Official Statistics

UK House Price Index England: July 2017

Published 12 September 2017

Applies to England

1. Headline statistics for July 2017

the average price of a property in England was

£243,220

the annual price change of a property in England was

5.4%

the monthly price change of a property in England was

1.0%

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

119.9

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

Average house prices in England have increased by 5.4% in the year to July 2017 (down from 5.5% in the year to June 2017).

In London, average house prices increased by 2.8% in the year to July 2017 (down from 4.8% in the year to June 2017).

Annual price change by local authority for England

Low numbers of sales transactions in some local authorities can lead to volatility in the series. While efforts are made to account for this volatility, the change in price in these local levels can be influenced by the type and number of properties sold in any given period.

Local authorities July 2017 July 2016 Difference
Adur £310,221 £295,273 5.1%
Allerdale £140,851 £136,424 3.2%
Amber Valley £160,994 £154,801 4.0%
Arun £280,662 £261,127 7.5%
Ashfield £128,377 £126,549 1.4%
Ashford £289,221 £264,889 9.2%
Aylesbury Vale £333,781 £313,561 6.4%
Babergh £278,166 £252,175 10.3%
Barking and Dagenham £289,759 £274,243 5.7%
Barnet £545,454 £535,272 1.9%
Barnsley £117,570 £110,583 6.3%
Barrow-in-Furness £116,765 £114,371 2.1%
Basildon £305,589 £282,927 8.0%
Basingstoke and Deane £302,690 £293,097 3.3%
Bassetlaw £144,633 £142,454 1.5%
Bath and North East Somerset £336,440 £315,634 6.6%
Bedford £284,421 £260,879 9.0%
Bexley £344,830 £325,381 6.0%
Birmingham £175,399 £162,995 7.6%
Blaby £211,478 £195,842 8.0%
Blackburn with Darwen £116,310 £102,075 13.9%
Blackpool £103,985 £101,164 2.8%
Bolsover £121,723 £114,439 6.4%
Bolton £123,973 £122,667 1.1%
Boston £146,981 £142,697 3.0%
Bournemouth £238,517 £230,610 3.4%
Bracknell Forest £355,918 £350,052 1.7%
Bradford £133,727 £131,640 1.6%
Braintree £280,338 £259,624 8.0%
Breckland £216,688 £208,156 4.1%
Brent £488,705 £494,641 -1.2%
Brentwood £419,938 £404,889 3.7%
Brighton and Hove £362,405 £345,301 5.0%
Broadland £257,072 £238,124 8.0%
Bromley £449,913 £439,331 2.4%
Bromsgrove £277,539 £257,413 7.8%
Broxbourne £358,696 £335,463 6.9%
Broxtowe £172,434 £165,066 4.5%
Buckinghamshire £410,227 £388,984 5.5%
Burnley £83,508 £75,743 10.3%
Bury £169,750 £150,148 13.1%
Calderdale £142,057 £134,283 5.8%
Cambridge £451,634 £424,048 6.5%
Cambridgeshire £290,503 £270,426 7.4%
Camden £848,580 £753,956 12.6%
Cannock Chase £159,329 £149,898 6.3%
Canterbury £287,339 £267,987 7.2%
Carlisle £131,912 £133,031 -0.8%
Castle Point £298,472 £273,868 9.0%
Central Bedfordshire £308,157 £284,294 8.4%
Charnwood £206,648 £195,002 6.0%
Chelmsford £333,827 £308,102 8.3%
Cheltenham £271,540 £246,724 10.1%
Cherwell £296,102 £291,107 1.7%
Cheshire East £214,444 £212,068 1.1%
Cheshire West and Chester £197,530 £192,986 2.4%
Chesterfield £146,947 £143,763 2.2%
Chichester £377,309 £361,068 4.5%
Chiltern £551,785 £506,156 9.0%
Chorley £169,851 £165,483 2.6%
Christchurch £335,504 £320,845 4.6%
City of Bristol £272,685 £258,282 5.6%
City of Derby £153,207 £148,725 3.0%
City of Kingston upon Hull £107,157 £102,386 4.7%
City of London £743,954 £911,827 -18.4%
City of Nottingham £136,559 £124,201 10.0%
City of Peterborough £182,971 £169,120 8.2%
City of Plymouth £170,940 £167,214 2.2%
City of Westminster £999,437 £1,025,448 -2.5%
Colchester £263,849 £238,764 10.5%
Copeland £127,282 £115,204 10.5%
Corby £172,131 £157,149 9.5%
Cornwall £218,737 £207,515 5.4%
Cotswold £384,745 £331,061 16.2%
County Durham £106,817 £100,570 6.2%
Coventry £179,011 £163,888 9.2%
Craven £198,740 £204,187 -2.7%
Crawley £284,657 £264,751 7.5%
Croydon £381,954 £363,898 5.0%
Cumbria £152,819 £147,901 3.3%
Dacorum £405,653 £390,478 3.9%
Darlington £132,933 £130,366 2.0%
Dartford £308,441 £282,814 9.1%
Daventry £268,225 £244,726 9.6%
Derbyshire £170,857 £160,441 6.5%
Derbyshire Dales £254,477 £236,811 7.5%
Devon £249,247 £233,752 6.6%
Doncaster £124,630 £122,582 1.7%
Dorset £288,479 £271,754 6.2%
Dover £237,534 £211,584 12.3%
Dudley £162,279 £155,366 4.4%
Ealing £493,810 £478,453 3.2%
East Cambridgeshire £283,858 £260,931 8.8%
East Devon £274,108 £256,125 7.0%
East Dorset £347,450 £322,425 7.8%
East Hampshire £369,911 £348,902 6.0%
East Hertfordshire £404,194 £373,846 8.1%
East Lindsey £170,037 £153,562 10.7%
