Nation · data to August 2026
House prices in England
Homes in England sold for an average £293,525, up 0.4% on a year ago. Over the last six months prices moved at +1.6% a year, about the same as the +1.1% a year of the past two years.
- Average sale price
- £293,525
- Change in a year
- +0.4%
- −3.0% after inflation
England: +9.5% in 5 years
Average sale price per home, £, monthly, with the next 12 months' expected path
- England
- United Kingdom
- Expected path
- 80% range
Show the numbers
| Month | England | United Kingdom |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 2027 · Expected path | £298,140 (£281,982–£314,298) | £280,154 |
| Jul 2027 · Expected path | £297,755 (£282,488–£313,023) | £279,560 |
| Jun 2027 · Expected path | £297,371 (£283,010–£311,732) | £278,967 |
| May 2027 · Expected path | £296,986 (£283,550–£310,422) | £278,374 |
| Apr 2027 · Expected path | £296,602 (£284,114–£309,089) | £277,781 |
| Mar 2027 · Expected path | £296,217 (£284,707–£307,727) | £277,188 |
| Feb 2027 · Expected path | £295,832 (£285,337–£306,328) | £276,595 |
| Jan 2027 · Expected path | £295,448 (£286,015–£304,880) | £276,002 |
| Dec 2026 · Expected path | £295,063 (£286,762–£303,365) | £275,409 |
| Nov 2026 · Expected path | £294,679 (£287,609–£301,749) | £274,816 |
| Oct 2026 · Expected path | £294,294 (£288,620–£299,968) | £274,223 |
| Sep 2026 · Expected path | £293,910 (£289,969–£297,850) | £273,630 |
| Aug 2026 | £293,525 | £273,037 |
| Jul 2026 | £292,882 | £272,146 |
| Jun 2026 | £291,674 | £270,690 |
| May 2026 | £292,907 | £272,221 |
| Apr 2026 | £292,164 | £270,966 |
| Mar 2026 | £290,133 | £268,631 |
| Feb 2026 | £291,263 | £269,423 |
| Jan 2026 | £290,474 | £268,814 |
| Dec 2025 | £289,280 | £268,002 |
| Nov 2025 | £291,892 | £270,472 |
| Oct 2025 | £290,975 | £269,819 |
| Sep 2025 | £290,689 | £269,556 |
| Aug 2025 | £292,319 | £270,575 |
| Jul 2025 | £290,212 | £268,843 |
| Jun 2025 | £288,115 | £266,796 |
| May 2025 | £285,526 | £264,078 |
| Apr 2025 | £280,500 | £260,162 |
| Mar 2025 | £291,748 | £268,019 |
| Feb 2025 | £287,794 | £264,771 |
| Jan 2025 | £287,264 | £264,936 |
| Dec 2024 | £287,035 | £263,991 |
| Nov 2024 | £286,814 | £264,515 |
| Oct 2024 | £287,595 | £265,252 |
| Sep 2024 | £287,576 | £264,750 |
| Aug 2024 | £287,343 | £265,085 |
| Jul 2024 | £284,105 | £262,479 |
| Jun 2024 | £281,611 | £259,585 |
| May 2024 | £280,824 | £258,565 |
| Apr 2024 | £277,945 | £256,478 |
| Mar 2024 | £276,971 | £255,082 |
| Feb 2024 | £276,935 | £254,633 |
| Jan 2024 | £278,060 | £255,972 |
| Dec 2023 | £278,664 | £256,177 |
| Nov 2023 | £281,026 | £258,368 |
| Oct 2023 | £283,147 | £260,129 |
| Sep 2023 | £284,428 | £261,318 |
| Aug 2023 | £285,690 | £262,602 |
| Jul 2023 | £284,246 | £261,182 |
| Jun 2023 | £281,585 | £258,275 |
| May 2023 | £279,846 | £257,330 |
| Apr 2023 | £280,054 | £256,479 |
| Mar 2023 | £279,592 | £255,885 |
| Feb 2023 | £283,907 | £258,788 |
| Jan 2023 | £285,817 | £260,941 |
| Dec 2022 | £288,198 | £263,190 |
| Nov 2022 | £290,003 | £265,299 |
| Oct 2022 | £289,993 | £265,693 |
| Sep 2022 | £290,185 | £265,727 |
| Aug 2022 | £289,294 | £265,124 |
| Jul 2022 | £286,526 | £262,904 |
| Jun 2022 | £281,116 | £258,118 |
| May 2022 | £278,084 | £255,040 |
| Apr 2022 | £274,812 | £252,167 |
| Mar 2022 | £272,225 | £249,232 |
| Feb 2022 | £271,265 | £248,309 |
| Jan 2022 | £270,231 | £248,031 |
| Dec 2021 | £267,793 | £245,189 |
| Nov 2021 | £265,662 | £243,930 |
| Oct 2021 | £259,748 | £239,236 |
| Sep 2021 | £268,041 | £245,371 |
Reports for England
Each report opens the full series and the assumptions behind these figures.
