National statistics

UK House Price Index England: March 2019

Published 22 May 2019

Applies to England

1. Headline statistics for March 2019

the average price of a property in England was

£243,128

the annual price change of a property in England was

1.1%

the monthly price change of a property in England was

-0.5%

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.

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2. Economic statement

England house prices grew by 1.1% in the year to March 2019, up slightly from 1.0% in the year to February 2019. England house prices were growing slower than the UK annual rate of 1.4% in the year to March 2019. Yorkshire and The Humber was the fastest growing region with annual growth of 3.6%, up from 2.3% in the year to February 2019. The lowest annual growth was in London, where prices fell by 1.9% over the year to March 2019, up from a decrease of 2.7% in February 2019.

On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, average house prices in England fell by 0.5% between February 2019 and March 2019, compared with a fall of 0.6% during the same period a year earlier (February 2018 and March 2018). On a seasonally adjusted basis, average house prices in England increased by 0.1% between February 2019 and March 2019.

The UK Property Transaction Statistics showed that on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, in the 3 months to March 2019 the number of transactions on residential properties with a value of £40,000 or greater in England was 222,050. This is up by 0.1% compared with the 3 months to March 2018.

Across England, all houses showed an increase in average price in March 2019 when compared with the same month in the previous year. Semi-detached houses showed the biggest increase, rising by 2.5% in the year to March 2019 to £229,000. The average price of flats and maisonettes fell by 0.8% in the year to March 2019 to £222,000. Falling prices over the year in England flats and maisonettes was driven by negative growth in London for this property type. London accounts for around 30% of England flats and maisonette transactions.

As with other indicators in the housing market, which typically fluctuate from month to month, it is important not to put too much weight on one month’s set of house price data.

3. Price change

3.1 Annual price change

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

A chart showing the annual price change for England and London over the past 5 years.

Average house prices in England have increased by 1.1% in the year to March 2019 (up from 1.0% in February 2019).

In London, average house prices fell by 1.9% in the year to March 2019, up from a decrease of 2.7% in February 2019.

Annual price change by local authority for England

Low numbers of sales transactions in some local authorities and London boroughs, such as City of London, can lead to volatility in the series. While we make efforts 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. Geographies with low number of sales transactions should be analysed in the context of their longer-term trends rather than focusing on monthly movements.

