Official Statistics

UK House Price Index England: December 2016

Published 14 February 2017

Applies to England

1. Headline statistics for December 2016:

the average price of a property in England was

£236,424

the annual price change of a property in England was

7.7%

the monthly price change of a property in England was

1.6%

the index figure for England was 115.5 (January 2015 = 100)

116.5

Estimates for the most recent months are provisional and are likely to be updated as more data is incorporated into the index. Read the revision policies.

2. Price change

2.1 Annual price change

Annual price change for England and London over the past 5 years

Annual price change for England and London over the past 5 years

Annual price change by local authority for England

Local authorities December 2016 December 2015 Difference
Adur £306,528 £274,772 11.6%
Allerdale £156,341 £137,339 13.8%
Amber Valley £159,617 £152,018 5.0%
Arun £272,778 £251,685 8.4%
Ashfield £128,597 £119,953 7.2%
Ashford £270,231 £247,182 9.3%
Aylesbury Vale £328,749 £290,731 13.1%
Babergh £272,886 £245,470 11.2%
Barking and Dagenham £288,927 £253,145 14.1%
Barnet £532,486 £501,293 6.2%
Barnsley £113,434 £108,843 4.2%
Barrow-in-Furness £114,984 £108,030 6.4%
Basildon £304,188 £259,285 17.3%
Basingstoke and Deane £292,580 £272,541 7.4%
Bassetlaw £146,296 £137,121 6.7%
Bath and North East Somerset £330,281 £290,898 13.5%
Bedford £275,122 £239,869 14.7%
Bexley £334,634 £295,744 13.1%
Birmingham £165,249 £153,448 7.7%
Blaby £205,163 £191,077 7.4%
Blackburn with Darwen £105,725 £101,542 4.1%
Blackpool £103,678 £99,394 4.3%
Bolsover £114,692 £112,891 1.6%
Bolton £123,937 £117,878 5.1%
Boston £139,346 £139,262 0.1%
Bournemouth £235,290 £219,350 7.3%
Bracknell Forest £357,793 £318,984 12.2%
Bradford £131,879 £126,299 4.4%
Braintree £266,743 £240,217 11.0%
Breckland £216,874 £193,674 12.0%
Brent £494,913 £468,584 5.6%
Brentwood £407,528 £377,732 7.9%
Brighton and Hove £346,829 £326,006 6.4%
Broadland £245,822 £226,988 8.3%
Bromley £436,204 £411,124 6.1%
Bromsgrove £260,227 £244,628 6.4%
Broxbourne £338,102 £304,863 10.9%
Broxtowe £164,162 £157,545 4.2%
Buckinghamshire £402,984 £362,749 11.1%
Burnley £74,317 £72,810 2.1%
Bury £153,143 £145,230 5.4%
Calderdale £134,387 £130,733 2.8%
Cambridge £403,682 £425,457 -5.1%
Cambridgeshire £277,359 £259,546 6.9%
Camden £866,973 £796,767 8.8%
Cannock Chase £150,805 £142,685 5.7%
Canterbury £286,040 £254,302 12.5%
Carlisle £131,757 £131,420 0.3%
Castle Point £290,334 £258,944 12.1%
Central Bedfordshire £293,956 £265,126 10.9%
Charnwood £203,000 £193,023 5.2%
Chelmsford £314,250 £288,862 8.8%
Cheltenham £249,729 £233,007 7.2%
Cherwell £286,847 £277,881 3.2%
Cheshire East £208,229 £197,781 5.3%
Cheshire West and Chester £190,869 £184,384 3.5%
Chesterfield £143,890 £138,222 4.1%
Chichester £357,952 £349,671 2.4%
Chiltern £552,929 £501,949 10.2%
Chorley £164,339 £164,130 0.1%
Christchurch £320,395 £301,509 6.3%
City of Bristol £259,791 £235,957 10.1%
City of Derby £148,437 £141,553 4.9%
City of Kingston upon Hull £107,878 £97,009 11.2%
City of London £763,748 £713,253 7.1%
City of Nottingham £127,415 £119,188 6.9%
City of Peterborough £173,907 £161,751 7.5%
City of Plymouth £165,898 £161,899 2.5%
City of Westminster £1,025,114 £1,013,417 1.2%
