
UK brick deliveries are a useful proxy for new house building starts in the absence of monthly starts data. Deliveries in February were 0.9% lower than in January & 20.8% lower than a year earlier according to the Department for Business & Trade. (1/n) #ukhousing #ukconstruction https://t.co/bwUqvWzzsN

A useful bit of recent information from housing expert Neal Hudson in his FT piece on issues facing housing: "even the government’s own modelling for the Future Homes Standard shows it will miss its 1.5 million housebuilding target by 400,000". #ukhousing...