Custom and Self Build Market Report 2024/25

NaCSBA’s Custom and Self Build Market Report is the annual source for insight and data into the sector, and is essential for anyone conducting business in the custom and self build sector. Scroll down for details of contents of the 2024/25 Market Report.

The 3rd edition of the Custom and Self Build Market Report will ensure your business is empowered to make the right decisions for growth, to capitalise on this expanding market.

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Custom and Self Build Market Report 2024/25

Summary

Our third Annual Market Report looks back at 2024 and forward to 2025. Our review of government policy reflects the big change to a Labour government whose headline signals are well received by the sector, namely an ambitious target to build 1.5 million homes during this Parliament and to tackle the serious shortcomings of our planning system. We look at the Right to Build legislation – the primary legislative initiative to promote the growth of custom and self build, identifying weaknesses and the changes needed to make it effective.

Planning has been highlighted by NaCSBA as the biggest constraint on the sector’s growth many times so we devote a significant part of this Report to the subject.

We include two features on Planning Appeals. Andy Moger reviews a number of detailed case studies of custom and self build appeals and Mary Elkington offers a detailed analysis of the data from recent appeals to learn lessons. Sally Tagg provides a case study of one of the flagship approaches to custom and self build on multi-plot sites – percentage policies.

Our messages that custom and self build is welcomed by the population at large are reinforced by two new pieces of Survey work that we report here of public attitudes towards CSB We also take a deep dive into the results of the Annual NSBRC-NaCSBA Survey of self builders, and analyse the results of NaCSBA’s Business Confidence Survey.

Contents

Setting the scene

Foreword
Executive summary
List of NaCSBA members

Government policy

National Policy to 2024
The Labour Government
Legislation- Updating the Right to Build
Across The UK
Policy – Wider Priorities

Market insight

Successful appeals in favour of self build and custom housebuilding
A case in point custom and self build housing delivery – a percentage policy case study
Planning appeals: lessons from the data

Data Analysis

NSBRC/NaCSBA market survey
Consumer ttitudes to new housing options
Attitudes to custom build survey
CSB Market size study
Business Confidence Survey