Colchester £250,365 £225,965 10.8%
Copeland £118,206 £121,440 -2.7%
Corby £162,553 £145,115 12.0%
Cornwall £216,030 £212,950 1.4%
Cotswold £361,684 £351,089 3.0%
County Durham £100,271 £97,867 2.5%
Coventry £165,940 £153,416 8.2%
Craven £203,425 £185,912 9.4%
Crawley £280,812 £254,257 10.4%
Croydon £365,564 £330,486 10.6%
Cumbria £151,395 £146,516 3.3%
Dacorum £407,422 £370,670 9.9%
Darlington £129,691 £122,254 6.1%
Dartford £290,231 £263,267 10.2%
Daventry £267,114 £236,411 13.0%
Derbyshire £162,512 £156,180 4.1%
Derbyshire Dales £241,664 £233,450 3.5%
Devon £246,016 £232,584 5.8%
Doncaster £121,477 £116,876 3.9%
Dorset £280,097 £266,893 4.9%
Dover £224,495 £207,869 8.0%
Dudley £155,824 £148,239 5.1%
Ealing £491,441 £475,935 3.3%
East Cambridgeshire £269,305 £246,216 9.4%
East Devon £271,640 £250,048 8.6%
East Dorset £331,239 £316,267 4.7%
East Hampshire £355,311 £332,586 6.8%
East Hertfordshire £381,416 £347,403 9.8%
East Lindsey £159,904 £153,239 4.3%
East Northamptonshire £210,847 £191,701 10.0%
East Riding of Yorkshire £164,807 £157,638 4.5%
East Staffordshire £174,295 £159,087 9.6%
East Sussex £262,452 £242,518 8.2%
Eastbourne £229,289 £207,237 10.6%
Eastleigh £267,728 £248,759 7.6%
Eden £186,201 £192,050 -3.0%
Elmbridge £587,885 £574,727 2.3%
Enfield £394,691 £359,625 9.8%
Epping Forest £446,118 £408,309 9.3%
Epsom and Ewell £454,016 £436,860 3.9%
Erewash £148,272 £140,922 5.2%
Essex £297,091 £266,133 11.6%
Exeter £247,445 £229,377 7.9%
Fareham £273,802 £255,979 7.0%
Fenland £172,950 £158,550 9.1%
Forest Heath £208,981 £187,754 11.3%
Forest of Dean £208,597 £201,962 3.3%
Fylde £185,191 £177,722 4.2%
Gateshead £125,673 £122,506 2.6%
Gedling £167,517 £158,141 5.9%
Gloucester £186,318 £170,471 9.3%
Gloucestershire £246,376 £230,149 7.1%
Gosport £192,873 £176,613 9.2%
Gravesham £270,259 £244,692 10.4%
Great Yarmouth £156,286 £147,129 6.2%
Greenwich £375,188 £360,228 4.2%
Guildford £445,524 £416,735 6.9%
Hackney £545,921 £528,858 3.2%
Halton £128,561 £126,672 1.5%
Hambleton £237,364 £224,952 5.5%
Hammersmith and Fulham £755,759 £771,960 -2.1%
Hampshire £301,043 £279,722 7.6%
Harborough £267,590 £249,418 7.3%
Haringey £556,116 £518,352 7.3%
Harlow £269,783 £235,364 14.6%
Harrogate £276,727 £264,837 4.5%
Harrow £463,166 £435,864 6.3%
Hart £407,491 £384,009 6.1%
Hartlepool £109,622 £104,543 4.9%
Hastings £192,866 £171,009 12.8%
Havant £256,842 £229,152 12.1%
Havering £353,659 £314,588 12.4%
Herefordshire £217,533 £213,601 1.8%
Hertfordshire £394,841 £358,487 10.1%
Hertsmere £470,043 £421,294 11.6%
High Peak £178,912 £169,776 5.4%
Hillingdon £415,840 £380,185 9.4%
Hinckley and Bosworth £196,175 £181,830 7.9%
Horsham £384,750 £341,991 12.5%
Hounslow £400,076 £368,802 8.5%
Huntingdonshire £247,429 £223,168 10.9%
Hyndburn £91,727 £89,541 2.4%
Ipswich £184,514 £162,893 13.3%
Isle of Wight £199,769 £194,302 2.8%
Islington £663,496 £638,445 3.9%
Kensington And Chelsea £1,317,424 £1,264,909 4.2%
Kent £276,612 £249,741 10.8%
Kettering £178,695 £166,789 7.1%
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk £199,060 £184,699 7.8%
Kingston upon Thames £487,011 £460,578 5.7%
Kirklees £141,368 £136,845 3.3%
Knowsley £118,536 £114,664 3.4%
Lambeth £521,422 £484,535 7.6%
Lancashire £136,185 £132,812 2.5%
Lancaster £149,017 £146,012 2.1%
Leeds £167,775 £161,551 3.9%
