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England's housing stock rises by just 121,000

Wednesday, 30 November 2011 3:00 PM

England's stock of homes has risen by the smallest amount for at least 20 years, according to new figures released by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG).

The figures confirm a 121,000 increase to take the total number of homes to 22.8 million in the year to the end of March 2011. That was the lowest increase in statistics going back to 1991 and could well be the lowest since the war.

As a proportion of the total stock of homes, the net change was 0.53 per cent, the lowest in a series going back to 2002.

The South East had the most homes (3.7 million) followed by London (3.3 million) and the North West (3.1 million). The North East had the fewest (1.2 million).

As at 31 March, there were four million social rented homes. The total owned by housing associations rose by 76,000 to 2.3 million while the number owned by councils fell 60,000 to 1.7 million.

The figures are not available for the breakdown of the 18.8 million homes that are privately owned. However, when published they are likely to confirm that there were more private rented homes (3.9 million in 2010) than social rented for the first time in 50 years.

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