The Construction & Capital Podcast

Ealing is up 0.8% year on year in February 2026, in a Greater London market down 3.3%. 410 basis points above the regional benchmark, and into the rare 2026 outperformer bracket alongside its sister Crossrail boroughs Walthamstow at +5.9% and Redbridge at +5.3%. The structural reason is six Elizabeth Line stations inside the borough boundary, the most Crossrail catchment of any London borough. Eal...

Hounslow is at -1.2% year on year in February 2026 — in a Greater London market down 3.3%. 210 basis points above the regional benchmark and into the structural-resilience tier alongside Brent at -2.0%, sitting 660 basis points clear of the inner-west prime correction at Hammersmith & Fulham (-7.8%) and within touching distance of sister Crossrail neighbour Ealing at +0.8% to the north. Hounsl...

If you took just one number out of London property in 2026, it would be £650 per square foot. That is the line Molior identifies as the binary divide between viable and undeliverable for residential schemes across Greater London. Below it the maths does not work. Above it schemes are being built. The most striking implication: of the 281,000 unbuilt consented homes across the 33 London boroughs, o...

Walthamstow Property Development Finance 2026: Why E17 Is Outperforming London by 9 Points Short description (≤300 chars, Apple, Spotify previews) Greater London is down 3.3%. Walthamstow is up 5.9%. The 9-point divergence is reshaping how lenders price every London scheme. Eleven minutes on why the borough is the outlier, the £650/sqft viability test, the full April 2026 capital stack, and what i...

Greater Manchester is doing what almost no other UK property market can do right now: growing on every fundamental that matters. In this episode of the Construction Capital podcast, we unpack the data, the policy, and the capital stack reality shaping development opportunities across Greater Manchester in 2026. The headline numbers tell a regional outperformance story. Manchester's average house p...

London's housing market has split in two, and most property developers are reading only half the story. In this episode of the Construction Capital podcast, we unpack the data, the policy, and the capital stack reality shaping development opportunities across Greater London in 2026. The headline numbers are stark. London's average house price is down 3.3% year on year to £542,000, the seventh cons...

West Yorkshire is one of the most interesting UK property markets right now. Anchored by Leeds, the largest financial centre outside London, the county is home to the largest regeneration site in Europe, a UK City of Culture afterglow driving Bradford's growth, and institutional build-to-rent capital flowing in at scale. In this episode we work through the numbers, town by town, and unpack what th...