Leicester £153,000 £140,363 9.0%
Leicestershire £208,312 £194,249 7.2%
Lewes £307,104 £291,920 5.2%
Lewisham £419,005 £374,745 11.8%
Lichfield £232,947 £217,916 6.9%
Lincoln £139,215 £136,078 2.3%
Lincolnshire £167,187 £160,039 4.5%
Liverpool £119,968 £117,761 1.9%
Luton £226,975 £200,664 13.1%
Maidstone £276,034 £256,093 7.8%
Maldon £317,887 £273,454 16.2%
Malvern Hills £247,334 £233,722 5.8%
Manchester £156,632 £145,096 8.0%
Mansfield £123,898 £116,571 6.3%
Medway £232,861 £202,949 14.7%
Melton £210,524 £192,742 9.2%
Mendip £237,430 £220,231 7.8%
Merton £502,551 £490,898 2.4%
Mid Devon £217,439 £210,267 3.4%
Mid Suffolk £259,641 £234,484 10.7%
Mid Sussex £371,256 £338,606 9.6%
Middlesbrough £111,386 £111,961 -0.5%
Milton Keynes £248,122 £233,484 6.3%
Mole Valley £494,799 £454,728 8.8%
New Forest £318,227 £298,510 6.6%
Newark and Sherwood £169,462 £163,286 3.8%
Newcastle upon Tyne £161,255 £153,388 5.1%
Newcastle-under-Lyme £146,148 £135,641 7.7%
Newham £353,476 £319,493 10.6%
Norfolk £213,377 £195,412 9.2%
North Devon £227,504 £218,443 4.1%
North Dorset £252,776 £236,944 6.7%
North East Derbyshire £172,234 £162,855 5.8%
North East Lincolnshire £117,495 £108,505 8.3%
North Hertfordshire £337,287 £307,129 9.8%
North Kesteven £183,158 £174,853 4.7%
North Lincolnshire £134,597 £129,574 3.9%
North Norfolk £234,831 £216,631 8.4%
North Somerset £243,476 £227,326 7.1%
North Tyneside £157,069 £150,609 4.3%
North Warwickshire £189,201 £173,238 9.2%
North West Leicestershire £190,284 £176,914 7.6%
North Yorkshire £213,850 £201,906 5.9%
Northampton £190,844 £177,695 7.4%
Northamptonshire £207,391 £190,221 9.0%
Northumberland £151,607 £147,765 2.6%
Norwich £191,336 £177,726 7.7%
Nottinghamshire £162,474 £153,354 5.9%
Nuneaton and Bedworth £158,621 £144,605 9.7%
Oadby and Wigston £195,902 £178,897 9.5%
Oldham £122,354 £114,890 6.5%
Oxford £410,253 £387,778 5.8%
Oxfordshire £353,834 £329,147 7.5%
Pendle £91,428 £89,576 2.1%
Poole £291,945 £273,232 6.8%
Portsmouth £195,207 £182,160 7.2%
Preston £124,275 £121,469 2.3%
Purbeck £317,377 £289,784 9.5%
Reading £299,313 £282,024 6.1%
Redbridge £404,344 £369,059 9.6%
Redcar and Cleveland £118,684 £115,862 2.4%
Redditch £189,336 £174,552 8.5%
Reigate and Banstead £397,398 £380,503 4.4%
Ribble Valley £206,677 £203,588 1.5%
Richmond upon Thames £643,071 £640,645 0.4%
Richmondshire £206,388 £194,779 6.0%
Rochdale £121,490 £115,655 5.0%
Rochford £322,713 £290,531 11.1%
Rossendale £121,278 £118,217 2.6%
Rother £269,697 £255,583 5.5%
Rotherham £130,107 £123,979 4.9%
Rugby £217,537 £202,300 7.5%
Runnymede £408,244 £382,827 6.6%
Rushcliffe £260,533 £242,065 7.6%
Rushmoor £276,837 £262,916 5.3%
Rutland £299,387 £257,635 16.2%
Ryedale £220,517 £214,164 3.0%
Salford £144,614 £127,918 13.1%
Sandwell £130,004 £124,682 4.3%
Scarborough £158,375 £147,696 7.2%
Sedgemoor £207,223 £190,036 9.0%
Sefton £151,911 £147,298 3.1%
Selby £190,894 £179,575 6.3%
Sevenoaks £422,263 £383,376 10.1%
Sheffield £150,359 £144,767 3.9%
Shepway £232,546 £212,396 9.5%
Shropshire £204,818 £192,512 6.4%
Slough £301,009 £270,132 11.4%
Solihull £263,968 £244,187 8.1%
Somerset £218,678 £203,378 7.5%
South Bucks £592,870 £559,874 5.9%
South Cambridgeshire £365,022 £341,170 7.0%
South Derbyshire £178,119 £176,017 1.2%
South Gloucestershire £255,283 £235,692 8.3%
