Sales of London new build homes plummet: Why is nobody buying them? An estimated £3.5 billion in new builds remain unsold on the property market Evening Standard · Aug 6
Inside London’s great affordable homes betrayal At new developments, targets are routinely being slashed for property Londoners can actually afford, reports Ruth Bloomfield Evening Standard · Jun 11
The perfect storm fuelling London’s housebuilding crisis Labour has vowed to build 1.5 million new homes by 2029 — but with construction halted at dozens of sites across the capital, that target looks impossibly ambitious Evening Standard · Jan 26
Rachel Reeves wants to eat the rich, but London needs a better boost As the super-rich take their money out of the capital, there are easy wins the Chancellor could take in her Budget, reports Jonathan Prynn Evening Standard · Oct 26, 2025
Sadiq Khan gets go-ahead to slash affordable housing ratio to 20% to tackle London housing crisis New target is announced by Housing Secretary Steve Reed after weeks of speculation - but critics say it won’t solve housing emergency Evening Standard · Oct 23, 2025
We should all be outraged that London has stopped building homes Reducing the affordable threshold to 20% would be a recognition of economic reality Evening Standard · Oct 21, 2025
London developers told: Affordable homes target cut won't last forever Percentage of new homes in capital required to be affordable will be cut from 35% to 20% - but only for a limited period Evening Standard · Oct 17, 2025
London developers to be allowed to reduce percentage of affordable homes Housing secretary and capital’s mayor draw up plans to boost housebuilding, but homelessness charities protest The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2025
A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2025
London housing crisis 'now an emergency' as fewer than 4,000 affordable homes started last year Interactive map shows boroughs where barely any new homes are being built Evening Standard · Jul 10, 2025
Sales of new homes in London have collapsed to 'catastrophic' lows in 2025 says report Preliminary data from respected analysts Molior show just 3,950 new homes were sold in the capital during the first half of 2025. Evening Standard · Jul 10, 2025
Housebuilding in London slumps to its lowest level since 2009 Work was started on just 1,210 new private flats and houses in the first quarter of the year, according to latest figures from Molior. Evening Standard · Apr 28, 2025