East Northamptonshire £227,895 £203,189 12.2%
East Riding of Yorkshire £175,858 £163,313 7.7%
East Staffordshire £180,993 £168,310 7.5%
East Sussex £272,423 £255,201 6.7%
Eastbourne £233,153 £222,544 4.8%
Eastleigh £273,718 £258,981 5.7%
Eden £200,915 £185,472 8.3%
Elmbridge £590,525 £609,188 -3.1%
Enfield £398,189 £387,870 2.7%
Epping Forest £476,166 £437,584 8.8%
Epsom and Ewell £468,904 £455,110 3.0%
Erewash £158,436 £143,994 10.0%
Essex £310,426 £284,545 9.1%
Exeter £249,193 £231,629 7.6%
Fareham £290,873 £269,925 7.8%
Fenland £182,431 £166,224 9.8%
Forest Heath £218,720 £200,905 8.9%
Forest of Dean £218,029 £205,709 6.0%
Fylde £192,877 £183,201 5.3%
Gateshead £130,159 £128,976 0.9%
Gedling £173,031 £162,558 6.4%
Gloucester £193,951 £182,246 6.4%
Gloucestershire £260,556 £237,837 9.6%
Gosport £200,602 £187,989 6.7%
Gravesham £276,832 £263,467 5.1%
Great Yarmouth £161,935 £149,032 8.7%
Greenwich £387,285 £379,564 2.0%
Guildford £454,470 £430,698 5.5%
Hackney £563,338 £515,654 9.2%
Halton £130,786 £134,070 -2.4%
Hambleton £235,249 £227,303 3.5%
Hammersmith and Fulham £759,934 £759,729 0.0%
Hampshire £312,002 £292,395 6.7%
Harborough £261,050 £246,651 5.8%
Haringey £566,206 £541,366 4.6%
Harlow £280,547 £254,588 10.2%
Harrogate £274,392 £275,427 -0.4%
Harrow £465,107 £454,260 2.4%
Hart £403,155 £392,331 2.8%
Hartlepool £106,974 £107,194 -0.2%
Hastings £206,057 £182,179 13.1%
Havant £265,570 £243,191 9.2%
Havering £369,558 £347,875 6.2%
Herefordshire £221,114 £216,499 2.1%
Hertfordshire £404,831 £389,383 4.0%
Hertsmere £474,319 £464,255 2.2%
High Peak £185,442 £177,173 4.7%
Hillingdon £423,181 £407,913 3.7%
Hinckley and Bosworth £212,285 £185,037 14.7%
Horsham £383,311 £358,701 6.9%
Hounslow £395,680 £395,611 0.0%
Huntingdonshire £252,255 £235,675 7.0%
Hyndburn £97,343 £93,619 4.0%
Ipswich £190,233 £176,959 7.5%
Isle of Wight £205,059 £197,479 3.8%
Islington £674,896 £648,907 4.0%
Kensington and Chelsea £1,392,424 £1,229,599 13.2%
Kent £283,818 £266,413 6.5%
Kettering £192,313 £174,214 10.4%
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk £204,776 £191,011 7.2%
Kingston upon Thames £504,966 £497,134 1.6%
Kirklees £142,562 £139,067 2.5%
Knowsley £124,737 £117,766 5.9%
Lambeth £533,312 £522,676 2.0%
Lancashire £140,230 £137,093 2.3%
Lancaster £145,916 £147,274 -0.9%
Leeds £175,703 £168,295 4.4%
Leicester £158,288 £150,041 5.5%
Leicestershire £214,424 £197,810 8.4%
Lewes £317,633 £303,929 4.5%
Lewisham £416,848 £410,646 1.5%
Lichfield £236,482 £230,831 2.4%
Lincoln £143,092 £138,291 3.5%
Lincolnshire £176,138 £164,046 7.4%
Liverpool £127,474 £120,614 5.7%
Luton £243,694 £220,262 10.6%
Maidstone £289,027 £270,546 6.8%
Maldon £330,361 £292,793 12.8%
Malvern Hills £262,052 £238,678 9.8%
Manchester £161,802 £151,327 6.9%
Mansfield £129,760 £120,631 7.6%
Medway £240,186 £224,547 7.0%
Melton £216,493 £203,201 6.5%
Mendip £241,144 £232,321 3.8%
Merton £510,735 £511,128 -0.1%
Mid Devon £223,317 £211,719 5.5%
Mid Suffolk £267,358 £240,423 11.2%
Mid Sussex £379,546 £359,431 5.6%
Middlesbrough £114,874 £114,403 0.4%
Milton Keynes £262,570 £253,003 3.8%
Mole Valley £504,008 £473,070 6.5%
New Forest £333,377 £309,823 7.6%
Newark and Sherwood £173,456 £166,626 4.1%
Newcastle upon Tyne £159,431 £157,503 1.2%
Newcastle-under-Lyme £144,610 £140,861 2.7%
Newham £357,788 £355,960 0.5%
Norfolk £218,608 £204,713 6.8%
North Devon £230,929 £219,282 5.3%
North Dorset £253,713 £235,816 7.6%
North East Derbyshire £188,013 £167,159 12.5%
North East Lincolnshire £119,721 £114,534 4.5%
North Hertfordshire £339,088 £326,530 3.8%
North Kesteven £193,827 £184,682 5.0%
North Lincolnshire £136,769 £130,103 5.1%
North Norfolk £242,862 £224,322 8.3%
North Somerset £257,536 £247,535 4.0%
North Tyneside £161,652 £153,971 5.0%
North Warwickshire £203,927 £184,105 10.8%
North West Leicestershire £194,475 £179,959 8.1%
North Yorkshire £213,913 £207,424 3.1%
Northampton £203,904 £189,192 7.8%
Northamptonshire £219,732 £201,171 9.2%
Northumberland £153,516 £150,595 1.9%
Norwich £197,717 £189,139 4.5%
Nottinghamshire £166,101 £158,285 4.9%
Nuneaton and Bedworth £161,322 £152,465 5.8%
Oadby and Wigston £203,944 £189,981 7.3%
Oldham £126,114 £120,463 4.7%
Oxford £416,646 £402,308 3.6%
Oxfordshire £350,949 £347,192 1.1%
Pendle £92,612 £95,872 -3.4%
Poole £310,344 £279,524 11.0%
Portsmouth £202,444 £190,894 6.1%
Preston £125,641 £125,674 0.0%
Purbeck £325,887 £291,030 12.0%
Reading £308,166 £303,390 1.6%
Redbridge £418,525 £394,381 6.1%