South Hams £295,550 £287,813 2.7%
South Holland £174,897 £158,559 10.3%
South Kesteven £194,046 £188,981 2.7%
South Lakeland £216,891 £211,036 2.8%
South Norfolk £252,918 £223,047 13.4%
South Northamptonshire £307,342 £282,637 8.7%
South Oxfordshire £410,726 £367,657 11.7%
South Ribble £162,255 £152,818 6.2%
South Somerset £215,989 £199,299 8.4%
South Staffordshire £208,478 £202,203 3.1%
South Tyneside £128,261 £121,657 5.4%
Southampton £198,835 £188,597 5.4%
Southend-on-Sea £265,223 £232,103 14.3%
Southwark £509,634 £488,642 4.3%
Spelthorne £371,748 £340,607 9.1%
St Albans £507,303 £467,606 8.5%
St Edmundsbury £269,595 £245,167 10.0%
St Helens £125,276 £112,024 11.8%
Stafford £191,447 £184,115 4.0%
Staffordshire £177,268 £167,629 5.7%
Staffordshire Moorlands £162,295 £155,913 4.1%
Stevenage £279,590 £243,988 14.6%
Stockport £202,486 £187,354 8.1%
Stockton-on-Tees £129,664 £130,104 -0.3%
Stoke-on-Trent £101,594 £99,527 2.1%
Stratford-on-Avon £309,485 £292,556 5.8%
Stroud £266,558 £241,359 10.4%
Suffolk £231,225 £209,209 10.5%
Suffolk Coastal £276,641 £246,239 12.3%
Sunderland £113,696 £109,278 4.0%
Surrey £439,509 £416,469 5.5%
Surrey Heath £396,820 £373,564 6.2%
Sutton £369,996 £341,717 8.3%
Swale £233,132 £203,884 14.3%
Swindon £204,160 £190,094 7.4%
Tameside £133,239 £123,019 8.3%
Tamworth £164,144 £157,575 4.2%
Tandridge £439,302 £414,611 6.0%
Taunton Deane £221,186 £205,846 7.5%
Teignbridge £235,965 £220,802 6.9%
Telford and Wrekin £155,402 £147,145 5.6%
Tendring £200,961 £180,943 11.1%
Test Valley £320,987 £289,903 10.7%
Tewkesbury £257,684 £242,375 6.3%
Thanet £216,344 £187,924 15.1%
Three Rivers £516,921 £489,481 5.6%
Thurrock £259,901 £229,484 13.3%
Tonbridge and Malling £359,106 £320,206 12.1%
Torbay £185,329 £181,506 2.1%
Torridge £215,021 £208,605 3.1%
Tower Hamlets £474,065 £444,125 6.7%
Trafford £261,316 £234,787 11.3%
Tunbridge Wells £368,363 £341,162 8.0%
Uttlesford £399,655 £359,280 11.2%
Vale of White Horse £354,967 £327,531 8.4%
Wakefield £140,114 £130,870 7.1%
Walsall £149,268 £137,914 8.2%
Waltham Forest £438,855 £386,441 13.6%
Wandsworth £626,488 £594,044 5.5%
Warrington £175,545 £168,266 4.3%
Warwick £294,359 £276,574 6.4%
Warwickshire £235,694 £219,348 7.5%
Watford £355,771 £316,319 12.5%
Waveney £177,842 £169,488 4.9%
Waverley £447,150 £422,066 5.9%
Wealden £321,153 £299,257 7.3%
Wellingborough £191,990 £175,352 9.5%
Welwyn Hatfield £376,447 £340,785 10.5%
West Berkshire £345,419 £325,369 6.2%
West Devon £241,110 £229,985 4.8%
West Dorset £267,922 £265,000 1.1%
West Lancashire £174,009 £166,192 4.7%
West Lindsey £159,369 £149,452 6.6%
West Oxfordshire £333,948 £306,807 8.8%
West Somerset £209,696 £212,075 -1.1%
West Sussex £316,964 £291,230 8.8%
Weymouth and Portland £214,429 £203,135 5.6%
Wigan £125,499 £118,118 6.2%
Wiltshire £261,371 £243,576 7.3%
Winchester £400,125 £379,851 5.3%
Windsor and Maidenhead £478,665 £460,641 3.9%
Wirral £149,543 £144,400 3.6%
Woking £404,595 £393,457 2.8%
Wokingham £431,409 £393,652 9.6%
Wolverhampton £135,018 £125,741 7.4%
Worcester £196,929 £186,878 5.4%
Worcestershire £221,332 £204,249 8.4%
Worthing £266,968 £247,495 7.9%
Wychavon £265,440 £236,138 12.4%
Wycombe £389,954 £351,829 10.8%
Wyre £144,226 £142,976 0.9%
Wyre Forest £175,063 £158,586 10.4%
York £242,389 £224,574 7.9%
England £236,424 £219,582 7.7%

