UK House Building and Population Growth Analysis

Housing-Market / UK Housing Jun 02, 2022 - 03:04 PM GMT

The below graph shows the UK annual population change against annual net additional dwellings which includes completed new builds.

The graph illustrates a major long-term shift took place in UK housing market dynamics by 2000 as the annual increase in the UK population started to surge higher well beyond the normal dynamics of the system that had typically seen average population growth of about 100k per annum, capped at 200k per annum. Instead population growth soared far beyond the number of new house builds that ended the preceding trend for home construction to exceed population growth demands as the rate if house building fell from 364k per annum in 1970 to just 132k by 2000. Whilst at the same time the average size of the UK household had continued to shrink by falling from 3.1 in 1960 to just 2.2 in 2020 (one of the lowest in the world) as a consequence of the increase in single person households and single parent families. This ratio is only trending in one direction i.e. lower which means that even if the UK population suddenly stopped increasing then the falling ratio towards 2.15 by 2030 would imply demand for at least an EXTRA 1 million properties!

So by 2000 Britain was primed for the catastrophic consequences of a. under construction of new homes and b. a population explosion as a consequence of Tony Blair's Labour government opening the flood gates to allow millions of eastern European economic migrants (new Labour voters) to enter without regard to the impact on the infrastructure which resulted in net migration soaring from 50k per annum of the 1990's to a peak of 336k just prior to the 2016 EU referendum totaling some 5 million extra people to house.

And thus the twin forces of out of control immigration and under construction of new homes resulted in a worsening housing crisis that prompted the people of Britain to vote to LEAVE the European Union as Britain had gone from building over 200,000 homes per annum with net migration of less than 50k, a population increase of 100k per annum to building as few as 130,000 homes, with net migration of 250k+ with population growth of over 500,000 per annum and this IS why Britain voted to LEAVE the EU, a housing crisis some 16 years in the making for which blame squarely lies with Tony Blair's government.

Even the great pandemic failed to put much of a dent into migration flows, which still saw net migration of over 100,000, that post pandemic is likely to see a huge surge higher for evidence of which we only need look at Ukraine. Whilst net new dwellings have peaked and appear to be trending lower likely in response to government cutting incentives to build homes in attempts to cut back on spending post pandemic.

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