Redcar and Cleveland £122,065 £120,654 1.2%
Redditch £194,362 £185,688 4.7%
Reigate and Banstead £408,072 £407,250 0.2%
Ribble Valley £208,791 £211,013 -1.1%
Richmond upon Thames £685,947 £677,067 1.3%
Richmondshire £201,526 £197,717 1.9%
Rochdale £129,531 £123,208 5.1%
Rochford £333,436 £311,119 7.2%
Rossendale £125,476 £122,062 2.8%
Rother £284,167 £266,455 6.6%
Rotherham £132,749 £129,714 2.3%
Rugby £226,274 £207,584 9.0%
Runnymede £418,888 £391,400 7.0%
Rushcliffe £266,460 £242,916 9.7%
Rushmoor £293,756 £281,693 4.3%
Rutland £286,984 £259,461 10.6%
Ryedale £217,304 £211,376 2.8%
Salford £154,415 £142,393 8.4%
Sandwell £134,214 £129,426 3.7%
Scarborough £163,896 £149,698 9.5%
Sedgemoor £218,753 £202,059 8.3%
Sefton £157,315 £153,473 2.5%
Selby £193,342 £183,150 5.6%
Sevenoaks £423,885 £406,529 4.3%
Sheffield £154,674 £150,125 3.0%
Shepway £239,123 £232,824 2.7%
Shropshire £204,115 £196,327 4.0%
Slough £303,181 £295,357 2.6%
Solihull £274,154 £251,482 9.0%
Somerset £224,639 £210,336 6.8%
South Bucks £616,484 £620,952 -0.7%
South Cambridgeshire £374,942 £354,069 5.9%
South Derbyshire £192,897 £182,756 5.5%
South Gloucestershire £268,592 £254,442 5.6%
South Hams £285,159 £281,760 1.2%
South Holland £182,928 £167,737 9.1%
South Kesteven £204,244 £191,198 6.8%
South Lakeland £224,874 £219,126 2.6%
South Norfolk £253,338 £235,049 7.8%
South Northamptonshire £317,991 £299,631 6.1%
South Oxfordshire £388,428 £391,322 -0.7%
South Ribble £166,389 £160,643 3.6%
South Somerset £217,274 £205,697 5.6%
South Staffordshire £219,013 £207,758 5.4%
South Tyneside £129,307 £124,066 4.2%
Southampton £207,577 £198,646 4.5%
Southend-on-Sea £271,612 £253,028 7.3%
Southwark £507,766 £505,216 0.5%
Spelthorne £368,870 £361,782 2.0%
St Albans £526,809 £509,971 3.3%
St Edmundsbury £280,971 £260,389 7.9%
St Helens £125,535 £121,042 3.7%
Stafford £196,134 £192,242 2.0%
Staffordshire £183,560 £175,119 4.8%
Staffordshire Moorlands £174,008 £162,074 7.4%
Stevenage £277,156 £267,866 3.5%
Stockport £212,587 £199,730 6.4%
Stockton-on-Tees £131,438 £133,697 -1.7%
Stoke-on-Trent £103,483 £103,124 0.3%
Stratford-on-Avon £312,117 £285,304 9.4%
Stroud £280,581 £253,065 10.9%
Suffolk £238,279 £219,215 8.7%
Suffolk Coastal £272,359 £254,896 6.9%
Sunderland £115,661 £113,412 2.0%
Surrey £447,664 £435,932 2.7%
Surrey Heath £396,481 £388,865 2.0%
Sutton £381,952 £373,699 2.2%
Swale £232,589 £222,616 4.5%
Swindon £212,063 £201,250 5.4%
Tameside £139,547 £128,738 8.4%
Tamworth £175,718 £163,421 7.5%
Tandridge £456,294 £432,353 5.5%
Taunton Deane £227,557 £210,122 8.3%
Teignbridge £246,168 £219,412 12.2%
Telford and Wrekin £156,411 £150,547 3.9%
Tendring £215,636 £191,376 12.7%
Test Valley £327,445 £292,512 11.9%
Tewkesbury £273,025 £249,564 9.4%
Thanet £219,516 £204,625 7.3%
Three Rivers £526,242 £515,825 2.0%
Thurrock £267,582 £249,349 7.3%
Tonbridge and Malling £347,677 £334,179 4.0%
Torbay £190,339 £186,558 2.0%
Torridge £221,593 £209,518 5.8%
Tower Hamlets £468,412 £443,471 5.6%
Trafford £265,557 £250,207 6.1%
Tunbridge Wells £383,258 £366,074 4.7%
Uttlesford £405,527 £377,812 7.3%
Vale of White Horse £347,802 £352,704 -1.4%
Wakefield £141,879 £136,072 4.3%
Walsall £153,634 £148,228 3.6%
Waltham Forest £430,964 £413,813 4.1%
Wandsworth £635,067 £614,052 3.4%
Warrington £179,361 £175,249 2.3%
Warwick £303,694 £283,892 7.0%
Warwickshire £242,376 £224,537 7.9%
Watford £370,229 £359,972 2.8%
Waveney £191,069 £174,218 9.7%
Waverley £456,606 £444,771 2.7%
Wealden £330,151 £311,618 5.9%
Wellingborough £205,034 £184,690 11.0%
Welwyn Hatfield £390,343 £386,550 1.0%
West Berkshire £347,017 £336,135 3.2%
West Devon £242,000 £232,043 4.3%
West Dorset £282,201 £264,195 6.8%
West Lancashire £180,611 £177,050 2.0%
West Lindsey £170,265 £151,689 12.2%
West Oxfordshire £329,661 £320,218 2.9%
West Somerset £221,335 £199,515 10.9%
West Sussex £322,747 £304,674 5.9%
Weymouth and Portland £210,868 £212,094 -0.6%
Wigan £129,236 £123,581 4.6%
Wiltshire £272,910 £254,726 7.1%
Winchester £415,091 £384,035 8.1%
Windsor and Maidenhead £479,214 £485,027 -1.2%
Wirral £155,122 £147,113 5.4%
Woking £416,651 £403,521 3.3%
Wokingham £411,964 £411,876 0.0%
Wolverhampton £138,710 £137,069 1.2%
Worcester £200,402 £190,780 5.0%
Worcestershire £226,597 £213,963 5.9%
Worthing £266,791 £257,801 3.5%
Wychavon £260,309 £248,481 4.8%
Wycombe £400,525 £382,784 4.6%
Wyre £147,434 £142,718 3.3%
Wyre Forest £177,840 £170,010 4.6%
York £249,556 £233,831 6.7%
England £243,220 £230,868 5.4%

