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Housebuilding (Q1)

Housing starts fell in Q1, as the wider housing market slowdown caught up with the newbuild sector. Indeed, with newbuild transactions now falling, we think the housebuilding recovery has reached a hiatus, with starts unlikely to see a meaningful rise this year.

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