Sale prices have an 80% chance of landing between £281,982 and £314,298 by August 2027.
- Expected, August 2027
- £298,140
- Chance of a rise
- 64%
At the average sale price, a home costs £293,525. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is £1,354 a month. The UK sets no cap on the payment; no more than 15% of new mortgages may lend over 4.5 times income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 21%
- Payment, one income
- 41%
Owning the average home costs less each month than renting it. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at the average sale price; rent is the average of all private tenancies. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.
- Rent per month
- £1,466
- Owning per month
- £1,382
9.3% fewer homes were started in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Started, 12 months
- 135,780
- Per 1,000 residents
- 2.3
Figures for United Kingdom: England has no reliable figures of its own.
Buyers living abroad bought 1.8% of the homes sold here in the four quarters to Q1 2025.
- Bought by buyers abroad, 12 months
- 1.8%
Sale prices have fallen by 3% or more 7 times since 1968. The deepest began in September 2007.
- Deepest fall
- −18.2%
- Recovery from the low
- 62 months
In 2025 the population grew by 228,010 while 139,960 homes were finished: 1.6 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2025
- 1.6
- Population change, 2025
- +228,010
5.4% of the 24,927,588 homes counted in the 2021 census had nobody usually living in them.
- Empty, 2021 census
- 5.4%
- Empty homes
- 1,352,135
In 2025, 10% of the homes added came from existing buildings rather than new ones.
- Homes from existing buildings, 2025
- 10%
Councils in England
Average price
- £400,000 and over
- £300,000 to £400,000
- £250,000 to £300,000
- £200,000 to £250,000
- £150,000 to £200,000
- Under £150,000
- No published price
| Local authority | Average price | In a year |
|---|---|---|
| Kensington and Chelsea | £1,204,072 | −13.8% |
| Westminster | £887,206 | −14.3% |
| Richmond upon Thames | £813,931 | 0.0% |
| Camden | £798,486 | −10.6% |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | £754,825 | −5.1% |
| Elmbridge | £735,548 | +0.7% |
| City of London | £726,633 | −14.6% |
| Wandsworth | £694,210 | −5.3% |
| St Albans | £655,974 | +3.2% |
| Islington | £654,286 | −8.6% |
| Haringey | £633,221 | −1.4% |
| Merton | £623,791 | +0.1% |
| Hackney | £619,408 | −1.6% |
| Kingston upon Thames | £597,587 | +4.9% |
| Barnet | £592,892 | −4.4% |
| Three Rivers | £590,232 | +0.9% |
| Ealing | £589,875 | +1.8% |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | £583,688 | −0.2% |
| Southwark | £569,160 | −2.1% |
| Epsom and Ewell | £566,163 | +3.2% |
| Waverley | £559,306 | −2.0% |
| Brent | £555,687 | −0.3% |
| Hertsmere | £553,008 | +1.5% |
| Mole Valley | £552,344 | +1.4% |
| Lambeth | £540,198 | −6.5% |
| Guildford | £537,660 | +0.6% |
| Sevenoaks | £535,810 | +0.4% |
| Waltham Forest | £532,212 | +0.7% |
| Harrow | £532,173 | −2.5% |
| Epping Forest | £530,653 | −0.3% |
| Hounslow | £528,051 | −1.5% |
| Brentwood | £522,672 | +0.3% |