Local authorities March 2019 March 2018 Difference
Adur £305,281 £315,668 -3.3%
Allerdale £148,771 £149,435 -0.4%
Amber Valley £170,476 £166,146 2.6%
Arun £280,661 £280,656 0.0%
Ashfield £138,084 £136,972 0.8%
Ashford £294,280 £291,208 1.1%
Aylesbury Vale £322,907 £322,805 0.0%
Babergh £289,493 £290,197 -0.2%
Barking and Dagenham £300,517 £291,723 3.0%
Barnet £515,882 £538,120 -4.1%
Barnsley £120,824 £117,444 2.9%
Barrow-in-Furness £121,056 £114,685 5.6%
Basildon £305,554 £303,911 0.5%
Basingstoke and Deane £307,921 £305,997 0.6%
Bassetlaw £149,064 £151,876 -1.9%
Bath and North East Somerset £356,390 £342,518 4.0%
Bedford £295,635 £285,200 3.7%
Bexley £342,993 £339,632 1.0%
Birmingham £186,806 £177,581 5.2%
Blaby £229,321 £222,539 3.0%
Blackburn with Darwen £111,459 £109,849 1.5%
Blackpool £104,071 £106,152 -2.0%
Bolsover £125,672 £126,895 -1.0%
Bolton £133,326 £130,262 2.4%
Boston £154,478 £149,521 3.3%
Bournemouth £256,579 £244,796 4.8%
Bracknell Forest £337,571 £348,834 -3.2%
Bradford £130,790 £130,198 0.5%
Braintree £280,234 £284,028 -1.3%
Breckland £225,921 £225,298 0.3%
Brent £464,522 £482,967 -3.8%
Brentwood £423,038 £424,826 -0.4%
Brighton and Hove £348,955 £357,054 -2.3%
Broadland £257,210 £255,367 0.7%
Bromley £442,388 £441,430 0.2%
Bromsgrove £280,138 £273,137 2.6%
Broxbourne £343,438 £350,788 -2.1%
Broxtowe £183,284 £183,094 0.1%
Buckinghamshire £399,874 £401,696 -0.5%
Burnley £77,461 £76,626 1.1%
Bury £175,141 £162,939 7.5%
Calderdale £142,489 £137,176 3.9%
Cambridge £436,255 £437,835 -0.4%
Cambridgeshire £289,624 £290,417 -0.3%
Camden £774,313 £853,396 -9.3%
Cannock Chase £172,110 £162,385 6.0%
Canterbury £304,744 £296,661 2.7%
Carlisle £134,587 £132,149 1.8%
Castle Point £298,457 £300,391 -0.6%
Central Bedfordshire £309,039 £311,121 -0.7%
Charnwood £215,519 £210,745 2.3%
Chelmsford £334,508 £333,535 0.3%
Cheltenham £274,396 £260,002 5.5%
Cherwell £287,792 £302,499 -4.9%
Cheshire East £228,463 £218,204 4.7%
Cheshire West and Chester £204,936 £198,538 3.2%
Chesterfield £153,949 £146,961 4.8%
Chichester £367,322 £382,970 -4.1%
Chiltern £550,350 £558,583 -1.5%
Chorley £175,024 £168,623 3.8%
Christchurch £339,932 £339,977 0.0%
City of Bristol £274,351 £276,528 -0.8%
City of Derby £156,816 £153,173 2.4%
City of Kingston upon Hull £111,173 £107,197 3.7%
City of London £860,634 £740,799 16.2%
City of Nottingham £143,297 £136,477 5.0%
City of Peterborough £189,904 £187,127 1.5%
City of Plymouth £176,973 £173,528 2.0%
City of Westminster £912,082 £1,060,664 -14.0%
Colchester £264,964 £262,422 1.0%
Copeland £116,849 £123,442 -5.3%
Corby £183,280 £177,499 3.3%
Cornwall £232,618 £227,521 2.2%
Cotswold £359,122 £365,448 -1.7%
County Durham £95,520 £98,219 -2.7%
Coventry £186,396 £182,377 2.2%
Craven £216,863 £202,302 7.2%
Crawley £280,623 £280,125 0.2%
Croydon £359,336 £366,045 -1.8%
Cumbria £153,475 £153,852 -0.2%
Dacorum £394,266 £398,513 -1.1%
Darlington £129,172 £127,212 1.5%
Dartford £297,750 £294,025 1.3%
Daventry £274,490 £276,282 -0.6%
Derbyshire £177,055 £171,037 3.5%
Derbyshire Dales £279,327 £252,722 10.5%
Devon £261,582 £251,995 3.8%
Doncaster £127,589 £122,680 4.0%
