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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

London housing crisis: New home starts slump 30% in a year with number of completed properties also down

New home starts in London have slumped 30%, official figures reveal as the capital’s housing crisis threatens to get worse.

They show there were an estimated 4,220 new home starts in London in the year to September 2025, down from 6,000 in the previous 12 months.

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