| Bromley | £520,253 | −0.5% |
| Tandridge | £506,774 | −1.1% |
| Wokingham | £491,944 | −2.5% |
| Lewisham | £486,416 | −1.6% |
| Reigate and Banstead | £485,856 | +0.3% |
| Redbridge | £484,378 | −2.8% |
| Hillingdon | £482,137 | 0.0% |
| Oxford | £478,080 | −2.9% |
| Buckinghamshire | £477,450 | 0.0% |
| Enfield | £474,855 | +0.8% |
| Hart | £472,755 | +0.7% |
| Runnymede | £472,507 | −1.2% |
| South Oxfordshire | £471,427 | +2.2% |
| Cambridge | £470,360 | −2.2% |
| Uttlesford | £468,166 | +0.1% |
| Greenwich | £462,868 | −2.2% |
| Sutton | £458,954 | +1.5% |
| Surrey Heath | £457,981 | +1.5% |
| East Hertfordshire | £455,973 | +1.9% |
| Winchester | £453,188 | +0.1% |
| Tunbridge Wells | £452,845 | −0.1% |
| Dacorum | £450,935 | +0.1% |
| Tower Hamlets | £447,950 | −13.3% |
| Welwyn Hatfield | £446,043 | +0.7% |
| Havering | £444,572 | +1.1% |
| Horsham | £441,491 | −0.5% |
| South Cambridgeshire | £441,410 | +0.2% |
| Spelthorne | £440,812 | −1.6% |
| East Hampshire | £440,599 | −1.7% |
| Woking | £437,628 | −2.7% |
| Mid Sussex | £431,904 | −0.8% |
| Chichester | £428,364 | −2.7% |
| Cotswold | £426,296 | −2.3% |
| North Hertfordshire | £422,835 | +3.1% |
| West Oxfordshire | £416,123 | −2.3% |
| Bexley | £414,833 | +1.9% |
| Broxbourne | £414,692 | +2.3% |
| Vale of White Horse | £411,712 | +4.6% |
| Watford | £408,659 | −0.4% |
| Brighton and Hove | £408,240 | −2.1% |
| Bath and North East Somerset | £406,084 | −1.8% |
| Tonbridge and Malling | £405,507 | −0.1% |
| Rochford | £405,340 | +0.5% |
| West Berkshire | £401,830 | −0.4% |
| Croydon | £396,718 | −1.5% |
| Stratford-on-Avon | £396,711 | +1.3% |
| Maldon | £393,909 | +1.3% |
| Trafford | £393,897 | +6.4% |
| Bracknell Forest | £391,521 | −2.3% |
| Newham | £388,045 | −4.7% |
| New Forest | £384,564 | −0.2% |
| Wealden | £380,679 | −1.6% |
| Adur | £378,990 | 0.0% |
| Chelmsford | £376,682 | −2.4% |
| Lewes | £374,305 | +1.5% |
| Basingstoke and Deane | £373,551 | +2.2% |
| Test Valley | £372,289 | −0.8% |
| Warwick | £370,924 | +1.5% |
| Barking and Dagenham | £369,881 | +4.7% |
| Basildon | £366,218 | +0.4% |
| South Hams | £360,616 | +0.8% |
| Castle Point | £357,241 | −4.0% |
| Cherwell | £355,981 | +2.6% |
| Central Bedfordshire | £355,263 | +0.1% |
| Bristol | £353,596 | +0.9% |
| Stroud | £353,416 | +2.2% |
| Maidstone | £352,878 | −1.1% |
| Reading | £350,501 | −0.4% |
| Malvern Hills | £349,550 | +4.3% |
| Slough | £349,397 | +0.4% |
| East Devon | £345,256 | +2.1% |
| Gravesham | £342,498 | +0.3% |
| Dartford | £342,167 | −4.9% |
| Derbyshire Dales | £341,776 | −0.4% |
| Harborough | £341,706 | +5.0% |
| Ashford | £340,991 | −0.8% |
| East Cambridgeshire | £340,059 | +2.0% |
| Lichfield | £339,176 | +2.7% |
| Canterbury | £336,427 | −0.3% |
| Rother | £335,680 | −1.9% |
| South Gloucestershire | £335,572 | +1.0% |
| Fareham | £334,303 | +0.5% |
| Bromsgrove | £332,683 | +1.2% |
| Crawley | £332,097 | +1.5% |
| Solihull | £332,022 | +0.2% |
| Babergh | £331,207 | +0.9% |
| Bedford | £330,462 | +1.1% |
| Braintree | £330,089 | +1.6% |
| Rushcliffe | £329,528 | −1.0% |
