep 2013	318
Jun 2013	311
Mar 2013	337
Dec 2012	335
Sep 2012	316
Jun 2012	286
Mar 2012	262
Dec 2011	250
Sep 2011	253
Jun 2011	256
Mar 2011	233
Dec 2010	216
Sep 2010	236
Jun 2010	188
Mar 2010	160
Dec 2009	142
Sep 2009	93
Jun 2009	72
Mar 2009	77
Dec 2008	70
Sep 2008	122
Jun 2008	196
Mar 2008	209
Dec 2007	294
Sep 2007	275
Jun 2007	238
Mar 2007	287
Dec 2006	265
Sep 2006	260
Jun 2006	254
Mar 2006	209
Dec 2005	205
Sep 2005	182
Jun 2005	173
Mar 2005	160
Dec 2004	111
Sep 2004	145
Jun 2004	171
Mar 2004	189
Dec 2003	178
Sep 2003	185
Jun 2003	189
Mar 2003	219
Dec 2002	249
Sep 2002	242
Jun 2002	237
Mar 2002	220
Dec 2001	206
Sep 2001	196
Jun 2001	205
Mar 2001	254
Dec 2000	341
Sep 2000	473
Jun 2000	559
Mar 2000	555
Dec 1999	546
Sep 1999	453
Jun 1999	446
Mar 1999	529
Dec 1998	545
Sep 1998	557
Jun 1998	604
Mar 1998	615
Dec 1997	615
Sep 1997	639
Jun 1997	567
Mar 1997	503

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 £207,022 and £232,859 by August 2027.

Expected, August 2027: £219,941
Chance of a rise: 69%

Affordability

At the average sale price, a home costs £214,882. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is £991 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: 16%
Payment, one income: 32%

Buy or rent

Renting the average home costs less each month than owning it. 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: £817
Owning per month: £1,012

Foreign buyers

Figures for United Kingdom: Flintshire 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 8 times since 1995. The deepest began in August 2007.

Deepest fall: −18.4%
Recovery from the low: 103 months

People and new homes

In 2025 the population grew by 42 while 440 homes were finished: 0.1 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025: 0.1
Population change, 2025: +42

Empty homes

4.7% of the 70,553 homes counted in the 2021 census had nobody usually living in them.

Empty, 2021 census: 4.7%
Empty homes: 3,340