Average price by local authority for England

Average price by local authority for England

2.2 Annual price change by London borough

Annual price change by London borough

London borough December 2016 December 2015 Difference
Barking and Dagenham £288,927 £253,145 14.1%
Barnet £532,486 £501,293 6.2%
Bexley £334,634 £295,744 13.1%
Brent £494,913 £468,584 5.6%
Bromley £436,204 £411,124 6.1%
Camden £866,973 £796,767 8.8%
City of London £763,748 £713,253 7.1%
City of Westminster £1,025,114 £1,013,417 1.2%
Croydon £365,564 £330,486 10.6%
Ealing £491,441 £475,935 3.3%
Enfield £394,691 £359,625 9.8%
Greenwich £375,188 £360,228 4.2%
Hackney £545,921 £528,858 3.2%
Hammersmith and Fulham £755,759 £771,960 -2.1%
Haringey £556,116 £518,352 7.3%
Harrow £463,166 £435,864 6.3%
Havering £353,659 £314,588 12.4%
Hillingdon £415,840 £380,185 9.4%
Hounslow £400,076 £368,802 8.5%
Islington £663,496 £638,445 3.9%
Kensington And Chelsea £1,317,424 £1,264,909 4.2%
Kingston upon Thames £487,011 £460,578 5.7%
Lambeth £521,422 £484,535 7.6%
Lewisham £419,005 £374,745 11.8%
Merton £502,551 £490,898 2.4%
Newham £353,476 £319,493 10.6%
Redbridge £404,344 £369,059 9.6%
Richmond upon Thames £643,071 £640,645 0.4%
Southwark £509,634 £488,642 4.3%
Sutton £369,996 £341,717 8.3%
Tower Hamlets £474,065 £444,125 6.7%
Waltham Forest £438,855 £386,441 13.6%
Wandsworth £626,488 £594,044 5.5%

Average price by London borough

Average price by London borough

2.3 Average price change by property type

Average price change by property type for England

Property type December 2016 December 2015 Difference
Detached £358,812 £331,013 8.4%
Semi-detached £218,802 £203,031 7.8%
Terraced £189,514 £177,739 6.6%
Flat or maisonette £223,008 £205,939 8.3%
All £236,424 £219,582 7.7%

3. Sales volumes

Due to a period of 2 to 8 weeks between completion and registration of sales, volume figures for the most recent two months are not yet complete, so they are not included in the report.

