Development exit report · H1 2026

Hull Development Exit Report, H1 2026

Who is lending to developers in Hull, 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.

53
New development charges, 12 months to June 2026 (+103.8%)
13
Development loans filed as repaid, same 12 months
50.0%
Live development book over 24 months old (60.6% nationally)
308
New-build sales, latest settled 12 months (+41.3%)
Matt Lenzie
Written and reviewed by Matt Lenzie Founder & Principal Broker · 25 years arranging development finance · Reviewed September 2026
In short

The biggest move in Hull over the year to June 2026: new development lending grew 103.8% to 53 charges. Behind it, registered new-build sales grew 41.3% to 308 over the latest settled year. The age of the local development book stands out: 50.0% of live charges are older than two years, against 60.6% for England and Wales. Planners approved 82 residential schemes in the last year, the next wave of exits.

Scorecard

Hull at a glance

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

SignalHullChangeBasisDirection
New development charges53+103.8%12 months to June 2026 vs the 12 months beforeUp
Development charges satisfied (exits filed)13n/a12 months to June 2026 vs the 12 months before; recent filings provisionalNot published
Exit-type lending to developers18n/abridging, specialist-bank and private-credit charges on development companiesNot published
Live development book over 24 months old50.0%-10.6 ptsat 30 June 2026, compared with 60.6% across England and WalesBelow national
New-build sales registered308+41.3%settled 12 months (registration lag allowed for) vs the 12 months beforeUp
New developer and property companies142+10.9%SIC 41100, 41202, 68100 by registered office; live register onlyUp
Companies House · development lending

Development lending and exits in Hull

Development lenders registered 53 new charges against sites and developers in Hull in the 12 months to June 2026, against 26 in the 12 months before (+103.8%). Those charges were taken by 33 separate borrowing companies.

On the other side of the ledger, 13 development loans were filed as repaid, 0.25 for every new charge against 0.4 nationally. The local book is still growing faster than it clears.

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. Repayments are filed late, so the latest six months are provisional.

Hull: development charges registered and satisfied by quarter, 2022 Q1 to 2026 Q2; faded bars are provisional because repayments are filed late
New development chargesSatisfied (loan repaid)
010203040New development charges, 2022 Q1: 2Satisfied, 2022 Q1: 02022New development charges, 2022 Q2: 2Satisfied, 2022 Q2: 2New development charges, 2022 Q3: 3Satisfied, 2022 Q3: 0New development charges, 2022 Q4: 5Satisfied, 2022 Q4: 2New development charges, 2023 Q1: 4Satisfied, 2023 Q1: 12023New development charges, 2023 Q2: 5Satisfied, 2023 Q2: 0New development charges, 2023 Q3: 3Satisfied, 2023 Q3: 1New development charges, 2023 Q4: 4Satisfied, 2023 Q4: 0New development charges, 2024 Q1: 0Satisfied, 2024 Q1: 22024New development charges, 2024 Q2: 3Satisfied, 2024 Q2: 4New development charges, 2024 Q3: 5Satisfied, 2024 Q3: 4New development charges, 2024 Q4: 10Satisfied, 2024 Q4: 1New development charges, 2025 Q1: 5Satisfied, 2025 Q1: 12025New development charges, 2025 Q2: 6Satisfied, 2025 Q2: 0New development charges, 2025 Q3: 6Satisfied, 2025 Q3: 2New development charges, 2025 Q4: 18Satisfied, 2025 Q4: 4New development charges, 2026 Q1: 21 (censored by registration lag)Satisfied, 2026 Q1: 5 (censored by registration lag)2026New development charges, 2026 Q2: 8 (censored by registration lag)Satisfied, 2026 Q2: 2 (censored by registration lag)

Companies House charge register, Construction Capital analysis

Companies House · exit-type lending

Bridging and specialist lending to Hull developers

Bridging lenders, specialist banks and funds took 18 charges over Hull development companies in the year to June 2026 (n/a on the 4 of the year before).

Specialist and challenger banks held the largest number, 12. The first half of 2026 alone brought 8, against 2 in the first half of 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.

