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Written by rosalind renshaw

The house building industry’s serious difficulties have been revealed by new figures for the second quarter of this year, showing that new home registrations were down by 24% on the same period last year.

According to the NHBC, private homes were down by 10% on the same period in 2011, while public registrations toppled by half (49%).

The figures for June itself were worse still for the private sector. A total of 6,685 new homes were registered, 26% down on June last year, when there were 9,029.

During the month, 1,643 new homes were registered in the public sector, compared with 5,536 in 2011 – a 70% drop.

Richard Tamayo, NHBC commercial director, said: “As the year progresses we must hope to see a rebound in social housing numbers as providers adapt to new methods of funding.

“Hopefully the decline in private registrations witnessed in June will, in hindsight, prove to be a statistical blip.”

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    Do the planners not have a responsibilty for such dreadful "designs"?? Try and extend your house they are all over you, throw up an estate of rubbish, thats fine? Then they add social housing to make the site even worse, why are they always at the front not hidden at the back?

    • 31 July 2012 16:21 PM
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    Agree with S A Longden, someone I know has just spent a ridiculous amount on his first house and it's tiny.

    Overpriced, cardboard houses with tiny cramped gardens are not what people want and people are definitely preferring to buy older homes with space, character and decent workmanship.

    House builders have shot themsevles in the foot by steadily providing sh*tter houses for more money.

    • 31 July 2012 10:26 AM
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    The chickens are coming home to roost.

    • 30 July 2012 18:05 PM
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    Perhaps it would help if 1. the houses were actually big enough to live in (think minimum Parker Morris standards) without deceptive prattle i.e a room just big enough for a 2'6" bed against the wall is NOT a bedroom, it is a box room with a bed crammed in it. And 2. were a higher standard of design i.e. without stairs immediately by the front door, with places for coats and wet shoes etc. by the doors, bathrooms with space to hang towels and so forth ad nauseum. Why would people want to spend stupid amounts of money, even considering a mortgage was affordable/available, for a cramped shoebox unless in completely dire straits. I bet they'd rather emigrate.

    • 30 July 2012 13:54 PM
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