Dorset £292,208 £294,618 -0.8%
Dover £249,369 £239,039 4.3%
Dudley £175,694 £167,262 5.0%
Ealing £471,561 £483,878 -2.5%
East Cambridgeshire £274,514 £277,693 -1.1%
East Devon £293,489 £283,476 3.5%
East Dorset £338,978 £351,743 -3.6%
East Hampshire £356,312 £370,753 -3.9%
East Hertfordshire £382,574 £395,314 -3.2%
East Lindsey £183,566 £167,876 9.3%
East Northamptonshire £236,042 £232,700 1.4%
East Riding of Yorkshire £177,348 £173,499 2.2%
East Staffordshire £175,416 £181,105 -3.1%
East Sussex £284,253 £272,762 4.2%
Eastbourne £240,625 £234,835 2.5%
Eastleigh £281,459 £278,607 1.0%
Eden £186,234 £198,130 -6.0%
Elmbridge £603,801 £561,675 7.5%
Enfield £397,193 £397,593 -0.1%
Epping Forest £461,607 £459,724 0.4%
Epsom and Ewell £456,256 £466,232 -2.1%
Erewash £160,294 £158,401 1.2%
Essex £309,674 £309,270 0.1%
Exeter £258,916 £252,646 2.5%
Fareham £288,768 £283,827 1.7%
Fenland £189,609 £184,631 2.7%
Folkestone and Hythe £249,909 £249,815 0.0%
Forest Heath £215,587 £206,164 4.6%
Forest of Dean £235,373 £226,839 3.8%
Fylde £189,093 £188,574 0.3%
Gateshead £129,572 £127,841 1.4%
Gedling £184,472 £178,768 3.2%
Gloucester £207,046 £196,270 5.5%
Gloucestershire £262,124 £255,788 2.5%
Gosport £205,321 £210,154 -2.3%
Gravesham £279,529 £275,743 1.4%
Great Yarmouth £171,328 £164,316 4.3%
Greenwich £372,803 £387,587 -3.8%
Guildford £446,138 £441,493 1.1%
Hackney £563,134 £533,507 5.6%
Halton £139,154 £133,573 4.2%
Hambleton £235,640 £227,463 3.6%
Hammersmith and Fulham £676,133 £728,771 -7.2%
Hampshire £311,649 £314,134 -0.8%
Harborough £294,174 £269,858 9.0%
Haringey £535,659 £549,346 -2.5%
Harlow £273,534 £270,054 1.3%
Harrogate £278,498 £280,442 -0.7%
Harrow £458,632 £472,443 -2.9%
Hart £392,537 £407,510 -3.7%
Hartlepool £101,034 £100,400 0.6%
Hastings £222,834 £208,512 6.9%
Havant £257,255 £262,088 -1.8%
Havering £362,698 £365,567 -0.8%
Herefordshire £236,925 £231,535 2.3%
Hertfordshire £389,485 £401,310 -2.9%
Hertsmere £449,850 £462,804 -2.8%
High Peak £195,986 £184,560 6.2%
Hillingdon £410,804 £406,259 1.1%
Hinckley and Bosworth £216,761 £212,117 2.2%
Horsham £381,161 £375,011 1.6%
Hounslow £404,615 £393,946 2.7%
Huntingdonshire £255,177 £253,100 0.8%
Hyndburn £91,678 £90,325 1.5%
Ipswich £195,805 £192,770 1.6%
Isle of Wight £213,265 £207,697 2.7%
Islington £642,894 £651,933 -1.4%
Kensington And Chelsea £1,163,716 £1,392,610 -16.4%
Kent £291,787 £289,553 0.8%
Kettering £204,425 £199,477 2.5%
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk £214,109 £208,467 2.7%
Kingston upon Thames £482,969 £494,430 -2.3%
Kirklees £148,885 £143,868 3.5%
Knowsley £128,043 £124,669 2.7%
Lambeth £498,431 £510,284 -2.3%
Lancashire £141,466 £139,990 1.1%
Lancaster £153,109 £151,302 1.2%
Leeds £184,517 £177,214 4.1%
Leicester £165,258 £165,212 0.0%
Leicestershire £227,042 £218,840 3.7%
Lewes £326,496 £317,155 2.9%
Lewisham £397,335 £406,499 -2.3%
Lichfield £246,177 £241,708 1.8%
Lincoln £157,576 £150,524 4.7%
Lincolnshire £186,078 £177,930 4.6%
Liverpool £131,276 £126,292 3.9%
Luton £232,397 £241,976 -4.0%
Maidstone £281,557 £296,508 -5.0%
Maldon £338,850 £334,836 1.2%