Average price by local authority for England

2.2 Annual price change by London borough

Annual price change by London borough

London borough July 2017 July 2016 Difference
Barking and Dagenham £289,759 £274,243 5.7%
Barnet £545,454 £535,272 1.9%
Bexley £344,830 £325,381 6.0%
Brent £488,705 £494,641 -1.2%
Bromley £449,913 £439,331 2.4%
Camden £848,580 £753,956 12.6%
City of London £743,954 £911,827 -18.4%
City of Westminster £999,437 £1,025,448 -2.5%
Croydon £381,954 £363,898 5.0%
Ealing £493,810 £478,453 3.2%
Enfield £398,189 £387,870 2.7%
Greenwich £387,285 £379,564 2.0%
Hackney £563,338 £515,654 9.2%
Hammersmith and Fulham £759,934 £759,729 0.0%
Haringey £566,206 £541,366 4.6%
Harrow £465,107 £454,260 2.4%
Havering £369,558 £347,875 6.2%
Hillingdon £423,181 £407,913 3.7%
Hounslow £395,680 £395,611 0.0%
Islington £674,896 £648,907 4.0%
Kensington and Chelsea £1,392,424 £1,229,599 13.2%
Kingston upon Thames £504,966 £497,134 1.6%
Lambeth £533,312 £522,676 2.0%
Lewisham £416,848 £410,646 1.5%
Merton £510,735 £511,128 -0.1%
Newham £357,788 £355,960 0.5%
Redbridge £418,525 £394,381 6.1%
Richmond upon Thames £685,947 £677,067 1.3%
Southwark £507,766 £505,216 0.5%
Sutton £381,952 £373,699 2.2%
Tower Hamlets £468,412 £443,471 5.6%
Waltham Forest £430,964 £413,813 4.1%
Wandsworth £635,067 £614,052 3.4%

