Accredited official statistics

Social housing sales and demolitions 2024-25: Shared ownership

Published 12 February 2026

Applies to England

1. Headline figures

From 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025: 18,603 initial (or first tranche) Shared Ownership sales were completed by large private registered providers and local authorities, an increase of 2% compared with 2023-24. 17,975 were by large private registered providers and 628 were by local authorities. These two groups of providers do not provide full coverage of the Shared Ownership market.

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Of those reported, an estimated 70% of private registered provider Shared Ownership sales were to first-time buyers.

This statistical release reports on the initial sales (or first tranche) of shared ownership dwellings, and characteristics of these purchases. Data on the number of fully staircased sales, i.e. those where the tenants have reached 100% equity, by local authorities and large private registered providers can be found in the main Social Housing Sales and Demolitions report.

Unless otherwise stated, values quoted in this release will report on Shared ownership (old and new model leases), Older People’s Shared Ownership (OPSO), Social HomeBuy Shared Ownership, Home Ownership for People with long-term disabilities (HOLD), Rent to Buy Shared Ownership and Right to Shared Ownership) as a combined figure.

The completion of some fields in CORE Sales ^{[footnote 2]} is not mandatory. Some missing information on mortgage and deposit is imputed during data processing. For the purpose of this release, analysis of financial figures only includes sales that have no missing data following imputation in market value, initial equity stake, mortgage value and deposit. In 2022-23, 12% of Shared Ownership sales logs were removed for this reason, whereas in 2023-24 and 2024-25, due to improved validation in the CORE Sales form, all logs contained complete financial information after imputation. The averages given in this section refer to the arithmetic mean unless otherwise stated. 

2. Characteristics of Shared Ownership purchases

2.1 Household characteristics

Shared Ownership is a scheme targeted at first-time buyers who cannot afford the full market cost of a property. In 2024-25, of those reported, an estimated 70% of private registered provider Shared Ownership purchases were made by first-time buyers. 30% of Shared Ownership purchases were made by buyers under the age of 30 and a further 34% aged between 30-39^{[footnote 3]}.

In 2024-25, an estimated 46% of purchases were made by single adult households, a slight decrease compared with 47% of purchases in 2023-24. 24% of purchases were made by households of 2 adults with no children, while 20% were made by households with children. The share for single-adult households and 2 adults with no children households has been declining in recent years, from 51% in 2019-20 to 46% in 2024-25 and from 30% in 2019-20 to 24% in 2024-25, respectively. Over the same period, the share of households with children has increased from 11% in 2019-20 to 20% in 2024-25. Further historical data are available in Live Table 696. 

Figure 3.1 Household composition of Shared Ownership purchases from 2008-09 to 2024-25

The data for this chart are available in the Live Table 696.

2.2 Financial information

The average market price in 2024-25 was £323,700, up 3% compared with 2023-24, with an average initial equity stake of £121,100. Overall, the average initial equity stake was 38%. The average deposit was £22,200, a decrease of £600 compared with 2023-24, but the third-highest value since this was first reported in 2008-09.

The graph below shows that over the last 15 years, the average (mean) market price of Shared Ownership properties has increased from £164,600 to £323,700, an increase of 97%. Between April 2009 and March 2025, the average house price in England increased by 91% ^{[footnote 4]}, showing that the price change of Shared Ownership properties generally increased faster than the wider housing market. During this period, the average equity percentage obtained by buyers remained relatively steady between 37-43%. Further data can be found in Live Table 697.

Figure 3.2 Average market value and average equity of Shared Ownership purchases 2008-09 to 2024-25

The data for this chart are available in the Live Table 697.

2.3 Property types

In 2024-25, 68% of Shared Ownership sales were houses, while 31% were flats or maisonettes. The remaining 1% were bungalows, bedsits and other property types, ^{[footnote 5]}.

This profile of property type of Shared Ownership sales has changed considerably over the years. In 2008-09, 41% of Shared Ownership sales were houses, while the majority were made up by flats or maisonettes (58%). This profile gradually changed in the following years, and by 2016-17, the majority of Shared Ownership sales were houses, which has remained true since.

2.4 Resales

A Shared Ownership resale refers to the sale of an existing Shared Ownership home by the current leaseholder, rather than a first sale by a developer or provider. They are a first tranche sale to a new leaseholder. 

In 2024–25, 20% of Shared Ownership transactions recorded in CORE were resales of existing Shared Ownership homes. The remaining transactions were sales of new Shared Ownership units. This proportion has been stable since 2021-22. Previously, it decreased from 40% in 2016-17 to 20% in 2021-22.

Flats and maisonettes accounted for 46% of resale property types, while new sales were at 27%. This aligns with historical time‑series trends, where resale activity consistently shows a higher proportion of flat and maisonette sales compared with new sales

3. Delivery of Low Cost Home Ownership schemes

In the section below, the term “Low Cost Home Ownership schemes” is used as an umbrella term for Shared Ownership and Affordable Home Ownership. This is because before 2014-15 it is not possible to separate Shared Ownership from other Low Cost Home Ownership delivery.

In 2024-25, there were 20,353 new Shared Ownership properties delivered, a decrease of 3% compared with 2023-24, but still the third-highest number recorded since Shared Ownership delivery was recorded in 2014-15. Of these 20,353 Shared Ownership properties, 20,026 were new build ^{[footnote 6]}.

The graph below shows how the delivery of Low Cost Home Ownership properties has changed over the course of the last 34 years ^{[footnote 7]}. As can be seen from the chart, since 2015-16 there was a continuous increase in the number of Shared Ownership properties delivered, with the first decrease in 5 years seen in 2020-21. This decrease may be due in part to the restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2024-25, delivery of Low Cost Home Ownership properties fell very slightly from the previous year, its highest point since the peak in 2008-09. These values exclude First Homes tenure, which was introduced in 2021-22.

Figure 3.3 Delivery of Low Cost Home Ownership properties 1991-92 to 2024-25, England

The data for this chart are available in the Affordable Housing Supply statistics.

1. Figures sourced from ‘SDR25_LCHO’ table of Statistical Data Return data release and Section B of the Local Authority Housing Statistics. These two groups of providers do not provide full coverage of the Shared Ownership market. Small private registered providers and non-registered providers are not included. ↩

2. The COntinuous REcording of social housing sales is a data collection run by the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) to collect information on sales of properties by registered providers of social housing. It does not capture all Shared Ownership sales. ↩

3. Source: Live Table 695 ↩

4. Source: UK House Price Statistics ↩

5. Source: Live Table 698 ↩

6. All figures in this section are sourced from the Affordable Housing Supply statistics. ↩

7. Low Cost Home Ownership does not include First Homes. ↩