UK Private Housing RMI 2025-2029: Market Size, Trends & Future Outlook

The latest UK Private Housing RMI Market Report 2025-2029 examines the size and performance of the market in recent years, market shares and performance of individual sectors within residential RMI, as well as key trends and market influences. The report provides an analysis of recent market performance and forecasts to 2029.

The UK private housing RMI market is valued at approximately £39.6 billion in 2024, with a projected decline of 3% to £38.5 billion in 2025 due to the ongoing cost-of-living squeeze.

Contractor output in private housing RMI was £35.3bn in 2024 and accounts for some 89% of the total spend on private housing RMI. Contractor activity has slightly over-performed against the total market. This reflects the type of RMI activity being undertaken as well as a small trend to ‘do it for me’ rather than DIY. Inevitably the more complex tasks are assigned to contractors, who are also favoured by increases in regulations such as in the electrical installation sector.

The DIY sector represents an estimated 11% of the total market. DIY remains popular due to its cost-effectiveness, while the lack of available tradespeople also tends to steer some people to the DIY sector. Further market growth influences come from social media and online platforms with a host of “how-to” videos stimulating activity. Nonetheless, there tend to be limits to the DIY capabilities of most homeowners.