9,544
New development charges in England and Wales, 12 months to June 2026 (+11.7%)
Insights · H1 2026
Development Exit Reports by Location, H1 2026
How much development lending is running, how many schemes are exiting their loans and how fast new homes are selling, in 73 boroughs, cities and counties. The same method for every location, benchmarked against England and Wales.
3,785
Development loans filed as repaid, same period
60.6%
Live development book over 24 months old, 30 June 2026
5,241
Exit-type charges to development companies, 12 months
Written and reviewed by Matt Lenzie Founder & Principal Broker · 25 years arranging development finance · Reviewed June 2026
Each report reads the same four public records for one place. Companies House charges show which development companies borrowed and when their loans were repaid. Land Registry shows how many new homes sold. Council planning portals show what has been approved. Company registrations show new development companies being set up. Lenders are grouped by type and never named, and any figure built on fewer than 30 records is suppressed.
For the national view, with loan ageing, release speed and selling times, see the Development Exit Demand Tracker.
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32 reports
London
| Location | New development charges, 12m | Change | Exits filed, 12m | Book over 24 months | New-build sales, settled 12m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barking and Dagenham | 20 | -25.9% | 2 | 57.7% | 94 |
| Barnet | 164 | +27.1% | 58 | 60.2% | 453 |
| Bexley | 52 | +44.4% | 22 | 54.9% | 40 |
| Brent | 108 | +200% | 18 | 51.6% | 267 |
| Bromley | 52 | +126.1% | 18 | 68.4% | 155 |
| Camden | 49 | +6.5% | 17 | 61.3% | 164 |
| City of London | 12 | 0% | 15 | 79.6% | 18 |
| Croydon | 125 | +30.2% | 49 | 63.1% | 49 |
| Ealing | 78 | -22% | 24 | 59.3% | 192 |
| Enfield | 63 | +14.5% | 16 | 59.3% | 79 |
| Greenwich | 71 | +121.9% | 8 | 55.7% | 288 |
| Hackney | 203 | +31.8% | 32 | 54.2% | 245 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 46 | +15% | 7 | 52.8% | 220 |
| Haringey | 94 | -13.8% | 32 | 60.7% | 122 |
| Harrow | 80 | +5.3% | 29 | 50.5% | 123 |
| Havering | 38 | +18.8% | 18 | 62.4% | 38 |
| Hillingdon | 64 | +4.9% | 16 | 57.5% | 87 |
| Hounslow | 43 | -8.5% | 22 | 53.7% | 149 |
| Islington | 42 | -17.6% | 28 | 67.7% | 18 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 24 | +4.3% | 12 | 65.6% | 88 |
| Kingston upon Thames | 41 | +70.8% | 4 | 55.9% | 21 |
| Lambeth | 65 | -23.5% | 22 | 52.0% | 185 |
| Lewisham | 77 | +63.8% | 14 | 62.4% | 45 |
| London | 2,057 | +13.2% | 673 | 59.9% | 5,172 |
| Merton | 30 | -18.9% | 12 | 63.1% | 19 |
| Newham | 30 | +20% | 16 | 69.6% | 510 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 39 | +77.3% | 17 | 60.5% | 9 |
| Southwark | 29 | -50% | 20 | 69.2% | 147 |
| Sutton | 35 | -18.6% | 16 | 47.8% | 30 |
| Tower Hamlets | 34 | +21.4% | 10 | 70.5% | 705 |
| Wandsworth | 59 | +51.3% | 29 | 62.1% | 299 |
| Westminster | 113 | -2.6% | 46 | 59.7% | 94 |
10 reports
South East
| Location | New development charges, 12m | Change | Exits filed, 12m | Book over 24 months | New-build sales, settled 12m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkshire | 100 | -35.9% | 44 | 64.0% | 905 |
| Brighton and Hove | 49 | 0% | 27 | 63.7% | 95 |
| Buckinghamshire | 106 | 0% | 67 | 70.0% | 1,346 |
| Hampshire | 183 | -3.7% | 112 | 66.9% | 1,532 |
| Kent | 344 | +4.6% | 122 | 56.1% | 2,065 |
| Portsmouth | 34 | 0% | 12 | 62.7% | 1 |
| Reading | 22 | -50% | 12 | 58.6% | 41 |
| Southampton | 43 | +115% | 26 | 62.4% | 48 |
| Surrey | 238 | +8.2% | 112 | 61.1% | 918 |
| Sussex | 236 | +22.3% | 88 | 65.3% | 1,588 |
8 reports
East of England
| Location | New development charges, 12m | Change | Exits filed, 12m | Book over 24 months | New-build sales, settled 12m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridgeshire | 76 | +2.7% | 46 | 67.8% | 1,683 |