Average price by London borough

2.3 Average price change by property type

Average price change by property type for England

Property type July 2017 July 2016 Difference
Detached £365,212 £344,250 6.1%
Semi-detached £224,004 £213,331 5.0%
Terraced £196,486 £187,859 4.6%
Flat or maisonette £231,175 £217,820 6.1%
All £243,220 £230,868 5.4%

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

Local authorities May 2017 May 2016 Difference
Adur 65 73 -11.0%
Allerdale 120 88 36.4%
Amber Valley 150 180 -16.7%
Arun 224 251 -10.8%
Ashfield 165 141 17.0%
Ashford 129 155 -16.8%
Aylesbury Vale 202 252 -19.8%
Babergh 99 90 10.0%
Barking and Dagenham 151 144 4.9%
Barnet 292 396 -26.3%
Barnsley 243 301 -19.3%
Barrow-in-Furness 117 98 19.4%
Basildon 230 230 0.0%
Basingstoke and Deane 197 199 -1.0%
Bassetlaw 145 125 16.0%
Bath and North East Somerset 207 204 1.5%
Bedford 209 234 -10.7%
Bexley 203 233 -12.9%
Birmingham 849 952 -10.8%
Blaby 100 157 -36.3%
Blackburn with Darwen 129 104 24.0%
Blackpool 166 160 3.8%
Bolsover 117 108 8.3%
Bolton 296 293 1.0%
Boston 76 68 11.8%
Bournemouth 251 241 4.1%
Bracknell Forest 137 137 0.0%
Bradford 522 482 8.3%
Braintree 164 220 -25.5%
Breckland 164 204 -19.6%
Brent 137 155 -11.6%
Brentwood 84 109 -22.9%
Brighton and Hove 305 289 5.5%
Broadland 160 191 -16.2%
Bromley 334 402 -16.9%
Bromsgrove 111 123 -9.8%
Broxbourne 94 79 19.0%
Broxtowe 160 151 6.0%
Buckinghamshire 551 574 -4.0%
Burnley 116 106 9.4%
Bury 206 208 -1.0%
Calderdale 227 195 16.4%
Cambridge 100 94 6.4%
Cambridgeshire 696 695 0.1%
Camden 135 114 18.4%
Cannock Chase 111 144 -22.9%
Canterbury 143 157 -8.9%
Carlisle 141 154 -8.4%
Castle Point 94 97 -3.1%
Central Bedfordshire 346 423 -18.2%
Charnwood 204 179 14.0%
Chelmsford 221 225 -1.8%
Cheltenham 134 169 -20.7%
Cherwell 163 204 -20.1%
Cheshire East 493 466 5.8%
Cheshire West and Chester 437 462 -5.4%
Chesterfield 111 99 12.1%
Chichester 110 124 -11.3%
Chiltern 92 59 55.9%
Chorley 123 156 -21.2%
Christchurch 81 60 35.0%
City of Bristol 490 495 -1.0%
City of Derby 241 287 -16.0%
City of Kingston upon Hull 239 279 -14.3%
City of London 4 9 -55.6%
City of Nottingham 275 257 7.0%
City of Peterborough 226 223 1.3%
City of Plymouth 297 338 -12.1%
City of Westminster 158 153 3.3%
Colchester 239 261 -8.4%
Copeland 62 53 17.0%
Corby 73 102 -28.4%
Cornwall 723 717 0.8%
Cotswold 109 136 -19.9%
County Durham 551 604 -8.8%
Coventry 334 316 5.7%
Craven 84 73 15.1%
Crawley 91 114 -20.2%
Croydon 328 389 -15.7%
Cumbria 661 592 11.7%
Dacorum 134 161 -16.8%
Darlington 126 141 -10.6%
Dartford 116 193 -39.9%
Daventry 95 132 -28.0%
Derbyshire 960 981 -2.1%
Derbyshire Dales 88 86 2.3%
Devon 1,083 1,081 0.2%
Doncaster 302 321 -5.9%
Dorset 576 530 8.7%
Dover 132 165 -20.0%
Dudley 293 316 -7.3%
Ealing 163 200 -18.5%
East Cambridgeshire 88 113 -22.1%
East Devon 222 211 5.2%
East Dorset 126 103 22.3%
East Hampshire 116 173 -32.9%
East Hertfordshire 171 214 -20.1%
East Lindsey 198 208 -4.8%
East Northamptonshire 148 118 25.4%
East Riding of Yorkshire 485 485 0.0%
East Staffordshire 122 148 -17.6%
East Sussex 704 764 -7.9%
Eastbourne 139 149 -6.7%
Eastleigh 147 173 -15.0%
Eden 82 63 30.2%
Elmbridge 162 147 10.2%
Enfield 220 209 5.3%