Malvern Hills £271,814 £252,718 7.6%
Manchester £178,039 £168,551 5.6%
Mansfield £133,379 £126,332 5.6%
Medway £241,714 £242,000 -0.1%
Melton £228,913 £217,892 5.1%
Mendip £257,503 £250,806 2.7%
Merton £514,903 £494,905 4.0%
Mid Devon £238,542 £230,211 3.6%
Mid Suffolk £267,682 £263,452 1.6%
Mid Sussex £378,728 £367,258 3.1%
Middlesbrough £104,817 £108,542 -3.4%
Milton Keynes £250,755 £262,702 -4.5%
Mole Valley £482,689 £497,324 -2.9%
New Forest £343,092 £340,470 0.8%
Newark and Sherwood £175,360 £180,837 -3.0%
Newcastle upon Tyne £153,442 £156,606 -2.0%
Newcastle-under-Lyme £157,378 £147,651 6.6%
Newham £370,525 £352,992 5.0%
Norfolk £227,014 £221,382 2.5%
North Devon £243,445 £228,154 6.7%
North Dorset £259,933 £260,407 -0.2%
North East Derbyshire £189,331 £182,004 4.0%
North East Lincolnshire £121,430 £115,454 5.2%
North Hertfordshire £322,720 £345,476 -6.6%
North Kesteven £210,407 £196,246 7.2%
North Lincolnshire £148,105 £137,009 8.1%
North Norfolk £253,469 £248,797 1.9%
North Somerset £255,695 £261,439 -2.2%
North Tyneside £158,628 £157,594 0.7%
North Warwickshire £204,638 £206,211 -0.8%
North West Leicestershire £205,774 £197,474 4.2%
North Yorkshire £218,558 £216,770 0.8%
Northampton £215,176 £207,309 3.8%
Northamptonshire £229,374 £225,430 1.7%
Northumberland £149,083 £152,333 -2.1%
Norwich £203,029 £198,448 2.3%
Nottinghamshire £172,904 £171,143 1.0%
Nuneaton and Bedworth £175,232 £170,045 3.1%
Oadby and Wigston £216,302 £209,187 3.4%
Oldham £133,578 £125,744 6.2%
Oxford £414,972 £396,482 4.7%
Oxfordshire £347,991 £352,776 -1.4%
Pendle £95,027 £99,018 -4.0%
Poole £301,426 £307,173 -1.9%
Portsmouth £207,033 £209,885 -1.4%
Preston £123,371 £126,273 -2.3%
Purbeck £306,589 £317,344 -3.4%
Reading £292,609 £301,684 -3.0%
Redbridge £410,799 £423,790 -3.1%
Redcar and Cleveland £117,643 £116,959 0.6%
Redditch £203,782 £201,980 0.9%
Reigate and Banstead £392,991 £406,052 -3.2%
Ribble Valley £214,265 £217,654 -1.6%
Richmond upon Thames £657,364 £639,450 2.8%
Richmondshire £197,395 £210,462 -6.2%
Rochdale £136,367 £130,144 4.8%
Rochford £351,526 £329,662 6.6%
Rossendale £136,802 £125,511 9.0%
Rother £292,205 £283,479 3.1%
Rotherham £136,555 £131,590 3.8%
Rugby £236,950 £232,579 1.9%
Runnymede £411,311 £410,369 0.2%
Rushcliffe £271,431 £262,546 3.4%
Rushmoor £279,922 £286,536 -2.3%
Rutland £308,910 £298,726 3.4%
Ryedale £235,885 £226,719 4.0%
Salford £165,254 £159,823 3.4%
Sandwell £150,604 £141,511 6.4%
Scarborough £161,874 £166,721 -2.9%
Sedgemoor £228,470 £221,708 3.0%
Sefton £168,200 £156,175 7.7%
Selby £203,733 £194,876 4.5%
Sevenoaks £456,835 £438,050 4.3%
Sheffield £161,475 £160,607 0.5%
Shropshire £215,576 £208,236 3.5%
Slough £287,465 £305,831 -6.0%
Solihull £286,501 £271,378 5.6%
Somerset £233,489 £228,477 2.2%
South Bucks £604,088 £607,725 -0.6%
South Cambridgeshire £369,809 £382,145 -3.2%
South Derbyshire £193,295 £188,192 2.7%
South Gloucestershire £277,101 £267,155 3.7%
South Hams £306,488 £295,298 3.8%
South Holland £186,497 £184,220 1.2%
South Kesteven £214,202 £212,382 0.9%
South Lakeland £231,761 £229,661 0.9%
South Norfolk £265,879 £251,693 5.6%
South Northamptonshire £322,837 £323,890 -0.3%
