Screenshot of geocoded Peterborough City Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

Latest #openaddresses from our pals in local government:

Peterborough City Council (in the East of England) has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

I have geocoded the property locations for maps etc

#UKhousing #localgov #proptech #FOI #opendata

🏡📊 Top Stories of the Week: FCA and PRA consider relaxing high-LTI lending rules and UK Finance's Roe to step down as director of mortgages.

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It’s Thursday - but Friday is a bank holiday! - so it's time for an early round-up of the main #UKHousing policy news and events from this week 🏘️📰

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Congratulations to @sheltercharity.bsky.social Their report: Build Up Not Trickle Down: The Case for Need-Led Housing Policy has been selected by our Editorial Panel as one of the 'must read' reports of 2026, www.thinkhouse.org.uk/reports/2026/ #ukhousing #housingresearch #housingpolicy

Shadow Lists of Rents - rents collated 1 October 2024 - 30 September 2025 These are the Lists of Rents compiled in accordance with schedule 3B of the Rent Officers Housing Benefit Functions Order 1997 (as amended), but not used to calculate the local housing allowance (LHA) rates due to DWP policy changes introduced by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Modification) Order 2026 (SI 2026/5), maintaining the LHA at those rates previously determined on 31 March 2024. The LHA comprises a set of rates for a number of categories - Categories A to E which are: a) 'Shared Accommodation': Exclusive use of one bedroom and sharing the use of one or more of a: ● kitchen ● bathroom ● toilet ● room suitable for living in b) 1 bedroom dwellings: those with one bedroom and exclusive use of a kitchen, a bathroom, a toilet and a room suitable for living in c) 2 bedroom dwellings d) 3 bedroom dwellings e) 4 bedroom dwellings

Shadow Lists of Rents 2026 for England, collected 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2025 www.gov.uk/government/p... dataset from HMRC (15.6 MB CSV file)

BRMA boundaries www.gov.uk/government/p...

#UKhousing #opendata

Screenshot of geocoded Arun District Council address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

#Openaddresses evening edition:

Arun District Council (in the South East region of England) has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

Arundel! Bognor Regis! Littlehampton! Probably other towns, have a poke around

#UKhousing #localgov #opendata

Screenshot of geocoded Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap

First #openaddresses of the month:

Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk (in the East of England) has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

Thx @bcklwn.bsky.social!

I have geocoded the records for maps etc

#UKhousing #localgov #opendata

... means that there will be further sharp cuts in house building product manufacturing capacity & in skills. So, if and when the house building recovery arrives, capacity & skills constraints mean that the recovery will take longer & cost substantially more. (13/end)
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... & it is increasingly likely that house building completions will also fall in 2027 as well, due to the lag effects of both the affordability issues & cost rises on house builders. Plus, a 4th & potentially 5th successive annual fall in house building also... (12/n)
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... from 2026 Q3 & Q4 we are likely to see the full impacts of mortgage rate rises on major house builder demand & the full effect of cost rises. Overall, what this means is that 2026 will see a further fall in house building completions, a 4th successive fall &... (11/n)
#ukconstruction #ukhousing

Most major house builders have forward sales until Summer based on homebuyers with mortgages already approved so demand should hold up near-term but smaller house builder demand will be hit first (& they will also be hit first by the cost increases) whilst... (10/n)
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... financial markets are currently pricing in 2 interest rate rises for 2026 (compared with 2 interest rate cuts they were expecting just a month ago) & so further increases in mortgage rates can be expected as those rate rises feed through, which will hit demand. (9/n)
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In terms of affordability, it was already a key issue for many house builders last year & since the Middle Eastern conflict mortgage rates have already risen sharply (the average 2-year fixed mortgage rate rose from 4.83% at the end of February to 5.84% so far &... (8/n)
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This means that additional government costs on the house building supply chain this year & expected double-digit % construction product price rises due to the Middle Eastern conflict will be coming from an already high base & further hit house builder site viability. (7/n)
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Even after construction products price inflation spikes in 2021 & 2022 slowed, a lot of input cost rises were baked in (wages, industrial energy costs etc.) so even in January 2026 construction products prices were 41.6% higher than in January 2020, pre-pandemic. (6/n)
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It's worth noting that construction products price inflation peaked at 23.5% after the global supply chain issues in 2021 & it peaked at 25.3% after the energy & commodity price spikes following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. (5/n)
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These additional government costs on house building occur at a time when we expect another spike in construction products price inflation due to the impacts of Middle Eastern conflict on energy, fuel, commodities, shipping costs & manufacturing costs. (4/n)
#ukconstruction #ukhousing

... on 1 July the government's 50% import tariff on steel products (including products we don't make in the UK) comes into effect & in October the Building Safety Levy comes in, all of which increase house building costs and hit site viability even further. (3/n)
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Site viability is a key problem due to all of the government's additional costs on house building, which will continue to increase this year. Today, the government doubles the lower rate of Landfill Tax, which will increase the cost of house building, whilst... (2/n)
#ukconstruction #ukhousing

Given that house building completions in England in 2025 fell by 8%, a 3rd successive fall according to MHCLG, it's worth noting that site viability & affordability were not only the biggest house building issues last year, but they will get worse this year. (1/n)
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Housing Hope or Warning? Mortgage Jump Meets Rate Fear Early momentum in the housing market faces fresh pressure from rising rate expectations.

UK mortgage approvals jump to 62,600, but rate fears cloud housing outlook

#UKHousing #MortgageRates #PropertyMarket #Economy #InterestRates #RealEstate 📉🏡

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More #openaddresses:

Rochdale Borough Council (in the North West of England) has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

No UPRNs sadly so I haven't geocoded the property locations

#UKhousing #localgov #opendata

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) strangely never took off in ukHousing ? Spooky eh?

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If your systems annual maintenance is crippling you, think about if your supplier can help you and your charity to offset it . .

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MRI & Capita faced the wrath of the CMA (Competition & Markets Authority) - OpenHousing / #HousingOne

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Are you satisfied working remotely from home, or with more sluggish broadband, still maybe going nowhere fast ?

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Speakers at those conferences should be there, because they believe what they say, not because they have bought a stand ..

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How social housing and other sectors learned that many of us could always already work from home

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