Housing Market

(asked on 4th September 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of new homes constructed in (a) England and (b) Milton Keynes Council area have been (i) purchased by owner-occupiers, (ii) purchased by buy-to-let investors and (iii) shared ownership or shared equity purchases.


Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 14th September 2015

Statistics on house building completions by tenure in England and each local authority district, including Milton Keynes are published in the Department's live tables 253 (annual) and 253a (quarterly), which are available at the following link.

http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building

Information on all new homes purchased by owner-occupiers or buy-to-let investors are not available centrally.

Statistics on new homes purchased by owner-occupiers under the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme and Help to Buy: NewBuy schemes are published and available at the following link.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/help-to-buy-equity-loan-and-newbuy-statistics

Annual statistics on additional affordable home ownership provided by type of scheme in England and for 2013/14 in each local authority district are published in the Department’s Live Tables 1000 and 1011, which are available at the following link.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply

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