UK housebuilding has fallen on the steepest fee in additional than a decade - outdoors of the pandemic years - as excessive borrowing prices affect demand, in keeping with a intently watched survey.

The June downturn in housebuilding was "steep and accelerated", in keeping with the S&P Global/CIPS building buying managers' index (PMI).

Residential building decreased on the quickest tempo since March 2020, when the nation entered COVID-19 lockdown for the primary time.

When the lockdown drop is excluded, final month noticed the quickest fall since April 2009, when the financial system reeled from the worldwide monetary crash.

Survey respondents blamed excessive borrowing prices - brought on by the Bank of England's programme of rate hikes in response to stubbornly high inflation. Also recognized as an inhibitor was the "subdued" outlook for the housing market.

Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist for Pantheon Macroeconomics, stated larger mortgage charges have "triggered a plunge in housebuilding".

He added: "June's construction PMI suggests that interest rates now have risen far enough to push the sector into a renewed downturn."

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House prices have been falling after a big rise throughout the pandemic.

However, the weak demand, mixed with fewer provide bottlenecks, did assist enhance supply occasions for building providers and supplies.

There was a discount in new orders throughout the development trade for the primary time since January, the survey stated.

Also helped by the discount in residential building have been buying costs, which fell for the primary time in additional than 12 years.

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While housebuilding slowed, building corporations stated that they had elevated work on infrastructure initiatives.

The greatest performing section of the trade was civil engineering, through which enterprise exercise rose on the second-fastest tempo since June 2022.