The Methodist Church’s Birmingham Circuit put two former manses up for auction in October 2024: a three-bedroom detached house in Shirley at £395,000-plus and a four-bedroom semi in Rednal at £265,000-plus.

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.

Brazil’s 2024 floods in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul damaged 16 Lutheran churches and flooded more than 2,200 Lutheran families’ homes, a week after the church had held disaster response training.

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.

Ottawa approved rezoning of the Julian of Norwich Anglican Church site in Nepean for 84 affordable homes, including an eight-storey building with a church on the ground floor and 27 family townhomes.

A planning report recommended replacing Christ the Redeemer Parish Hall in Lagmore, west Belfast, with 43 social homes, citing significant housing need despite 98 objections over traffic and lost community facilities.

A Samoan Presbyterian church in Papatoetoe, South Auckland, which bought its grounds for $980,000 in 1993, sold about 16,500 square metres for around $20 million for about 100 homes and a new church.

Catholic Charities Housing began building 63 affordable senior apartments on an empty car park at Denver’s Church of All Saints, with funding from banks, the city, the state and the archdiocese.

Three former Latter-day Saint meetinghouse sites in Ogden, Utah, have been sold and rezoned for up to 92 homes, as the church says some buildings have reached the end of their useful life.

McKendree United Methodist Church in Nashville filled its 46,425 square feet with clinics, housing and services, and Norfolk United Methodist in Virginia used its space for transitional housing and free offices for small businesses.