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Labour’s housebuilding drive will push down prices, says minister

Matthew Pennycook says far-reaching reform is needed to ‘get more volume out of the system’ and deliver more homes

The UK housing minister has argued that house prices will fall in the long term as the government encourages developers to compete on volume and deliver more homes.

A housing strategy due in the coming weeks will encourage alternative business models to those used by large developers, as well as a bigger role for the state.

Matthew Pennycook, housing minister, told the FT: “The private market as it’s currently constituted will not on its own initiative, even if it’s highly competitive, produce sufficient housing to meet overall housing need.”

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