Denbighshire · report

New homes in Denbighshire

22.7% fewer homes were started in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Started, 12 months: 100
Per 1,000 residents: 1.0

Homes started in Denbighshire

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

Denbighshire
Ten-year average

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Period	Denbighshire
Jun 2026	100
Mar 2026	68
Dec 2025	56
Sep 2025	54
Jun 2025	33
Mar 2025	43
Dec 2024	63
Sep 2024	115
Jun 2024	170
Mar 2024	217
Dec 2023	223
Sep 2023	198
Jun 2023	218
Mar 2023	207
Mar 2020	225
Dec 2019	240
Sep 2019	213
Jun 2019	187
Mar 2019	122
Dec 2018	112
Sep 2018	70
Jun 2018	45
Mar 2018	48
Dec 2017	33
Sep 2017	105
Jun 2017	116
Mar 2017	163
Dec 2016	185
Sep 2016	121
Jun 2016	134
Mar 2016	89
Dec 2015	76
Sep 2015	107
Jun 2015	84
Mar 2015	103
Dec 2014	103
Sep 2014	105
Jun 2014	141
Mar 2014	146
Dec 2013	162
Sep 2013	144
Jun 2013	131
Mar 2013	130
Dec 2012	118
Sep 2012	115
Jun 2012	105
Mar 2012	107
Dec 2011	172
Sep 2011	161
Jun 2011	271
Mar 2011	350
Dec 2010	306
Sep 2010	317
Jun 2010	211
Mar 2010	123
Dec 2009	88
Sep 2009	69
Jun 2009	72
Mar 2009	85
Dec 2008	106
Sep 2008	142
Jun 2008	168
Mar 2008	257
Dec 2007	261
Sep 2007	281
Jun 2007	259
Mar 2007	232
Dec 2006	283
Sep 2006	293
Jun 2006	313
Mar 2006	245
Dec 2005	182
Sep 2005	178
Jun 2005	152
Mar 2005	178
Dec 2004	219
Sep 2004	213
Jun 2004	259
Mar 2004	299
Dec 2003	324
Sep 2003	333
Jun 2003	362
Mar 2003	389
Dec 2002	363
Sep 2002	356
Jun 2002	316
Mar 2002	247
Dec 2001	206
Sep 2001	176
Jun 2001	175
Mar 2001	165
Dec 2000	160
Sep 2000	155
Jun 2000	104
Mar 2000	160
Dec 1999	195
Sep 1999	184
Jun 1999	210
Mar 1999	198
Dec 1998	215
Sep 1998	257
Jun 1998	235
Mar 1998	207
Dec 1997	196
Sep 1997	184
Jun 1997	277
Mar 1997	273

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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Next 12 months

Sale prices have an 80% chance of landing between £215,994 and £241,804 by August 2027.

Expected, August 2027: £228,899
Chance of a rise: 98%

Affordability

At the average sale price, a home costs £207,130. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is £956 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: 18%
Payment, one income: 35%

Buy or rent

Renting the average home costs less each month than owning 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: £723
Owning per month: £975

Foreign buyers

Figures for United Kingdom: Denbighshire 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 11 times since 1995. The deepest began in September 2007.

Deepest fall: −20.3%
Recovery from the low: 65 months

People and new homes

In 2025 the population grew by 370 while 83 homes were finished: 4.5 new residents for every new home.

New residents per new home, 2025: 4.5
Population change, 2025: +370

Empty homes

11.5% of the 50,326 homes counted in the 2021 census had nobody usually living in them.

Empty, 2021 census: 11.5%
Empty homes: 5,780