Development exit report · Q3 2026

Barking and Dagenham Development Exit Report, Q3 2026

Who is lending to developers in Barking and Dagenham, how many schemes are exiting their development loans, and how quickly new homes are selling. Built from Companies House charges, Land Registry sales and council planning data.

15
New development charges, 12 months to September 2026 (-53.1%)
1
Development loans filed as repaid, same 12 months
58.4%
Live development book over 24 months old (61.3% nationally)
88
New-build sales, latest settled 12 months (-4.3%)
Published by DevExit Data updated November 2026
In short

In Barking and Dagenham, new development lending fell 53.1% to 15 charges, the sharpest change of any signal we track for the borough. Next largest, registered new-build sales fell 4.3% to 88 over the latest settled year. Of the 113 development charges still live in Barking and Dagenham at 30 September, 58.4% had been running for more than 24 months, fewer than the national average. On the planning side, 72 residential applications were approved in the latest 12-month window.

Barking and Dagenham is a small market on the charge register (fewer than 30 new development charges in the year), so percentages built on those charges are suppressed. The counts are published as they stand.

Scorecard

Barking and Dagenham at a glance

How each signal moved over the year, measured the same way for every location we report on.

SignalBarking and DagenhamChangeBasisDirection
New development charges15-53.1%12 months to September 2026 vs the 12 months beforeDown
Development charges satisfied (exits filed)1n/a12 months to September 2026 vs the 12 months beforeNot published
Exit-type lending to developers1n/abridging, specialist-bank and private-credit charges on development companiesNot published
Live development book over 24 months old58.4%-2.9 ptsat 30 September 2026, compared with 61.3% across England and WalesBelow national
New-build sales registered88-4.3%settled 12 months (registration lag allowed for) vs the 12 months beforeFlat
New developer and property companies508-0.6%SIC 41100, 41202, 68100 by registered office; live register onlyFlat
Companies House · development lending

Development lending and exits in Barking and Dagenham

7 borrowers, 15 charges: that is the scale of new development lending in Barking and Dagenham in the year to September 2026, compared with 32 charges a year earlier.

Repayments ran at 1 over the same 12 months. The sample is too small to express as a ratio.

A charge is the security a lender registers at Companies House. It shows that a loan was taken and when it was repaid (satisfied), not how much was lent. A quarter-end is provisional until 30 days after the data cut-off, because filings arrive late.

Barking and Dagenham: development charges registered and satisfied by quarter, 2022 Q1 to 2026 Q3
New development chargesSatisfied (loan repaid)
05101520New development charges, 2022 Q1: 4Satisfied, 2022 Q1: 12022New development charges, 2022 Q2: 0Satisfied, 2022 Q2: 0New development charges, 2022 Q3: 5Satisfied, 2022 Q3: 2New development charges, 2022 Q4: 5Satisfied, 2022 Q4: 0New development charges, 2023 Q1: 3Satisfied, 2023 Q1: 62023New development charges, 2023 Q2: 0Satisfied, 2023 Q2: 1New development charges, 2023 Q3: 1Satisfied, 2023 Q3: 1New development charges, 2023 Q4: 6Satisfied, 2023 Q4: 0New development charges, 2024 Q1: 4Satisfied, 2024 Q1: 02024New development charges, 2024 Q2: 5Satisfied, 2024 Q2: 0New development charges, 2024 Q3: 3Satisfied, 2024 Q3: 2New development charges, 2024 Q4: 3Satisfied, 2024 Q4: 0New development charges, 2025 Q1: 13Satisfied, 2025 Q1: 32025New development charges, 2025 Q2: 8Satisfied, 2025 Q2: 0New development charges, 2025 Q3: 8Satisfied, 2025 Q3: 2New development charges, 2025 Q4: 6Satisfied, 2025 Q4: 0New development charges, 2026 Q1: 3Satisfied, 2026 Q1: 02026New development charges, 2026 Q2: 4Satisfied, 2026 Q2: 0New development charges, 2026 Q3: 2Satisfied, 2026 Q3: 1

Companies House charge register, Construction Capital analysis

Companies House · exit-type lending

Bridging and specialist lending to Barking and Dagenham developers

The exit and refinance market in Barking and Dagenham registered 1 charges on development companies over the latest year, from 6.