| Dorset | £328,589 | −0.4% |
| Cheltenham | £328,178 | +0.9% |
| Wiltshire | £328,102 | +1.5% |
| Rushmoor | £326,799 | 0.0% |
| Southend-on-Sea | £326,132 | 0.0% |
| Milton Keynes | £323,868 | +0.5% |
| North Gloucestershire | £323,497 | +0.2% |
| Wychavon | £322,210 | −0.4% |
| Arun | £320,505 | −1.2% |
| Thurrock | £319,969 | −1.4% |
| Havant | £319,869 | −0.3% |
| Stockport | £319,016 | +3.9% |
| Mid Suffolk | £317,979 | +5.3% |
| Harlow | £317,453 | +4.3% |
| North Somerset | £314,307 | +3.6% |
| Broadland | £313,806 | +2.8% |
| Eastleigh | £312,753 | +2.9% |
| Cheshire East | £311,897 | +4.5% |
| York | £311,865 | +0.7% |
| Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | £310,176 | −1.9% |
| Stevenage | £309,123 | −2.1% |
| South Staffordshire | £308,695 | +2.3% |
| South Norfolk | £307,735 | −0.2% |
| Rutland | £307,406 | −2.7% |
| Huntingdonshire | £306,954 | +1.1% |
| Folkestone and Hythe | £302,106 | −0.7% |
| Worthing | £299,075 | −5.0% |
| Teignbridge | £298,159 | −0.5% |
| Medway | £297,757 | +0.5% |
| Forest of Dean | £296,807 | +1.1% |
| Swale | £296,578 | +0.6% |
| West Suffolk | £295,860 | −0.5% |
| Colchester | £294,210 | −1.4% |
| Blaby | £293,412 | +3.4% |
| Herefordshire | £291,495 | +1.9% |
| West Northamptonshire | £289,726 | +0.2% |
| Exeter | £289,403 | −0.7% |
| West Devon | £286,921 | −1.5% |
| Melton | £286,469 | +4.1% |
| North Norfolk | £286,315 | −4.4% |
| Mid Devon | £285,982 | +0.2% |
| Luton | £285,800 | +0.1% |
| Ribble Valley | £284,529 | +1.6% |
| Dover | £282,945 | +0.4% |
| Somerset | £282,498 | +2.8% |
| North West Leicestershire | £282,397 | +1.7% |
| North Devon | £280,441 | −4.2% |
| Rugby | £278,324 | −2.2% |
| East Suffolk | £277,949 | −2.3% |
| Shropshire | £277,521 | −0.9% |
| Cornwall | £274,570 | −2.9% |
| Cheshire West and Chester | £270,534 | +3.7% |
| Charnwood | £270,351 | +0.4% |
| North Yorkshire | £270,080 | +1.7% |
| Thanet | £268,549 | −0.8% |
| North Warwickshire | £268,337 | +2.5% |
| Torridge | £267,174 | +0.3% |
| Breckland | £266,835 | −0.3% |
| King's Lynn and West Norfolk | £266,248 | +2.6% |
| High Peak | £265,635 | +6.4% |
| South Kesteven | £265,305 | +4.0% |
| Swindon | £263,685 | +2.8% |
| Tendring | £260,636 | −1.2% |
| Stafford | £260,446 | +3.5% |
| South Derbyshire | £259,537 | +2.0% |
| Warrington | £259,224 | +2.8% |
| Hinckley and Bosworth | £258,960 | −0.1% |
| Worcester | £257,871 | +1.6% |
| Oadby and Wigston | £257,504 | −1.5% |
| Manchester | £256,760 | +2.1% |
| Eastbourne | £255,642 | −0.7% |
| North East Derbyshire | £253,012 | +5.3% |
| North Northamptonshire | £252,884 | +0.1% |
| Broxtowe | £251,231 | −4.0% |
| Redditch | £247,042 | −1.7% |
| Leeds | £246,385 | +2.4% |
| Portsmouth | £245,954 | +0.1% |
| Isle of Wight | £245,670 | −1.1% |
| Gedling | £245,028 | +2.1% |
| Bury | £243,107 | +2.8% |
| North Kesteven | £242,384 | +1.4% |
| West Lancashire | £240,850 | +5.6% |
| Gosport | £240,093 | +1.6% |
| Hastings | £238,780 | −2.5% |
| Gloucester | £237,705 | +2.2% |
| Newark and Sherwood | £236,524 | +3.2% |
| Southampton | £235,729 | +0.8% |
| Birmingham | £234,867 | +1.5% |