3.1 Sales volumes by local authority

Sales volumes for England by local authority: October 2016

Local authorities Sales volume
Adur 65
Allerdale 83
Amber Valley 157
Arun 204
Ashfield 163
Ashford 141
Aylesbury Vale 240
Babergh 113
Barking and Dagenham 141
Barnet 250
Barnsley 257
Barrow-in-Furness 106
Basildon 211
Basingstoke and Deane 189
Bassetlaw 155
Bath and North East Somerset 222
Bedford 184
Bexley 261
Birmingham 919
Blaby 139
Blackburn with Darwen 120
Blackpool 177
Bolsover 104
Bolton 312
Boston 68
Bournemouth 298
Bracknell Forest 125
Bradford 566
Braintree 242
Breckland 175
Brent 122
Brentwood 103
Brighton and Hove 331
Broadland 159
Bromley 352
Bromsgrove 128
Broxbourne 111
Broxtowe 137
Buckinghamshire 601
Burnley 121
Bury 237
Calderdale 227
Cambridge 80
Cambridgeshire 694
Camden 113
Cannock Chase 137
Canterbury 214
Carlisle 91
Castle Point 112
Central Bedfordshire 369
Charnwood 206
Chelmsford 234
Cheltenham 171
Cherwell 164
Cheshire East 512
Cheshire West and Chester 417
Chesterfield 124
Chichester 168
Chiltern 97
Chorley 134
Christchurch 89
City of Bristol 539
City of Derby 277
City of Kingston upon Hull 109
City of London 9
City of Nottingham 268
City of Peterborough 210
City of Plymouth 294
City of Westminster 114
Colchester 275
Copeland 78
Corby 86
Cornwall 736
Cotswold 115
County Durham 471
Coventry 325
Craven 58
Crawley 99
Croydon 313
Cumbria 551
Dacorum 199
Darlington 128
Dartford 133
Daventry 106
Derbyshire 968
Derbyshire Dales 87
Devon 1,081
Doncaster 298
Dorset 642
Dover 192
Dudley 292
Ealing 167
East Cambridgeshire 101
East Devon 231
East Dorset 133
East Hampshire 139
East Hertfordshire 159
East Lindsey 230
East Northamptonshire 117
East Riding of Yorkshire 419
East Staffordshire 122
East Sussex 757
Eastbourne 160
Eastleigh 175
Eden 59
Elmbridge 144
Enfield 204
Epping Forest 125
Epsom and Ewell 94
Erewash 155
Essex 1,980
Exeter 145
Fareham 126
Fenland 106
Forest Heath 82
Forest of Dean 112
Fylde 113
Gateshead 169
Gedling 140
Gloucester 180
Gloucestershire 846
Gosport 91
Gravesham 87
Great Yarmouth 135
Greenwich 184
Guildford 139
Hackney 137
Halton 93
Hambleton 85
Hammersmith and Fulham 98
Hampshire 1,608
Harborough 104
Haringey 133
Harlow 89
Harrogate 180
Harrow 142
Hart 151
Hartlepool 83
Hastings 126
Havant 142
Havering 226
Herefordshire 208
Hertfordshire 1,301
Hertsmere 113
High Peak 102
Hillingdon 216
Hinckley and Bosworth 137
Horsham 158
Hounslow 146
Huntingdonshire 238
Hyndburn 72
Ipswich 142
Isle of Wight 207
Islington 118
Kensington And Chelsea 86
Kent 1,945
Kettering 147
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk 207
Kingston upon Thames 132
Kirklees 439
Knowsley 109
Lambeth 219
Lancashire 1,381
Lancaster 168
Leeds 881
Leicester 269
Leicestershire 870
Lewes 114
Lewisham 180
Lichfield 122
Lincoln 126
Lincolnshire 1,056
Liverpool 387
Luton 158
Maidstone 210
Maldon 106
