Fordhouses Methodist Church in Wolverhampton, closed in 2020 and later condemned after a partial roof collapse exposed asbestos, sold for £205,000 and faces demolition for nine new homes under a developer’s plan.

The Lutheran Church of Australia sold its under-used North Adelaide college campus, which cost $400,000 a year to maintain, for more than $50 million, with a developer planning at least 50 homes priced from $3.5 million.

The former First Church of the Nazarene building in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has sold for $665,000 to developer Abe Atiyeh, who plans to rent worship space to several smaller churches and let a house on the site.

The United Church of Christ sold its nine-storey Cleveland headquarters for $4.5 million to a developer planning about 120 apartments, and moved to smaller leased offices to spend more on mission.

A 100-member Colorado Springs church began building a $23 million, 77-apartment affordable housing project on its land with a developer partner, the first new affordable housing in the city’s south-east in 20 years.

A Washington, DC, Pentecostal church partnered with developer Foulger-Pratt on a $72 million, 197-apartment building in the Navy Yard neighbourhood that includes a new 17,000-square-foot sanctuary on the ground floor.