| Dudley | £233,819 | +3.4% |
| Wyre Forest | £233,740 | +0.3% |
| Tamworth | £232,956 | −0.1% |
| Amber Valley | £232,141 | +2.7% |
| Peterborough | £231,634 | −1.3% |
| Cannock Chase | £231,333 | −1.3% |
| Westmorland and Furness | £231,161 | +5.1% |
| Fylde | £230,340 | +0.9% |
| East Staffordshire | £229,876 | +2.0% |
| Coventry | £227,721 | +3.8% |
| Norwich | £227,535 | −2.0% |
| Leicester | £226,881 | −1.5% |
| Nuneaton and Bedworth | £226,730 | −0.2% |
| Ipswich | £226,175 | +2.4% |
| South Holland | £226,156 | +1.8% |
| Fenland | £224,770 | +2.9% |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | £224,481 | +5.1% |
| Salford | £223,323 | −1.7% |
| Plymouth | £223,229 | +3.2% |
| Telford and Wrekin | £221,853 | +1.2% |
| Wirral | £221,673 | +5.8% |
| Torbay | £221,469 | −3.1% |
| Sefton | £221,105 | +2.0% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | £219,871 | +0.4% |
| Erewash | £218,506 | +1.4% |
| Sheffield | £217,603 | +0.6% |
| Oldham | £217,214 | +4.6% |
| Walsall | £216,878 | +2.6% |
| Chorley | £216,624 | +4.2% |
| Wolverhampton | £215,801 | +2.7% |
| Northumberland | £213,113 | +4.5% |
| Tameside | £213,026 | +1.4% |
| South Ribble | £212,563 | +2.6% |
| Bassetlaw | £211,488 | +2.7% |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | £211,255 | +5.8% |
| Rochdale | £211,022 | +3.3% |
| West Lindsey | £210,754 | +1.2% |
| Derby | £210,076 | +2.7% |
| Kirklees | £208,427 | +5.1% |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | £208,269 | +5.2% |
| East Lindsey | £208,075 | −0.9% |
| Sandwell | £207,065 | 0.0% |
| North Tyneside | £205,554 | +3.7% |
| Great Yarmouth | £204,630 | −1.6% |
| Bolton | £203,951 | +4.8% |
| Lancaster | £203,781 | +4.6% |
| Chesterfield | £202,519 | +3.0% |
| Rossendale | £201,483 | +4.9% |
| Wakefield | £199,283 | +2.9% |
| Calderdale | £197,651 | +7.8% |
| Wigan | £194,393 | +2.8% |
| Knowsley | £191,550 | +1.6% |
| Rotherham | £191,052 | +0.7% |
| Nottingham | £189,547 | −1.8% |
| Ashfield | £189,498 | +2.3% |
| Halton | £189,435 | −2.3% |
| Wyre | £188,833 | +1.8% |
| Liverpool | £188,427 | +4.7% |
| Preston | £188,103 | +3.6% |
| St. Helens | £186,445 | +5.1% |
| Bradford | £185,297 | +2.1% |
| Mansfield | £184,895 | −2.0% |
| Bolsover | £183,198 | +1.5% |
| Lincoln | £182,294 | +0.3% |
| North Lincolnshire | £180,345 | +3.0% |
| Boston | £180,174 | −1.1% |
| Barnsley | £173,053 | +2.0% |
| Doncaster | £172,770 | +3.8% |
| Stockton-on-Tees | £172,698 | +3.1% |
| Cumberland | £172,654 | +4.1% |
| Blackburn with Darwen | £160,727 | −0.2% |
| South Tyneside | £160,518 | +2.5% |
| Darlington | £159,770 | +1.9% |
| Gateshead | £156,036 | +4.4% |
| Pendle | £156,011 | +9.0% |
| Stoke-on-Trent | £150,112 | −0.2% |
| Sunderland | £147,763 | +4.6% |
| North East Lincolnshire | £146,370 | +4.2% |
| Redcar and Cleveland | £146,259 | −3.0% |
| Hyndburn | £142,964 | +7.6% |
| Middlesbrough | £142,868 | +3.7% |
| County Durham | £140,788 | +4.9% |
| Blackpool | £138,065 | +5.5% |
| Burnley | £136,703 | +6.0% |
| Hartlepool | £136,625 | +4.7% |
| Kingston upon Hull | £136,593 | +6.6% |