Torfaen · report

New homes in Torfaen

29.0% fewer homes were started in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Started, 12 months: 151
Per 1,000 residents: 1.6

Homes started in Torfaen

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

Torfaen
Ten-year average

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Period	Torfaen
Jun 2026	151
Mar 2026	153
Dec 2025	109
Sep 2025	129
Jun 2025	125
Mar 2025	125
Dec 2024	120
Sep 2024	105
Jun 2024	92
Mar 2024	87
Dec 2023	95
Sep 2023	99
Jun 2023	112
Mar 2023	124
Mar 2020	274
Dec 2019	296
Sep 2019	306
Jun 2019	346
Mar 2019	436
Dec 2018	420
Sep 2018	421
Jun 2018	356
Mar 2018	284
Dec 2017	318
Sep 2017	350
Jun 2017	291
Mar 2017	215
Dec 2016	142
Sep 2016	87
Jun 2016	110
Mar 2016	130
Dec 2015	193
Sep 2015	189
Jun 2015	200
Mar 2015	202
Dec 2014	164
Sep 2014	153
Jun 2014	135
Mar 2014	150
Dec 2013	143
Sep 2013	158
Jun 2013	154
Mar 2013	139
Dec 2012	133
Sep 2012	125
Jun 2012	147
Mar 2012	129
Dec 2011	131
Sep 2011	138
Jun 2011	137
Mar 2011	157
Dec 2010	163
Sep 2010	157
Jun 2010	200
Mar 2010	216
Dec 2009	203
Sep 2009	191
Jun 2009	134
Mar 2009	127
Dec 2008	124
Sep 2008	117
Jun 2008	109
Mar 2008	165
Dec 2007	195
Sep 2007	240
Jun 2007	288
Mar 2007	238
Dec 2006	215
Sep 2006	196
Jun 2006	143
Mar 2006	114
Dec 2005	95
Sep 2005	74
Jun 2005	71
Mar 2005	70
Dec 2004	63
Sep 2004	73
Jun 2004	76
Mar 2004	77
Dec 2003	98
Sep 2003	116
Jun 2003	140
Mar 2003	147
Dec 2002	144
Sep 2002	144
Jun 2002	140
Mar 2002	149
Dec 2001	144
Sep 2001	110
Jun 2001	109
Mar 2001	87
Dec 2000	77
Sep 2000	93
Jun 2000	98
Mar 2000	144
Dec 1999	193
Sep 1999	194
Jun 1999	209
Mar 1999	193
Dec 1998	173
Sep 1998	181
Jun 1998	190
Mar 1998	222
Dec 1997	226
Sep 1997	215
Jun 1997	211
Mar 1997	185

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 £165,608 and £207,402 by August 2027.

Expected, August 2027: £186,505
Chance of a rise: 30%

Affordability

At the average sale price, a home costs £194,895. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is £899 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: 14%
Payment, one income: 28%

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: £865
Owning per month: £918

Foreign buyers

Figures for United Kingdom: Torfaen 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 15 times since 1995. The deepest began in September 2007.

Deepest fall: −18.4%
Recovery from the low: 72 months

People and new homes

In 2025 the population fell by 58 while 150 homes were finished.

Homes finished, 2025: 150
Population change, 2025: −58

Empty homes

5.8% of the 42,756 homes counted in the 2021 census had nobody usually living in them.

Empty, 2021 census: 5.8%
Empty homes: 2,475