| Essex | 303 | -1.3% | 110 | 62.9% | 2,485 |
| Hertfordshire | 210 | +28% | 84 | 61.9% | 1,265 |
| Luton | 32 | +14.3% | 7 | 64.9% | 19 |
| Norfolk | 118 | +29.7% | 35 | 61.5% | 1,438 |
| Norwich | 26 | n/a | 5 | 68.3% | 39 |
| Peterborough | 16 | -5.9% | 7 | 76.0% | 342 |
| Suffolk | 100 | +78.6% | 24 | 58.6% | 1,455 |
8 reports
South West
| Location | New development charges, 12m | Change | Exits filed, 12m | Book over 24 months | New-build sales, settled 12m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | 92 | +43.8% | 51 | 68.4% | 95 |
| Bristol | 88 | +31.3% | 35 | 59.9% | 132 |
| Devon | 155 | +29.2% | 62 | 59.5% | 1,652 |
| Dorset | 125 | +42% | 77 | 70.7% | 642 |
| Plymouth | 33 | -2.9% | 6 | 54.5% | 84 |
| Somerset | 83 | +40.7% | 46 | 62.1% | 1,158 |
| Swindon | 24 | +50% | 8 | 68.5% | 434 |
| Wiltshire | 59 | +11.3% | 30 | 67.0% | 973 |
3 reports
West Midlands
| Location | New development charges, 12m | Change | Exits filed, 12m | Book over 24 months | New-build sales, settled 12m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | 110 | +14.6% | 49 | 72.0% | 669 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 62 | +55% | 18 | 50.3% | 214 |
| Wolverhampton | 24 | +9.1% | 13 | 60.8% | 78 |
2 reports
East Midlands
| Location | New development charges, 12m | Change | Exits filed, 12m | Book over 24 months | New-build sales, settled 12m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derby | 30 | -11.8% | 10 | 61.7% | 294 |
| Nottingham | 56 | +64.7% | 25 | 59.7% | 56 |
2 reports
North West
| Location | New development charges, 12m | Change | Exits filed, 12m | Book over 24 months | New-build sales, settled 12m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liverpool | 145 | +90.8% | 52 | 65.6% | 188 |
| Manchester | 218 | +14.1% | 71 | 64.3% | 1,148 |
3 reports
North East
| Location | New development charges, 12m | Change | Exits filed, 12m | Book over 24 months | New-build sales, settled 12m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middlesbrough | 20 | -9.1% | 6 | 61.5% | 177 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 69 | +25.5% | 18 | 60.5% | 765 |
| Sunderland | 41 | +20.6% | 5 | 49.7% | 398 |
How the reports are built
Companies House charges (security instruments, not loans: no amounts, LTVs or rates). Development lending = charges held by specialist development lenders, or by development-active mixed lenders where the borrower carries SIC 41100/41202, the charge wording names development land or a site, or the borrower is a newly incorporated (within 12 months) SIC 68100 company with no buy-to-let SIC (the same rule as the national Development Exit Demand Tracker). Exit-type lending to developers = charges registered by bridging, specialist-bank and private-credit (funder) lenders against companies carrying SIC 41100/41202. A charge is placed by its charged-property postcode, or failing that the borrower's registered office. 'Satisfied' is the filed repayment of a charge: the exit. Exit refinance events are new charges registered on the same title after a specialist development lender's charge was repaid or released (charge stacks, same-group and same-company pairs excluded). Satisfactions are filed late, so the most recent six months are provisional and will rise. Lender categories come from the Construction Capital lender register; lenders are never named.
Land Registry registers new-build plot sales up to a year after completion, so new-build counts, shares and premiums are read only over the settled 12 months ending a year before the data vintage (settled12m) and compared with the 12 months before that. New-build figures in the most recent windows are incomplete and are not used for any headline.
Data vintage: charges to 2026-07-31, satisfactions to 2026-08-03, Land Registry to 2026-07-31. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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