Neath Port Talbot · report

New homes in Neath Port Talbot

95.3% fewer homes were started in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Started, 12 months: 5
Per 1,000 residents: 0.0

Homes started in Neath Port Talbot

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

Neath Port Talbot
Ten-year average

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Period	Neath Port Talbot
Jun 2026	5
Mar 2026	9
Dec 2025	30
Sep 2025	39
Jun 2025	61
Mar 2025	75
Dec 2024	55
Sep 2024	62
Jun 2024	55
Mar 2024	43
Dec 2023	54
Sep 2023	45
Jun 2023	57
Mar 2023	83
Mar 2020	128
Dec 2019	140
Sep 2019	169
Jun 2019	152
Mar 2019	151
Dec 2018	152
Sep 2018	180
Jun 2018	213
Mar 2018	227
Dec 2017	201
Sep 2017	180
Jun 2017	149
Mar 2017	108
Dec 2016	148
Sep 2016	145
Jun 2016	204
Mar 2016	267
Dec 2015	287
Sep 2015	271
Jun 2015	312
Mar 2015	302
Dec 2014	328
Sep 2014	356
Jun 2014	297
Mar 2014	301
Dec 2013	262
Sep 2013	214
Jun 2013	246
Mar 2013	230
Dec 2012	209
Sep 2012	244
Jun 2012	232
Mar 2012	229
Dec 2011	244
Sep 2011	255
Jun 2011	257
Mar 2011	315
Dec 2010	346
Sep 2010	318
Jun 2010	275
Mar 2010	256
Dec 2009	207
Sep 2009	197
Jun 2009	221
Mar 2009	243
Dec 2008	311
Sep 2008	359
Jun 2008	340
Mar 2008	297
Dec 2007	281
Sep 2007	284
Jun 2007	300
Mar 2007	335
Dec 2006	344
Sep 2006	421
Jun 2006	410
Mar 2006	421
Dec 2005	364
Sep 2005	286
Jun 2005	337
Mar 2005	365
Dec 2004	427
Sep 2004	412
Jun 2004	376
Mar 2004	333
Dec 2003	317
Sep 2003	289
Jun 2003	284
Mar 2003	290
Dec 2002	319
Sep 2002	369
Jun 2002	390
Mar 2002	421
Dec 2001	445
Sep 2001	499
Jun 2001	523
Mar 2001	543
Dec 2000	510
Sep 2000	482
Jun 2000	508
Mar 2000	545
Dec 1999	594
Sep 1999	609
Jun 1999	531
Mar 1999	444
Dec 1998	373
Sep 1998	352
Jun 1998	371
Mar 1998	386
Dec 1997	420
Sep 1997	387
Jun 1997	380
Mar 1997	394

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 £167,909 and £190,337 by August 2027.

Expected, August 2027: £179,123
Chance of a rise: 94%

Affordability

At the average sale price, a home costs £165,787. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is £765 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: 13%
Payment, one income: 25%

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: £692
Owning per month: £781

Foreign buyers

Figures for United Kingdom: Neath Port Talbot 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 12 times since 1995. The deepest began in November 2007.

Deepest fall: −23.1%
Recovery from the low: 74 months

People and new homes

In 2025 the population fell by 595 while 40 homes were finished.

Homes finished, 2025: 40
Population change, 2025: −595

Empty homes

5.7% of the 66,404 homes counted in the 2021 census had nobody usually living in them.

Empty, 2021 census: 5.7%
Empty homes: 3,795