Impact of pandemic sees 28% drop in new home registrations

30th January 2021

Scottish Housing News.

Scotland witnessed a 28% decline in new home registrations in 2020, despite a strong Q4 bounceback, as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic took its toll on housebuilders.

Figures published today by the National House Building Council (NHBC) revealed that Covid-19 caused the number of new homes registered to be built by UK housebuilders to fall by 23% in 2020.

However, productivity moved close to pre-pandemic levels in the final quarter of the year with new home registrations down just 2% on the same period in 2019.

NHBC registered a total of 123,151 new homes in 2020, compared to 160,319 in 2019. The largest falls were seen in the second quarter of 2020 as the initial lockdown halted work on site.

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