Most came from specialist and challenger banks (1). Comparing the same quarter a year apart, 1 in Q3 2026 against 2 in Q3 2025.

Exit-type lending counts charges registered by bridging lenders, specialist banks and private credit funds against companies whose registered business is developing buildings (SIC 41100 or 41202). It is the market that refinances development debt at completion and funds the sales period.

Barking and Dagenham: exit-type lending to developers bridging, specialist-bank and private-credit charges on development companies, rolling four quarters
024682022 Q42023 Q42024 Q42025 Q42026 Q3Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2022 Q4: 5Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2023 Q1: 3Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2023 Q2: 4Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2023 Q3: 2Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2023 Q4: 3Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2024 Q1: 3Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2024 Q2: 2Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2024 Q3: 2Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2024 Q4: 1Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2025 Q1: 2Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2025 Q2: 4Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2025 Q3: 6Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2025 Q4: 5Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2026 Q1: 4Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2026 Q2: 2Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2026 Q3: 1Charges 1

Companies House charge register, Construction Capital analysis

Companies House · lender categories

Who is lending in Barking and Dagenham

Of 475 property charges in Barking and Dagenham we could match to a lender type, 89.1% sat with specialist lenders (national: 87.5%). The local market leans on specialist capital about as much as the country does.

Lenders are grouped by category from the Construction Capital lender register and never named.

Who holds the charges: lender categories share of register-matched property charges, 12 months to September 2026
Specialist and challenger banksBridging lendersHigh-street banksDevelopment lenders, funds and other
BarkingBarking, Specialist and challenger banks: 75.2%75%Barking, Bridging lenders: 13.7%14%Barking, High-street banks: 10.9%11%Barking, Development lenders, funds and other: 0.2%E and WE and W, Specialist and challenger banks: 60.0%60%E and W, Bridging lenders: 27.1%27%E and W, High-street banks: 12.5%13%E and W, Development lenders, funds and other: 0.5%

Companies House charge register, Construction Capital analysis

Land Registry · sales

How quickly new homes are selling

The settled Land Registry year to September 2025 shows 88 new homes sold in Barking and Dagenham, compared with 92 in the year before. New-build made up 6.2% of all sales (8.1% nationally).

Buyers paid 45% more for a new flat than a second-hand one, on median prices.

Across the whole market, 1,218 homes changed hands in the 12 months to April 2026, down 16.6% on the year before.

Land Registry registers new-build plot sales up to a year after completion, so new-build figures use the latest settled 12 months. Prices are transaction-sample medians, not a like-for-like index.

Barking and Dagenham: new-build sales registered by half-year; faded bars sit inside the registration lag and will rise
0100200300400New-build sales, 2022 H1: 1512022 H1New-build sales, 2022 H2: 2032022 H2New-build sales, 2023 H1: 1132023 H1New-build sales, 2023 H2: 1002023 H2New-build sales, 2024 H1: 502024 H1New-build sales, 2024 H2: 752024 H2New-build sales, 2025 H1: 162025 H1New-build sales, 2025 H2: 25 (censored by registration lag)2025 H2New-build sales, 2026 H1: 21 (censored by registration lag)2026 H1

HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Construction Capital analysis

Planning · pipeline

The next wave of schemes needing an exit

Between 1 July 2025 and 30 September 2026, 72 residential applications were approved (35 new build, 20 conversion, 10 care or institutional) and 30 awaited a decision.

At least 142 homes are consented, counting only the 61 approvals that state a number.

Residential applications from council planning portals over each council's latest 12-month window. Unit counts are only stated on some applications, so unit totals are a floor.

Largest approved schemes (stated units)UnitsTypeDecided
Near Rm8 2ux14new build2026-03-05
Near Rm5 2ea13new build2026-07-31
9new build2025-07-17
Near Ig11 7ln6new build2026-07-31
Near Rm8 2jb6conversion2026-05-28
Companies House · registrations

New developer companies

New single-purpose companies are where most schemes start. Barking and Dagenham added 508 in the year to September 2026, down 0.6% on the prior year, 255 of them developers.