South Oxfordshire £394,567 £399,364 -1.2%
South Ribble £169,073 £168,109 0.6%
South Somerset £224,044 £220,224 1.7%
South Staffordshire £219,208 £228,977 -4.3%
South Tyneside £129,566 £122,572 5.7%
Southampton £208,692 £208,982 -0.1%
Southend-on-Sea £281,215 £280,001 0.4%
Southwark £499,353 £518,699 -3.7%
Spelthorne £363,147 £371,188 -2.2%
St Albans £500,681 £521,370 -4.0%
St Edmundsbury £289,094 £285,590 1.2%
St Helens £124,845 £127,418 -2.0%
Stafford £203,851 £198,994 2.4%
Staffordshire £189,342 £185,519 2.1%
Staffordshire Moorlands £176,856 £166,513 6.2%
Stevenage £288,529 £286,074 0.9%
Stockport £222,432 £215,887 3.0%
Stockton-on-Tees £135,932 £133,712 1.7%
Stoke-on-Trent £110,517 £106,714 3.6%
Stratford-on-Avon £332,156 £311,604 6.6%
Stroud £273,665 £271,295 0.9%
Suffolk £242,580 £238,393 1.8%
Suffolk Coastal £278,518 £279,446 -0.3%
Sunderland £114,835 £111,029 3.4%
Surrey £439,787 £439,837 0.0%
Surrey Heath £384,262 £385,665 -0.4%
Sutton £368,520 £376,096 -2.0%
Swale £243,995 £243,441 0.2%
Swindon £218,060 £215,272 1.3%
Tameside £146,531 £140,203 4.5%
Tamworth £179,781 £177,749 1.1%
Tandridge £440,593 £444,788 -0.9%
Taunton Deane £232,926 £229,049 1.7%
Teignbridge £243,437 £235,926 3.2%
Telford and Wrekin £165,555 £156,755 5.6%
Tendring £209,737 £219,502 -4.4%
Test Valley £326,137 £328,030 -0.6%
Tewkesbury £265,619 £266,359 -0.3%
Thanet £231,765 £229,769 0.9%
Three Rivers £519,194 £526,217 -1.3%
Thurrock £268,648 £266,377 0.9%
Tonbridge and Malling £365,451 £355,096 2.9%
Torbay £194,142 £198,997 -2.4%
Torridge £233,538 £227,690 2.6%
Tower Hamlets £428,538 £446,384 -4.0%
Trafford £284,221 £273,017 4.1%
Tunbridge Wells £380,064 £383,114 -0.8%
Uttlesford £396,371 £390,211 1.6%
Vale of White Horse £349,071 £346,645 0.7%
Wakefield £147,600 £142,632 3.5%
Walsall £163,478 £159,904 2.2%
Waltham Forest £435,765 £441,672 -1.3%
Wandsworth £572,014 £592,506 -3.5%
Warrington £187,724 £183,898 2.1%
Warwick £306,365 £301,304 1.7%
Warwickshire £253,678 £246,150 3.1%
Watford £341,142 £355,309 -4.0%
Waveney £194,156 £185,653 4.6%
Waverley £453,662 £449,875 0.8%
Wealden £343,559 £327,453 4.9%
Wellingborough £213,736 £215,249 -0.7%
Welwyn Hatfield £380,665 £394,129 -3.4%
West Berkshire £342,370 £348,011 -1.6%
West Devon £261,640 £245,702 6.5%
West Dorset £299,788 £284,621 5.3%
West Lancashire £190,873 £175,763 8.6%
West Lindsey £168,806 £162,453 3.9%
West Oxfordshire £320,305 £332,181 -3.6%
West Somerset £229,565 £223,994 2.5%
West Sussex £323,676 £321,694 0.6%
Weymouth and Portland £215,911 £228,637 -5.6%
Wigan £132,717 £128,019 3.7%
Wiltshire £272,092 £273,382 -0.5%
Winchester £426,859 £426,095 0.2%
Windsor and Maidenhead £481,111 £483,290 -0.5%
Wirral £157,117 £151,299 3.8%
Woking £413,492 £414,311 -0.2%
Wokingham £408,384 £417,417 -2.2%
Wolverhampton £151,273 £143,953 5.1%
Worcester £208,673 £210,458 -0.8%
Worcestershire £238,323 £229,688 3.8%
Worthing £285,757 £274,585 4.1%
Wychavon £284,192 £267,741 6.1%
Wycombe £387,271 £390,740 -0.9%
Wyre £148,304 £150,935 -1.7%
Wyre Forest £188,872 £177,412 6.5%
York £251,507 £241,856 4.0%
England £243,128 £240,428 1.1%

