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Derry City and Strabane · report

New homes in Derry City and Strabane

24.9% fewer homes were started in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Started, 12 months
377
Per 1,000 residents
2.5

Homes started in Derry City and Strabane

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

  • Derry City and Strabane
  • Ten-year average
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PeriodDerry City and Strabane
Jun 2026377
Mar 2026472
Dec 2025455
Sep 2025468
Jun 2025391
Mar 2025350
Dec 2024312
Sep 2024352
Jun 2024375
Mar 2024438
Dec 2023537
Sep 2023495
Jun 2023530
Mar 2023437
Dec 2022459
Sep 2022490
Jun 2022504
Mar 2022518
Dec 2021431
Sep 2021496
Jun 2021453
Mar 2021470
Dec 2020455
Sep 2020489
Jun 2020569
Mar 2020582
Dec 2019635
Sep 2019598
Jun 2019679
Mar 2019710
Dec 2018856
Sep 2018818
Jun 2018726
Mar 2018729
Dec 2017496
Sep 2017497
Jun 2017444
Mar 2017349
Dec 2016354
Sep 2016278
Jun 2016537
Mar 2016591

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: Derry City and Strabane has no reliable figures of its own.

At the average sale price, a home costs £189,474. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is £874 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
14%
Payment, one income
28%

Buy or rent

Figures for United Kingdom: Derry City and Strabane 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: Derry City and Strabane 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
−54.2%
Recovery from the low
150 months

People and new homes

In 2025 the population fell by 22 while 398 homes were finished.

Homes finished, 2025
398
Population change, 2025
−22

Empty homes

5.7% of the 64,634 homes counted in the 2021 census had nobody usually living in them.

Empty, 2021 census
5.7%
Empty homes
3,699