Hull: exit-type lending to developers bridging, specialist-bank and private-credit charges on development companies, rolling four quarters
051015202022 Q42023 Q42024 Q42026 Q2Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2022 Q4: 6Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2023 Q1: 4Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2023 Q2: 7Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2023 Q3: 6Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2023 Q4: 5Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2024 Q1: 9Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2024 Q2: 11Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2024 Q3: 11Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2024 Q4: 11Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2025 Q1: 7Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2025 Q2: 4Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2025 Q3: 4Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2025 Q4: 12Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2026 Q1: 16Exit-type charges, rolling 4Q, 2026 Q2: 18Charges 18

Companies House charge register, Construction Capital analysis

Companies House · lender categories

Who is lending in Hull

Specialist money (bridging, specialist banks, development lenders and funds) accounted for 92.9% of matched property charges in Hull, compared with 88.4% for England and Wales. That 5 point premium marks a market that relies more heavily on short-term and specialist capital.

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 June 2026
Specialist and challenger banksBridging lendersHigh-street banksDevelopment lenders, funds and other
HullHull, Specialist and challenger banks: 72.3%72%Hull, Bridging lenders: 20.0%20%Hull, High-street banks: 7.1%Hull, Development lenders, funds and other: 0.6%E and WE and W, Specialist and challenger banks: 60.5%61%E and W, Bridging lenders: 27.5%28%E and W, High-street banks: 11.5%12%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 July 2025 shows 308 new homes sold in Hull, compared with 218 in the year before. New-build made up 10.2% of all sales (8.3% nationally).

Buyers paid 65.8% more for a new house, on median prices.

Across the whole market, 2,929 homes changed hands in the 12 months to January 2026, up 5% 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.

Hull: new-build sales registered by half-year; faded bars sit inside the registration lag and will rise
050100150200New-build sales, 2022 H1: 1762022 H1New-build sales, 2022 H2: 1672022 H2New-build sales, 2023 H1: 1202023 H1New-build sales, 2023 H2: 1302023 H2New-build sales, 2024 H1: 992024 H1New-build sales, 2024 H2: 1352024 H2New-build sales, 2025 H1: 1712025 H1New-build sales, 2025 H2: 48 (censored by registration lag)2025 H2New-build sales, 2026 H1: 0 (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

Hull City Council approved 82 residential applications between 20 September 2025 and 20 September 2026, with 54 still pending. By type: 28 other relevant, 21 conversion, 17 change of use.

At least 343 homes are consented, counting only the 30 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.

Companies House · registrations

New developer companies

Company formation is an early pipeline signal: 142 new property and development companies in Hull over the latest year, 42 registered as developers (SIC 41100 or 41202).

H1 2026 brought 74 against 85 in H1 2025.

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

Hull against England and Wales

MeasureHullChangeEngland and WalesChange
New development charges, 12 months53+103.8%9,544+11.7%
Development charges satisfied, 12 months13n/a3,785+21.1%
Live development book at 30 June 202615041,855
Share of live book over 24 months old50.0%60.6%
Exit-type lending to developers, 12 months18n/a5,241+3.4%
New-build sales, settled 12 months308+41.3%68,506-6.1%
New-build share of sales, settled 12 months10.2%8.3%
New developer and property companies, 12 months142+10.9%61,275+7%
What it means

What this means for developers exiting in Hull

Up: new development lending, new-build sales, new companies. Down: none.

A younger book means fewer schemes in distress, but a wave of completions to come. Lining up exit terms before practical completion keeps options open.

More new-build sales being registered means buyers are there, which makes exit loans easier to size.

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 Hull 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 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. 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 2026-07-31, satisfactions filed to 2026-08-03, company register snapshot 2026-08-01, Land Registry transactions to 2026-07-31. Area covered: City Of Kingston Upon Hull (local authority boundaries). Minimum sample 30. 17 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 Hull: common questions

Is development lending rising in Hull?

Yes: 53 new development charges in the year to June 2026, +103.8% on the previous 12 months, according to the Companies House charge register.

How old are development loans in Hull?

50.0% of the 150 development charges live in Hull at the end of June 2026 had been in place for over two years, against 60.6% nationally.

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.

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