Generation Housing Partners bought Templo De Alabanza’s 6.5-acre site in West Oak Cliff, Dallas, to build HiLine Illinois, a 200-unit complex aimed mainly at lower-income households, as the congregation prepared to relocate.

A former Wesleyan chapel in Stoford, empty since 1984, is on sale for £170,000 with full planning consent to become a one-bedroom home, though it sits in a conservation area and a flood zone.

Turning Point Community Church in Lubbock, Texas, bought the closed Cinemark Movies 16 and plans to turn about 60 per cent of it into a sanctuary and children’s space, gaining the accessibility its main campus lacks.

Dorset Council approved converting Weymouth’s Wyke Regis Methodist Church, unused since 2021, into six flats with no on-site parking, despite objections from neighbours, the civic society and the town council.

A new developer bought St Luke’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, out of bankruptcy for $9 million, the third attempt to convert the landmarked building, shut for a decade, into homes. The last owner had paid $13.5 million.

A former Free Gospel church near Atlanta’s Beltline, sold to developer CDW Partners for $800,000 in 2021, is being converted into six rental apartments while the congregation relocated to Lakewood.

The conversion of Toronto’s former High Park Alhambra church into 70 condos went into receivership owing $42.2 million to Meridian Credit Union, with construction halted and most units already pre-sold.

A developer who paid $13.5 million for the former St Luke’s Lutheran Church in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, has filed for bankruptcy after five years, a $15.1 million loan default and a foreclosure suit, with the landmarked building still boarded up.

Turkey formally reopened Istanbul’s Byzantine Chora Church as a mosque in 2024, after it had served as a mosque from the 16th century and as a museum from 1945, with its mosaics covered during prayers.

A 2024 RICS Modus article looked at how Church of England property is being reused, from 23 affordable homes on a Gloucester church hall site to a Cornish church school turned into five homes, amid a 200,000-acre estate.