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Antrim and Newtownabbey · report

New homes in Antrim and Newtownabbey

2.5% fewer homes were started in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Started, 12 months
621
Per 1,000 residents
4.2

Homes started in Antrim and Newtownabbey

Homes started over the previous 12 months, at each quarter.

  • Antrim and Newtownabbey
  • Ten-year average
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PeriodAntrim and Newtownabbey
Jun 2026621
Mar 2026614
Dec 2025693
Sep 2025803
Jun 2025766
Mar 2025714
Dec 2024633
Sep 2024576
Jun 2024524
Mar 2024480
Dec 2023530
Sep 2023566
Jun 2023684
Mar 2023685
Dec 2022672
Sep 2022652
Jun 2022606
Mar 2022757
Dec 2021827
Sep 2021835
Jun 2021829
Mar 2021681
Dec 2020594
Sep 2020560
Jun 2020503
Mar 2020482
Dec 2019502
Sep 2019561
Jun 2019545
Mar 2019710
Dec 2018731
Sep 2018654
Jun 2018675
Mar 2018605
Dec 2017572
Sep 2017609
Jun 2017616
Mar 2017617
Dec 2016592
Sep 2016590
Jun 2016555
Mar 2016506

A start is the first count of a new home in the UK: no nation counts homes granted planning permission. Most starts are finished one to two years later. England's and Wales's counts come from building control, which misses some homes; Scotland counts housing association approvals as starts; Northern Ireland's begin in 2015.

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Affordability

Figures for Northern Ireland: Antrim and Newtownabbey has no reliable figures of its own.

At the average sale price, a home costs £206,120. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is £951 a month. The UK sets no cap on the payment; no more than 15% of new mortgages may lend over 4.5 times income.

Payment, two incomes
15%
Payment, one income
31%

Buy or rent

Figures for United Kingdom: Antrim and Newtownabbey has no reliable figures of its own.

Owning the average home costs less each month than renting it. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at the average sale price; rent is the average of all private tenancies. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.

Rent per month
£1,406
Owning per month
£1,286

Foreign buyers

Figures for United Kingdom: Antrim and Newtownabbey has no reliable figures of its own.

Buyers living abroad bought 1.8% of the homes sold here in the four quarters to Q1 2025.

Bought by buyers abroad, 12 months
1.8%

Past cycles

Sale prices have fallen by 3% or more once since 2005. That fall began in Q3 2007.

Deepest fall
−55.4%
Recovery from the low
Not yet

People and new homes

In 2025 the population grew by 593 while 610 homes were finished: 1.0 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025
1.0
Population change, 2025
+593

Empty homes

3.9% of the 61,888 homes counted in the 2021 census had nobody usually living in them.

Empty, 2021 census
3.9%
Empty homes
2,431