Epping Forest 136 150 -9.3%
Epsom and Ewell 80 82 -2.4%
Erewash 159 140 13.6%
Essex 1,775 1,857 -4.4%
Exeter 150 157 -4.5%
Fareham 179 111 61.3%
Fenland 155 121 28.1%
Forest Heath 104 89 16.9%
Forest of Dean 102 99 3.0%
Fylde 110 120 -8.3%
Gateshead 184 177 4.0%
Gedling 145 152 -4.6%
Gloucester 179 132 35.6%
Gloucestershire 770 823 -6.4%
Gosport 113 93 21.5%
Gravesham 85 81 4.9%
Great Yarmouth 151 128 18.0%
Greenwich 191 198 -3.5%
Guildford 155 149 4.0%
Hackney 124 175 -29.1%
Halton 127 131 -3.1%
Hambleton 96 108 -11.1%
Hammersmith and Fulham 106 145 -26.9%
Hampshire 1,615 1,668 -3.2%
Harborough 115 135 -14.8%
Haringey 129 159 -18.9%
Harlow 82 74 10.8%
Harrogate 168 168 0.0%
Harrow 128 136 -5.9%
Hart 116 125 -7.2%
Hartlepool 108 88 22.7%
Hastings 137 127 7.9%
Havant 144 164 -12.2%
Havering 233 263 -11.4%
Herefordshire 178 191 -6.8%
Hertfordshire 1,168 1,259 -7.2%
Hertsmere 108 113 -4.4%
High Peak 93 102 -8.8%
Hillingdon 231 210 10.0%
Hinckley and Bosworth 148 183 -19.1%
Horsham 176 210 -16.2%
Hounslow 145 167 -13.2%
Huntingdonshire 181 217 -16.6%
Hyndburn 93 102 -8.8%
Ipswich 166 148 12.2%
Isle of Wight 181 213 -15.0%
Islington 96 141 -31.9%
Kensington and Chelsea 112 90 24.4%
Kent 1,732 1,936 -10.5%
Kettering 133 152 -12.5%
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk 170 203 -16.3%
Kingston upon Thames 161 129 24.8%
Kirklees 436 431 1.2%
Knowsley 133 152 -12.5%
Lambeth 238 228 4.4%
Lancashire 1,394 1,410 -1.1%
Lancaster 179 156 14.7%
Leeds 896 926 -3.2%
Leicester 218 259 -15.8%
Leicestershire 793 895 -11.4%
Lewes 101 148 -31.8%
Lewisham 211 263 -19.8%
Lichfield 89 140 -36.4%
Lincoln 118 128 -7.8%
Lincolnshire 1,001 993 0.8%
Liverpool 448 429 4.4%
Luton 207 174 19.0%
Maidstone 194 257 -24.5%
Maldon 94 82 14.6%
Malvern Hills 73 84 -13.1%
Manchester 426 431 -1.2%
Mansfield 121 155 -21.9%
Medway 288 312 -7.7%
Melton 51 51 0.0%
Mendip 136 180 -24.4%
Merton 183 153 19.6%
Mid Devon 107 86 24.4%
Mid Suffolk 128 135 -5.2%
Mid Sussex 161 210 -23.3%
Middlesbrough 131 130 0.8%
Milton Keynes 278 318 -12.6%
Mole Valley 89 90 -1.1%
New Forest 204 207 -1.4%
Newark and Sherwood 129 160 -19.4%
Newcastle upon Tyne 244 261 -6.5%
Newcastle-under-Lyme 161 156 3.2%
Newham 146 141 3.5%
Norfolk 1,078 1,215 -11.3%
North Devon 119 116 2.6%
North Dorset 101 99 2.0%
North East Derbyshire 111 92 20.7%
North East Lincolnshire 188 151 24.5%
North Hertfordshire 127 156 -18.6%
North Kesteven 162 167 -3.0%
North Lincolnshire 210 205 2.4%
North Norfolk 119 137 -13.1%
North Somerset 260 307 -15.3%
North Tyneside 251 250 0.4%
North Warwickshire 73 79 -7.6%
North West Leicestershire 108 121 -10.7%
North Yorkshire 821 781 5.1%
Northampton 292 310 -5.8%
Northamptonshire 955 1,060 -9.9%
Northumberland 349 369 -5.4%
Norwich 156 124 25.8%
Nottinghamshire 1,031 1,030 0.1%
Nuneaton and Bedworth 145 191 -24.1%
Oadby and Wigston 54 69 -21.7%
Oldham 228 182 25.3%
Oxford 76 67 13.4%
Oxfordshire 648 686 -5.5%
Pendle 100 92 8.7%
Poole 191 218 -12.4%
Portsmouth 263 250 5.2%
Preston 115 113 1.8%
Purbeck 52 49 6.1%
Reading 146 155 -5.8%
Redbridge 165 191 -13.6%
Redcar and Cleveland 134 159 -15.7%
Redditch 106 94 12.8%
Reigate and Banstead 155 166 -6.6%
