{"id":5025200,"date":"2019-08-08T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=5025200"},"modified":"2023-10-10T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T15:38:12","slug":"developers-need-to-prioritise-building-two-up-two-down-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2019\/08\/08\/developers-need-to-prioritise-building-two-up-two-down-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Developers need to prioritise building two-up, two-down houses"},"content":{"rendered":"

New research reveals that over the last two decades the number of two-up, two-down houses being built has fallen by 50%.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2017\/18, only 2% of new-build properties for sale in some areas of the UK were two bedroom houses, and across the property market as a whole, just 9% were in this category, according to data produced by modular housing developer, Project Etopia.<\/p>\n

In 1992\/93 and 1993\/94, when data was initially collected, two-bedroom<\/a> houses were at a high accounting for 23% of all newly built homes, but since 2012\/13 this figure has not gone above 10%.<\/p>\n

Project Etopia\u2019s CEO, Joseph Daniels said: \u201cInevitably, couples are finding it increasingly difficult to buy smaller two-bedroom homes because developers have simply stopped building enough of them. Historically, the two-up, two-down was the first house for new homeowners<\/a>, a modest home with enough space to start a family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDevelopers need to remember they\u2019re building for people, not just profit. Decades of inadequate home building has resulted in hundreds of thousands of people unable to afford to buy a place of their own.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Project Etopia says that the scarcity of housing supply<\/a> at this level is making it more difficult for first-time buyers to get onto the housing ladder.<\/p>\n

Zoopla records zero two bedroom new build<\/h4>\n

Digital property portal Zoopla has discovered that in some parts of the country such as Blackburn, Bolton, Darlington, Gateshead and Gosport there are almost no new-build two bedroom houses for sale and none available in Hastings, Rochdale, Slough, Stevenage, Wigan and Worcester.<\/p>\n

In Durham, Stafford, Cambridge, Birmingham, Nottingham and Crawley the level of three or more bedroom properties accounts for 97% of all new-build homes.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government\u2019s completion data shows houses made up 80% of new-build properties in 2017\/2018, with flats making up the remainder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New research reveals that over the last two decades the number of two-up, two-down houses being built has fallen by 50%. In 2017\/18, only 2% of new-build properties for sale in some areas of the UK were two bedroom houses, and across the property market as a whole, just 9% were in this category, according… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":21966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,6],"tags":[44],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5025200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6097713,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025200\/revisions\/6097713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5025200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}