The NextGeneration Launch Event took place on April 30th to announce the 2025 Benchmark results. The event was hosted both in person at JLL’s Central London office and streamed online. JLL’s Head of Sustainability Consulting for EMEA, Paul Stepan hosted the event, guiding discussions on this year’s theme, celebrating 20 years of benchmarking, and Simon Peacock, Head of Strategic Clients & UK Regions at JLL, delivered an insightful keynote speech.

Following the keynote speech, the highly anticipated 2025 Benchmark results were announced, and awards were presented to this year’s top-performing homebuilders.

NextGeneration 2025 Sustainability Benchmark Results

Latimer has secured top position in the NextGeneration Benchmark. After ranking fourth in 2023 and second in 2024, this achievement underscores Latimer’s dedication to enhancing the sustainability of its homes and operations. London Square showed substantial improvement, rising from fourth to second place, while Bellway Homes gained 10 points, rising from 9th to 3rd place and surpassing the Gold Award threshold. Rounding out the top five are Hill Group and Taylor Wimpey, both achieving Silver Awards. There has also been a notable score improvement from non-member Keepmoat, who has risen from 11th to 6th place, with an increase of 4 points from 2024.

In addition to securing the top position in the NextGeneration Benchmark, Latimer are recognised for the transparency and quality of their sustainability reporting through achieving the NextGeneration Crystal Award, which celebrates the homebuilder that meets the most criteria through publicly available information alone.

In addition to achieving the highest score on the benchmark, Latimer also won the Crystal Award, for achieving the highest score based purely on publicly available information.

James Parker, Senior Sustainability Manager, Latimer by Clarion Housing Group said: “The NextGeneration Benchmark has been a great tool for us to measure our sustainability performance each year. From starting our sustainability journey five years ago we have been able to see the results of our efforts reflected in our NextGeneration score, and confirm our progress to become the highest scoring not-for-profit house builder. Having a clear set of criteria has allowed us to set suitable targets and provide direction to our project teams, who are ultimately the people behind our successes.”

The Launch Event also marked the release of the 2025 NextGeneration report, now available to download . The theme this year is celebrating 20 years of benchmarking, and our spotlights focus on what constitutes good business management amongst homebuilders and best practice for sustainable homes in this evolving landscape.

NextGeneration 2026 Evolution

At the Launch Event the NextGeneration team announced that the Benchmark is evolving for 2026 onwards, to better support homebuilders deliver sustainable homes and places. Historically the Benchmark has assessed both public and internal sustainability information, but for the next cycle, NextGeneration will only focus on publicly available information. Furthermore, the criteria will be streamlined to more specifically focus on high-impact metrics that will continue to drive meaningful change within the sector.

For homebuilders, this will mean:

• You can access detailed insights of your performance against the sector through results presentations, which would be available for a smaller fee than membership.
• The criteria will be more streamlined reducing the reporting burden on you.
• Time will no longer be required for collating internal evidence as part of Phase 2.

If you have any further questions about NextGeneration, or would like to engage with the NextGeneration Benchmark, please reach out to Erica.Spencer@jll.com.