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Live sample coverage from TikTok · United Kingdom · Category read for the Home Builders Federation · August 16, 2026

UK housebuilding. Watched closely.

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Trending narrative
The Home Builders Federation itself is close to invisible on social, so this is a read on the category it speaks for. In it, a homeowner's snagging list is a content format, and professional inspectors have become the industry's loudest critics with the builder reckoned none of this was a problem as the recurring line.
Trending now · pulled from dig
Narrative intelligence

The stories driving the UK housebuilding conversation.

Narratives, not hashtags. dig surfaces the meaning behind each clip, ranking the stories by momentum and breaking them down by generation.

Trending now · last 7 days

What people really think about UK housebuilding right now.

Pre-crisis radar · for comms

The narratives that haven't hit yet.

Early negative signals that give comms a head start before the story spreads.

Emerging signals · last 14 days
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Owned content vs. UGC

Who's actually calling the UK housebuilding conversation.

Two scoping decisions worth knowing. This is a category read because HBF as an organisation returns almost nothing on its own. And it is scoped to the industry conversation: the single largest clip in the raw data, at 3.3 million views, was immigration politics attached to housing rather than anything about building homes, and that layer is left out on purpose.

Owned vs. UGC reach · last 30 days
~10%vs~90%
Owned share · UGC share of UK housebuilding TikTok reach (30d)
Builder-owned accounts are excluded from every number here, including Persimmon's, whose posts would otherwise sit fifth and eighth on this list. What remains is buyers, trades and independent inspectors.
Top 6 creators · last 7 days
See the creators moving UK housebuilding's new-build housing conversation.
Creator type, narratives, follower counts, and recommended actions.
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The house codes

New-home joy, first-time buyer guidance, trades creators, developers who show their working, the snagging genre, the inspector economy. Tracked.

Each part of the new-build conversation with the thread running underneath it, and the thing a trade body would want to know before a select committee raises it.

Portfolio signal · last 30 days
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Each product line's top narrative and the surprise signal comms may not see coming yet. Visible only to dig customers.
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From signal to next move

The actions your team can take this week.

The creator to engage, the narrative to get ahead of, and the talking point that needs to be ready before the story moves.

Your next moves.
The creator to seed, the narrative to boost, and the talking point to sharpen this week.
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