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 "notes": [
  "Completions recorded by councils' building control and the NHBC. Homes signed off by private approved inspectors are not counted.",
  "StatsWales notes that some councils did not send every quarterly return, among them Gwynedd for 2025–26; its table gives figures for those quarters without saying how they were made. England counts its new homes differently, so its figures are on their own page."
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