NIHE issues first Housing Market Review in a decade

Last Tuesday, the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) launched its Housing Market Review 2024–25, the first review of its kind in a decade.

About the report

The Review aims to bring together the most up-to-date intelligence on Northern Ireland’s housing sector. It draws on previous NIHE statistics as well as data from government departments, academia and the private sector, providing a summary of recent housing research.

It is intended to give an overview of current conditions in the housing market and to serve as a reference point for NIHE’s Corporate Strategy (still in draft).

In doing so, the Review will be used to guide decisions on where and how NIHE intervenes in the housing market and hopes to offer a way to monitor the strategic impact of those interventions over time.

Statistics compiled by the Review

Among the figures and their datasets discussed in the Review’s seven papers include:

• Construction output (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency): showing how housing contributes to overall construction activity with trends across new build, repair, maintenance and infrastructure
• New dwellings (Land & Property Services – Department of Finance): starts, completions and sales by council area, indicating where housing delivery is strongest or weakest
• House prices (LPS – DoF): broken down by property type and by district, highlighting market demand and regional contrasts
• Social housing provision (NIHE): covering targets, budgets, completions and waiting lists alongside levels of housing stress
• Projected housing need (NIHE): long-term demand forecasts by tenure with particular emphasis on the scale of future social housing requirements

One of these documents is devoted to providing an overview of the current state of the Department for Communities’ Housing Supply Strategy, which is available here.

If you have any questions or comments about NIHE’s Housing Market Review, please contact Curtis Large, RSUA Policy and Public Affairs Officer, at curtis@rsua.org.uk