Average price by local authority for England

A heat map showing average price by local authority for England.

In March 2019, the most expensive area to live in was Kensington and Chelsea, where the cost of an average house was £1.2 million. In contrast, the cheapest area to purchase a property was Burnley, where an average house cost £77,000.

3.2 Annual price change by London borough

Annual price change by London borough

London borough March 2019 March 2018 Difference
Barking and Dagenham £300,517 £291,723 3.0%
Barnet £515,882 £538,120 -4.1%
Bexley £342,993 £339,632 1.0%
Brent £464,522 £482,967 -3.8%
Bromley £442,388 £441,430 0.2%
Camden £774,313 £853,396 -9.3%
City of London £860,634 £740,799 16.2%
City of Westminster £912,082 £1,060,664 -14.0%
Croydon £359,336 £366,045 -1.8%
Ealing £471,561 £483,878 -2.5%
Enfield £397,193 £397,593 -0.1%
Greenwich £372,803 £387,587 -3.8%
Hackney £563,134 £533,507 5.6%
Hammersmith and Fulham £676,133 £728,771 -7.2%
Haringey £535,659 £549,346 -2.5%
Harrow £458,632 £472,443 -2.9%
Havering £362,698 £365,567 -0.8%
Hillingdon £410,804 £406,259 1.1%
Hounslow £404,615 £393,946 2.7%
Islington £642,894 £651,933 -1.4%
Kensington And Chelsea £1,163,716 £1,392,610 -16.4%
Kingston upon Thames £482,969 £494,430 -2.3%
Lambeth £498,431 £510,284 -2.3%
Lewisham £397,335 £406,499 -2.3%
Merton £514,903 £494,905 4.0%
Newham £370,525 £352,992 5.0%
Redbridge £410,799 £423,790 -3.1%
Richmond upon Thames £657,364 £639,450 2.8%
Southwark £499,353 £518,699 -3.7%
Sutton £368,520 £376,096 -2.0%
Tower Hamlets £428,538 £446,384 -4.0%
Waltham Forest £435,765 £441,672 -1.3%
Wandsworth £572,014 £592,506 -3.5%

Average price by London borough

A heat map showing average price by London borough.

In March 2019, the most expensive borough to live in was Kensington and Chelsea, where the cost of an average house was £1.2 million. In contrast, the cheapest borough to purchase a property was Barking and Dagenham, where an average house cost £301,000.

3.3 Average price change by property type

Average price change by property type for England

Property type March 2019 March 2018 Difference
Detached £371,759 £363,951 2.1%
Semi-detached £228,890 £223,394 2.5%
Terraced £194,560 £194,044 0.3%
Flat or maisonette £222,197 £223,988 -0.8%
All £243,128 £240,428 1.1%

4. Sales volumes

The amount of time between the sale of a property and the registration of this information varies. It typically ranges between 2 weeks and 2 months but can be longer. Volume figures for the most recent 2 months are not yet at a reliable level for reporting, so they are not included in the report. Published transactions for recent months will increase as later registered transactions are incorporated into the index.

Sales volume data is also available by property status (new build and existing property) and funding status (cash and mortgage) in our downloadable data tables. Transactions involving the creation of a new register, such as new builds, are more complex and require more time to process. Read Revisions to the UK HPI data for more information.

