Ards and North Down · report
New homes in Ards and North Down
20.0% fewer homes were started in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Started, 12 months
- 500
- Per 1,000 residents
- 3.0
Homes started in Ards and North Down
Homes started over the previous 12 months, at each quarter.
- Ards and North Down
- Ten-year average
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| Period | Ards and North Down |
|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | 500 |
| Mar 2026 | 493 |
| Dec 2025 | 568 |
| Sep 2025 | 650 |
| Jun 2025 | 679 |
| Mar 2025 | 621 |
| Dec 2024 | 536 |
| Sep 2024 | 407 |
| Jun 2024 | 378 |
| Mar 2024 | 431 |
| Dec 2023 | 407 |
| Sep 2023 | 426 |
| Jun 2023 | 455 |
| Mar 2023 | 482 |
| Dec 2022 | 575 |
| Sep 2022 | 673 |
| Jun 2022 | 643 |
| Mar 2022 | 592 |
| Dec 2021 | 590 |
| Sep 2021 | 539 |
| Jun 2021 | 564 |
| Mar 2021 | 492 |
| Dec 2020 | 496 |
| Sep 2020 | 489 |
| Jun 2020 | 490 |
| Mar 2020 | 578 |
| Dec 2019 | 633 |
| Sep 2019 | 638 |
| Jun 2019 | 733 |
| Mar 2019 | 825 |
| Dec 2018 | 768 |
| Sep 2018 | 773 |
| Jun 2018 | 740 |
| Mar 2018 | 755 |
| Dec 2017 | 854 |
| Sep 2017 | 936 |
| Jun 2017 | 1,013 |
| Mar 2017 | 968 |
| Dec 2016 | 848 |
| Sep 2016 | 763 |
| Jun 2016 | 732 |
| Mar 2016 | 743 |
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.
Other reports for Ards and North Down
Figures for Northern Ireland: Ards and North Down has no reliable figures of its own.
At the average sale price, a home costs £227,275. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is £1,049 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
- 17%
- Payment, one income
- 34%
Figures for United Kingdom: Ards and North Down 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
Figures for United Kingdom: Ards and North Down 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%
Sale prices have fallen by 3% or more once since 2005. That fall began in Q4 2007.
- Deepest fall
- −55.7%
- Recovery from the low
- Not yet
In 2025 the population fell by 231 while 535 homes were finished.
- Homes finished, 2025
- 535
- Population change, 2025
- −231
5.9% of the 74,838 homes counted in the 2021 census had nobody usually living in them.
- Empty, 2021 census
- 5.9%
- Empty homes
- 4,393