Latest News | 22nd September 2021

HOUSING GROWTH PARTNERSHIP TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL £300 MILLION TO UK HOUSEBUILDERS

  • Housing Growth Partnership (‘HGP’) commits £300 million equity funding to SME and regional housebuilders
  • New fund aims to support the development of 10,000 new homes by 2025
  • Regional Growth Initiative will provide additional assistance to the most ambitious regional housebuilders in the UK

HOUSING GROWTH PARTNERSHIP II

The Housing Growth Partnership II (‘HGP’) has announced a new £300 million commitment to SME and regional housebuilders in the UK. The partnership aims to bridge the homebuilder funding gap, allowing housebuilders to build more homes across the UK and grow their businesses.

The new fund will support a wider range of housing tenures to meet the UK’s diverse and evolving housing needs. Building on the success of the first HGP fund announced in 2016, the new £300 million commitment will help HGP achieve its target of supporting the development of 10,000 new homes by 2025.

The new fund will be broader in scope to enable investment into larger housebuilding projects with a development value of up to £75 million. It will offer support for the delivery of a wider range of housing projects including Build to Rent, Regeneration and Retirement Living. The partnership will also look to prioritise projects with a greater sustainability focus, as well as those using modern methods of construction and other evolutionary construction methods.

Since its launch, the HGP has invested alongside 46 housebuilders to support the delivery of over 4,568 new homes, with nearly half now completed and sold to families across the UK.

Housing Minister RT Hon Christopher Pincher MP said: 

“It is a top priority of this Government to increase housing supply so hard-working people can be helped into home ownership.

“A thriving SME sector is crucial to our house building targets and ambitions. This significant amount of funding will help smaller and regional housebuilders by providing them with the financial support necessary to deliver much needed new homes.”

Vic Hepburn, CEO of Housing Growth Partnership, said: “We are pleased to be building on the success of the Housing Growth Partnership by extending the range of support we can provide to the UK housebuilding market. This includes our new multi-tenure approach which will provide more flexibility for housebuilders and more choice for homebuyers.

The introduction of the Regional Growth Initiative will also allow the Housing Growth Partnership to support the most ambitious housebuilders in a more substantial way with additional financial and strategic support.”

Harry Swales, Chief Investment Officer at Homes England, said: ‘The Housing Growth Partnership has already proved to be a huge public-private sector success and we’re now pleased to expand the fund to offer SMEs further support. By injecting this additional investment and harnessing Lloyds Banking Group’s commercial skills we’re able to diversify the market, support increasing numbers of builders and provide the homes the country needs.

 

REGIONAL GROWTH INITIATIVE

 The HGP fund will also partner with the most ambitious SME housebuilders in the UK to support their growth and development through its new Regional Growth Initiative. This scheme will see HGP committing a higher level of dedicated equity support to these housebuilders over a defined period to allow them to invest in their businesses and target larger and more strategic sites.

The first five regional partnerships are already in place across in four different regions of the UK with Genesis Homes, Durkan Homes, Stonewood Partnerships, Briar Homes and Cruden Homes.

The Regional Growth Initiative is being rolled out UK wide with the aim of trying to support the next generation of large regional housebuilders.

If you are a housebuilder looking to find out more, get in touch today with our team.

 

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