Malvern Hills 81
Manchester 496
Mansfield 139
Medway 331
Melton 57
Mendip 143
Merton 142
Mid Devon 99
Mid Suffolk 140
Mid Sussex 149
Middlesbrough 118
Milton Keynes 265
Mole Valley 90
New Forest 226
Newark and Sherwood 157
Newcastle upon Tyne 241
Newcastle-under-Lyme 135
Newham 145
Norfolk 1,174
North Devon 144
North Dorset 102
North East Derbyshire 103
North East Lincolnshire 167
North Hertfordshire 143
North Kesteven 158
North Lincolnshire 180
North Norfolk 158
North Somerset 266
North Tyneside 237
North Warwickshire 58
North West Leicestershire 133
North Yorkshire 685
Northampton 304
Northamptonshire 979
Northumberland 330
Norwich 145
Nottinghamshire 1,055
Nuneaton and Bedworth 151
Oadby and Wigston 67
Oldham 246
Oxford 114
Oxfordshire 676
Pendle 108
Poole 229
Portsmouth 193
Preston 134
Purbeck 49
Reading 166
Redbridge 235
Redcar and Cleveland 139
Redditch 91
Reigate and Banstead 169
Ribble Valley 60
Richmond upon Thames 170
Richmondshire 36
Rochdale 202
Rochford 95
Rossendale 93
Rother 170
Rotherham 243
Rugby 119
Runnymede 83
Rushcliffe 137
Rushmoor 86
Rutland 42
Ryedale 60
Salford 247
Sandwell 250
Scarborough 161
Sedgemoor 144
Sefton 308
Selby 91
Sevenoaks 116
Sheffield 503
Shepway 139
Shropshire 379
Slough 115
Solihull 255
Somerset 787
South Bucks 64
South Cambridgeshire 150
South Derbyshire 125
South Gloucestershire 298
South Hams 117
South Holland 139
South Kesteven 205
South Lakeland 131
South Norfolk 162
South Northamptonshire 100
South Oxfordshire 148
South Ribble 140
South Somerset 245
South Staffordshire 117
South Tyneside 98
Southampton 226
Southend-on-Sea 226
Southwark 190
Spelthorne 112
St Albans 171
St Edmundsbury 100
St Helens 166
Stafford 168
Staffordshire 1,018
Staffordshire Moorlands 138
Stevenage 71
Stockport 328
Stockton-on-Tees 200
Stoke-on-Trent 308
Stratford-on-Avon 145
Stroud 148
Suffolk 942
Suffolk Coastal 166
Sunderland 229
Surrey 1,264
Surrey Heath 99
Sutton 219
Swale 167
Swindon 315
Tameside 234
Tamworth 68
Tandridge 102
Taunton Deane 166
Teignbridge 164
Telford and Wrekin 176
Tendring 208
Test Valley 153
Tewkesbury 115
Thanet 224
Three Rivers 103
Thurrock 210
Tonbridge and Malling 140
Torbay 191
Torridge 104
Tower Hamlets 200
Trafford 254
Tunbridge Wells 139
Uttlesford 109
Vale of White Horse 133
Wakefield 382
Walsall 248
Waltham Forest 220
Wandsworth 270
Warrington 245
Warwick 145
Warwickshire 633
Watford 78
Waveney 180
Waverley 115
Wealden 178
Wellingborough 92
Welwyn Hatfield 111
West Berkshire 144
West Devon 63
West Dorset 164
West Lancashire 94
West Lindsey 117
West Oxfordshire 102
West Somerset 66
West Sussex 994
Weymouth and Portland 100
Wigan 357
Wiltshire 551
Winchester 115
Windsor and Maidenhead 127
Wirral 381
Woking 112
Wokingham 159
Wolverhampton 229
Worcester 107
Worcestershire 677
Worthing 128
Wychavon 140
Wycombe 195
Wyre 142
Wyre Forest 120
York 195
England 58,853