Ribble Valley 69 61 13.1%
Richmond upon Thames 205 182 12.6%
Richmondshire 57 57 0.0%
Rochdale 203 190 6.8%
Rochford 82 97 -15.5%
Rossendale 89 97 -8.2%
Rother 162 152 6.6%
Rotherham 271 261 3.8%
Rugby 126 131 -3.8%
Runnymede 101 89 13.5%
Rushcliffe 150 146 2.7%
Rushmoor 123 135 -8.9%
Rutland 55 62 -11.3%
Ryedale 71 64 10.9%
Salford 268 306 -12.4%
Sandwell 253 238 6.3%
Scarborough 168 160 5.0%
Sedgemoor 149 164 -9.1%
Sefton 311 296 5.1%
Selby 121 151 -19.9%
Sevenoaks 111 105 5.7%
Sheffield 503 474 6.1%
Shepway 165 140 17.9%
Shropshire 371 373 -0.5%
Slough 88 98 -10.2%
Solihull 249 234 6.4%
Somerset 704 779 -9.6%
South Bucks 50 57 -12.3%
South Cambridgeshire 170 150 13.3%
South Derbyshire 125 174 -28.2%
South Gloucestershire 321 305 5.2%
South Hams 130 142 -8.5%
South Holland 109 132 -17.4%
South Kesteven 200 176 13.6%
South Lakeland 137 136 0.7%
South Norfolk 141 228 -38.2%
South Northamptonshire 115 133 -13.5%
South Oxfordshire 138 168 -17.9%
South Ribble 143 163 -12.3%
South Somerset 204 229 -10.9%
South Staffordshire 123 102 20.6%
South Tyneside 121 119 1.7%
Southampton 236 256 -7.8%
Southend-on-Sea 251 215 16.7%
Southwark 207 215 -3.7%
Spelthorne 110 108 1.9%
St Albans 163 176 -7.4%
St Edmundsbury 105 126 -16.7%
St Helens 208 158 31.6%
Stafford 152 191 -20.4%
Staffordshire 946 1,069 -11.5%
Staffordshire Moorlands 112 127 -11.8%
Stevenage 99 97 2.1%
Stockport 365 356 2.5%
Stockton-on-Tees 223 219 1.8%
Stoke-on-Trent 281 284 -1.1%
Stratford-on-Avon 161 179 -10.1%
Stroud 126 143 -11.9%
Suffolk 925 894 3.5%
Suffolk Coastal 168 163 3.1%
Sunderland 225 239 -5.9%
Surrey 1,299 1,334 -2.6%
Surrey Heath 93 91 2.2%
Sutton 182 181 0.6%
Swale 142 196 -27.6%
Swindon 313 310 1.0%
Tameside 261 221 18.1%
Tamworth 75 61 23.0%
Tandridge 91 117 -22.2%
Taunton Deane 138 169 -18.3%
Teignbridge 196 196 0.0%
Telford and Wrekin 192 191 0.5%
Tendring 262 200 31.0%
Test Valley 165 170 -2.9%
Tewkesbury 115 144 -20.1%
Thanet 192 198 -3.0%
Three Rivers 68 70 -2.9%
Thurrock 204 228 -10.5%
Tonbridge and Malling 156 170 -8.2%
Torbay 210 180 16.7%
Torridge 76 100 -24.0%
Tower Hamlets 181 295 -38.6%
Trafford 266 237 12.2%
Tunbridge Wells 140 119 17.6%
Uttlesford 74 112 -33.9%
Vale of White Horse 138 131 5.3%
Wakefield 408 431 -5.3%
Walsall 254 250 1.6%
Waltham Forest 175 187 -6.4%
Wandsworth 355 364 -2.5%
Warrington 226 244 -7.4%
Warwick 158 141 12.1%
Warwickshire 675 721 -6.4%
Watford 88 88 0.0%
Waveney 150 143 4.9%
Waverley 125 174 -28.2%
Wealden 162 188 -13.8%
Wellingborough 93 113 -17.7%
Welwyn Hatfield 101 105 -3.8%
West Berkshire 174 201 -13.4%
West Devon 75 73 2.7%
West Dorset 129 139 -7.2%
West Lancashire 111 107 3.7%
West Lindsey 135 114 18.4%
West Oxfordshire 121 116 4.3%
West Somerset 63 37 70.3%
West Sussex 985 1,123 -12.3%
Weymouth and Portland 83 80 3.8%
Wigan 359 335 7.2%
Wiltshire 550 614 -10.4%
Winchester 97 118 -17.8%
Windsor and Maidenhead 158 118 33.9%
Wirral 375 346 8.4%
Woking 127 121 5.0%
Wokingham 171 201 -14.9%
Wolverhampton 181 231 -21.6%
Worcester 116 110 5.5%
Worcestershire 686 661 3.8%
Worthing 150 141 6.4%
Wychavon 161 158 1.9%
Wycombe 206 206 0.0%
Wyre 145 137 5.8%
Wyre Forest 115 92 25.0%
York 218 258 -15.5%
England 58,209 60,179 -3.3%

