The number of new homes being started by builders in
England fell at its steepest rate for three years in the latest quarter. A 14
per cent decline in housing starts to 33,280 in the April-June period was the
sharpest since the January-March period of 2012, according to figures from the
CLG. It meant the pace of new house building was 32 per cent below its peak
level in 2007. The sharp decline in the number of new housing starts in the
latest quarter puts the brakes on after a 29 per cent quarter-on-quarter rise
at the start of 2015 - which was the biggest increase on records going back to
2006. For the year to June 2015, starts totalled 136,320, down 1 per cent on
the year before. Read more on the Daily Mail website.
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