3.2 Sales volumes by London borough

Sales volumes by London borough: October 2016

London borough Sales volume
Barking and Dagenham 141
Barnet 250
Bexley 261
Brent 122
Bromley 352
Camden 113
City of London 9
City of Westminster 114
Croydon 313
Ealing 167
Enfield 204
Greenwich 184
Hackney 137
Hammersmith and Fulham 98
Haringey 133
Harrow 142
Havering 226
Hillingdon 216
Hounslow 146
Islington 118
Kensington And Chelsea 86
Kingston upon Thames 132
Lambeth 219
Lewisham 180
Merton 142
Newham 145
Redbridge 235
Richmond upon Thames 170
Southwark 190
Sutton 219
Tower Hamlets 200
Waltham Forest 220
Wandsworth 270

3.3 Sales volumes for England and London

Sales volumes for England and London over the past five years

Sales volumes for England and London over the past five years

4. Building status

New build and existing resold property for England by region

Region Average new build Average existing New build monthly change Existing monthly change New build annual change Existing annual change
East Midlands £273,196 £170,190 10.8% 0.2% 25.6% 5.6%
East of England £400,426 £273,676 11.8% 1.2% 30.3% 9.9%
London £563,322 £477,549 10.9% 1.1% 23.4% 6.2%
North East £213,547 £122,617 12.5% 1.4% 22.6% 2.5%
North West £233,809 £148,004 11.8% 1.3% 25.1% 5.5%
South East £423,816 £309,834 11.7% 1.0% 27.2% 7.3%
South West £327,978 £237,541 11.6% 0.6% 25.7% 5.8%
West Midlands Region £283,621 £175,870 10.7% -0.2% 26.1% 5.9%
Yorkshire and The Humber £223,755 £150,938 11.8% 1.6% 25.0% 5.3%
England £335,416 £230,285 11.5% 0.9% 26.0% 6.4%

Note: the first estimate for new build is based on a small sample which can cause volatility in this initial estimate.

5. Buyer status

First time buyer and former owner occupier for England by region

Region Average first time buyer price Average former owner occupier price First time buyer monthly change Former owner occupier monthly change First time buyer annual change Former owner occupier annual change
East Midlands £148,615 £199,914 1.2% 0.9% 6.9% 7.2%
East of England £234,752 £316,738 1.9% 1.9% 11.1% 11.4%
London £423,249 £545,667 1.9% 1.8% 7.5% 7.5%
North East £110,337 £146,533 2.3% 2.2% 3.7% 4.4%
North West £128,252 £172,946 1.9% 1.9% 6.3% 6.8%
South East £253,170 £365,549 1.7% 1.6% 8.4% 8.5%
South West £199,968 £273,582 1.4% 1.2% 6.9% 7.1%
West Midlands Region £150,447 £208,859 0.4% 0.5% 6.9% 7.3%
Yorkshire and The Humber £132,560 £174,722 2.2% 2.2% 6.1% 6.8%
England £198,325 £268,323 1.7% 1.6% 7.4% 7.8%

6. Funding status

Cash and mortgage indicator for England by region

Region Average cash price Average mortgage price Cash monthly change Mortgage monthly change Cash annual change Mortgage annual change
East Midlands £170,455 £179,959 0.5% 1.3% 6.4% 7.4%
East of England £266,278 £288,985 1.8% 2.0% 11.1% 11.4%
London £512,775 £474,924 2.1% 1.8% 7.8% 7.4%
North East £117,477 £134,984 1.8% 2.6% 3.1% 4.6%
North West £140,757 £158,419 1.6% 2.0% 6.0% 6.9%
South East £300,756 £323,738 1.4% 1.8% 8.5% 8.5%
South West £239,888 £244,764 0.7% 1.6% 6.4% 7.5%
West Midlands Region £174,316 £184,593 0.1% 0.6% 6.6% 7.3%
Yorkshire and The Humber £149,141 £158,002 2.0% 2.4% 6.1% 6.7%
England £221,888 £243,757 1.3% 1.7% 7.3% 7.9%

7. Repossession volumes

Due to a period of 2 to 8 weeks between completion and registration of sales, repossession volume figures for the most recent two months are not yet complete, so they are not included in the report.

Repossession volumes by government office region: October 2016

Region Sales volume
East Midlands 67
East of England 11
London 51
North East 91
North West 122
South East 75
South West 48
Yorkshire and The Humber 85
West Midlands Region 67
England 617
repossessions

8. About the UK House Price Index

The UK House Price Index (UK HPI) is calculated by the Office for National Statistics and Land & Property Services Northern Ireland. Find out about the methodology used to create the UK HPI.

Data for the UK House Price Index is provided by Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, The Land & Property Services/Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency and the Valuation Office Agency.

Find out more about the UK House Price Index.

9. Access the data

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10. Contact

Eileen Morrison, Data Services Team Leader, HM Land Registry

Email eileen.morrison@landregistry.gov.uk

Telephone 0300 006 5288