There were 127 in the quarter, against 140 in the same months of the previous year.

Companies registered with SIC 41100, 41202 or 68100, placed by registered office. The register lists live companies only, so earlier periods lose companies since dissolved.

Benchmark

Barking and Dagenham against England and Wales

MeasureBarking and DagenhamChangeEngland and WalesChange
New development charges, 12 months15-53.1%9,562+11.3%
Development charges satisfied, 12 months1n/a3,908+21.2%
Live development book at 30 September 202611342,944
Share of live book over 24 months old58.4%61.3%
Exit-type lending to developers, 12 months1n/a5,002-0.4%
New-build sales, settled 12 months88-4.3%67,091-7.1%
New-build share of sales, settled 12 months6.2%8.1%
New developer and property companies, 12 months508-0.6%58,644-5.1%
What it means

What this means for developers exiting in Barking and Dagenham

Up: none. Down: new development lending.

The local book is younger than the national one, pointing to newer schemes and fewer overruns. Here the exit question is about planning the refinance before completion, not rescuing late schemes.

Terms depend on the scheme, the sales evidence and the developer, and no finance is guaranteed. We are a finance broker, not a lender. Development exit finance for companies is unregulated lending.

Read how a development exit loan is sized, or compare the national picture in the Development Exit Demand Tracker. Local market detail sits on our development exit finance in Barking and Dagenham page.

Methodology and sources

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 a quarter-end stays provisional until 30 days after the data cut-off. 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. HMLR Price Paid, standard (category A) residential sales (detached, semi, terraced, flat) in the location's local authorities. New-build premium compares the median new-build price with the median existing-stock price within flats and within houses; it is a transaction-sample median, not a constant-quality index. Registrations lag completions by weeks to months, so the most recent months (and new-build plots especially) understate final counts; trailing-12-month figures are the steadier read.

Residential planning applications (new build, conversion, prior approval, mixed use, HMO, demolition and rebuild) from the Construction Capital council-portal scrapes, one record set per authority, over each council's rolling 12-month scrape window. Unit counts are stated only on some applications, so totals undercount. Councils not yet scraped are listed as missing, never estimated.

New companies with SIC 41100, 41202 or 68100 by registered-office postcode. The register snapshot holds live companies only, so earlier windows lose companies since dissolved; read year-on-year change as indicative.

Data vintage: charges registered to 2026-10-30, satisfactions filed to 2026-11-02, company register snapshot 2026-11-01, Land Registry transactions to 2026-09-30. Area covered: Barking And Dagenham (local authority boundaries). Minimum sample 30. 22 cuts suppressed for sample size.

Sources: Companies House charge register, Construction Capital analysis; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Construction Capital analysis; Council planning portals, Construction Capital planning scrape. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Companies House data is public and reused under the Open Government Licence.

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FAQ

Development exit in Barking and Dagenham: common questions

How many developers borrowed in Barking and Dagenham last year?

7 development companies registered 15 charges to development lenders in the 12 months to September 2026, and 1 development loans were filed as repaid over the same period.

How many Barking and Dagenham schemes are past a normal development term?

Measured by charge age, 58.4% of the live development book in Barking and Dagenham was older than 24 months at 30 September 2026. The national figure was 61.3%.

What is development exit finance?

A short-term loan taken at or near practical completion. It repays the development lender and funds the sales or letting period, often at a lower rate than the development loan it replaces, and can release equity for the next scheme. Our development exit finance page covers how it is sized and priced.

Where does this data come from?

Companies House charges and company registrations, HM Land Registry Price Paid Data and council planning portals, all analysed by Construction Capital. Figures below the minimum sample of 30 are suppressed, and lenders are grouped into categories rather than named.

Completing a scheme in Barking and Dagenham?

Send us the scheme, the current facility and the sales position and we will give a view on the exit options and indicative terms.