3.2 Sales volumes by London borough

Sales volumes by London borough

London borough May 2017 May 2016 Difference
Barking and Dagenham 151 144 4.9%
Barnet 292 396 -26.3%
Bexley 203 233 -12.9%
Brent 137 155 -11.6%
Bromley 334 402 -16.9%
Camden 135 114 18.4%
City of London 4 9 -55.6%
City of Westminster 158 153 3.3%
Croydon 328 389 -15.7%
Ealing 163 200 -18.5%
Enfield 220 209 5.3%
Greenwich 191 198 -3.5%
Hackney 124 175 -29.1%
Hammersmith and Fulham 106 145 -26.9%
Haringey 129 159 -18.9%
Harrow 128 136 -5.9%
Havering 233 263 -11.4%
Hillingdon 231 210 10.0%
Hounslow 145 167 -13.2%
Islington 96 141 -31.9%
Kensington And Chelsea 112 90 24.4%
Kingston upon Thames 161 129 24.8%
Lambeth 238 228 4.4%
Lewisham 211 263 -19.8%
Merton 183 153 19.6%
Newham 146 141 3.5%
Redbridge 165 191 -13.6%
Richmond upon Thames 205 182 12.6%
Southwark 207 215 -3.7%
Sutton 182 181 0.6%
Tower Hamlets 181 295 -38.6%
Waltham Forest 175 187 -6.4%
Wandsworth 355 364 -2.5%

3.3 Sales volumes for England

Sales volumes for England over the past five years

Date Sales volumes for England
May 2013 65,354
May 2014 79,180
May 2015 74,897
May 2016 60,179
May 2017 58,209

3.4 Sales volumes for London

Sales volumes for London over the past five years

Date Sales volumes for London
May 2013 9,378
May 2014 10,670
May 2015 9,466
May 2016 6,617
May 2017 6,169

4. Building status

New build and existing resold property for England by region

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

Region Average new build Average existing New build monthly change Existing monthly change New build annual change Existing annual change
London £543,706 £484,536 -3.0% 0.6% 14.4% 1.9%
North East £209,044 £127,585 1.5% 3.4% 17.0% 3.1%
East Midlands £268,990 £178,873 -1.9% 1.4% 19.8% 6.6%
East of England £390,679 £283,459 -2.3% 1.0% 19.3% 6.3%
North West £228,388 £153,796 -1.8% 1.6% 17.1% 4.1%
South East £405,919 £316,082 -3.6% -0.2% 15.5% 3.2%
South West £321,427 £248,109 -1.3% 1.8% 19.6% 6.3%
West Midlands £278,667 £184,233 -0.5% 2.0% 20.0% 6.1%
Yorkshire and The Humber £216,903 £154,819 1.3% 1.3% 17.4% 3.8%
England £326,381 £238,125 -1.9% 1.2% 17.6% 4.6%

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
London £428,546 £549,874 0.5% 0.1% 2.9% 2.6%
North East £114,552 £150,929 3.4% 3.1% 4.1% 4.1%
East Midlands £155,725 £208,242 1.4% 0.9% 7.4% 7.5%
East of England £242,972 £325,042 0.9% 0.7% 7.1% 7.1%
North West £133,247 £178,089 1.7% 1.2% 4.7% 4.6%
South East £258,781 £369,348 0.0% -0.7% 4.2% 3.5%
South West £208,725 £283,198 1.9% 1.5% 6.9% 7.0%
West Midlands £157,998 £216,465 2.1% 1.6% 7.0% 6.7%
Yorkshire and The Humber £136,055 £177,559 1.4% 0.9% 4.6% 4.5%
England £204,963 £274,984 1.2% 0.8% 5.4% 5.3%

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
London £517,557 £479,926 0.4% 0.3% 3.7% 2.5%
North East £122,578 £138,894 3.6% 3.0% 4.0% 4.2%
East Midlands £179,063 £187,487 1.5% 1.0% 7.7% 7.4%
East of England £275,372 £297,116 1.2% 0.6% 7.8% 6.8%
North West £146,182 £163,434 1.9% 1.2% 4.7% 4.7%
South East £306,878 £327,988 -0.3% -0.5% 4.4% 3.6%
South West £249,096 £254,292 1.3% 1.9% 7.0% 7.0%
West Midlands Region £181,713 £192,500 1.6% 1.9% 6.5% 7.0%
Yorkshire and The Humber £153,093 £160,862 1.5% 1.0% 4.8% 4.4%
England £229,241 £250,265 1.2% 0.9% 5.8% 5.2%

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: May 2017

Region Sales volume
East Midlands 45
East of England 9
London 33
North East 68
North West 129
South East 55
South West 42
Yorkshire and The Humber 93
West Midlands 65
England 539

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10. Contact

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Email eileen.morrison@landregistry.gov.uk

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