4.1 Sales volumes by local authority

Sales volumes for England by local authority

Local authorities January 2019 January 2018
Adur 54 66
Allerdale 103 93
Amber Valley 160 142
Arun 172 202
Ashfield 133 152
Ashford 108 130
Aylesbury Vale 184 226
Babergh 91 95
Barking and Dagenham 107 154
Barnet 250 247
Barnsley 214 244
Barrow-in-Furness 91 69
Basildon 181 183
Basingstoke and Deane 167 213
Bassetlaw 97 144
Bath and North East Somerset 213 193
Bedford 137 184
Bexley 206 234
Birmingham 899 1,023
Blaby 111 122
Blackburn with Darwen 122 117
Blackpool 152 119
Bolsover 77 104
Bolton 267 268
Boston 67 86
Bournemouth 230 258
Bracknell Forest 118 137
Bradford 477 530
Braintree 144 157
Breckland 111 162
Brent 114 123
Brentwood 74 102
Brighton and Hove 218 263
Broadland 166 154
Bromley 255 299
Bromsgrove 71 113
Broxbourne 77 80
Broxtowe 116 156
Buckinghamshire 485 546
Burnley 89 89
Bury 185 206
Calderdale 208 192
Cambridge 75 86
Cambridgeshire 618 637
Camden 97 127
Cannock Chase 79 103
Canterbury 155 157
Carlisle 91 131
Castle Point 97 115
Central Bedfordshire 271 313
Charnwood 191 207
Chelmsford 150 188
Cheltenham 129 165
Cherwell 144 174
Cheshire East 412 505
Cheshire West and Chester 355 383
Chesterfield 93 104
Chichester 110 148
Chiltern 83 102
Chorley 99 159
Christchurch 52 83
City of Bristol 473 523
City of Derby 207 267
City of Kingston upon Hull 206 258
City of London 8 34
City of Nottingham 250 273
City of Peterborough 201 220
City of Plymouth 263 342
City of Westminster 108 208
Colchester 183 255
Copeland 43 56
Corby 66 92
Cornwall 622 659
Cotswold 92 103
County Durham 478 490
Coventry 246 326
Craven 67 71
Crawley 85 121
Croydon 235 326
Cumbria 491 542
Dacorum 134 183
Darlington 96 113
Dartford 112 189
Daventry 88 93
Derbyshire 827 889
Derbyshire Dales 71 83
Devon 867 961
Doncaster 283 298
Dorset 412 580
Dover 120 150
Dudley 286 311
Ealing 147 216
East Cambridgeshire 86 88
East Devon 196 181
East Dorset 77 122
East Hampshire 110 142
East Hertfordshire 128 167
East Lindsey 181 200
East Northamptonshire 87 118
East Riding of Yorkshire 434 431
East Staffordshire 120 154
East Sussex 614 684
Eastbourne 117 126
Eastleigh 139 166
Eden 46 61
Elmbridge 113 123
Enfield 186 186
Epping Forest 117 149
Epsom and Ewell 73 88
Erewash 101 122
Essex 1,435 1,743
Exeter 107 136
Fareham 137 117
Fenland 132 124
Folkestone and Hythe 136 184
Forest Heath 64 79
Forest of Dean 70 102
Fylde 75 104
Gateshead 145 195
Gedling 169 157
Gloucester 148 135
Gloucestershire 674 775
Gosport 96 74
Gravesham 87 96
Great Yarmouth 115 110
Greenwich 228 207
Guildford 105 104
Hackney 115 171
Halton 103 126
Hambleton 81 93
Hammersmith and Fulham 94 171
Hampshire 1,360 1,595
Harborough 86 96
Haringey 138 125
Harlow 72 88
Harrogate 161 168
Harrow 159 172
Hart 84 149
Hartlepool 94 76
Hastings 107 140
Havant 96 128
Havering 204 248
Herefordshire 159 215
Hertfordshire 992 1,196
Hertsmere 93 110
High Peak 101 92
Hillingdon 192 223
Hinckley and Bosworth 105 124
Horsham 153 165
Hounslow 145 204
Huntingdonshire 192 199
Hyndburn 94 73
Ipswich 108 147
Isle of Wight 177 179
Islington 115 120
Kensington And Chelsea 103 129
Kent 1,478 1,923
Kettering 108 130
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk 148 202
Kingston upon Thames 144 140
Kirklees 382 380
Knowsley 129 119
Lambeth 193 264
Lancashire 1,172 1,297
Lancaster 130 165
Leeds 780 839
Leicester 206 212
Leicestershire 703 801
Lewes 105 132
Lewisham 172 260
Lichfield 97 117
Lincoln 119 141
Lincolnshire 866 1,006
Liverpool 409 473
Luton 147 245
Maidstone 146 213
Maldon 58 83
Malvern Hills 61 89
Manchester 437 465
Mansfield 118 117
Medway 235 332
Melton 44 56
Mendip 114 140
Merton 159 174
Mid Devon 74 90
Mid Suffolk 113 117
Mid Sussex 163 164
Middlesbrough 129 142
Milton Keynes 253 307
Mole Valley 64 125
New Forest 206 226
Newark and Sherwood 115 139
Newcastle upon Tyne 238 236
Newcastle-under-Lyme 112 122
Newham 155 266
Norfolk 962 1,142
North Devon 95 107
North Dorset 70 77
North East Derbyshire 98 113
North East Lincolnshire 161 195
North Hertfordshire 113 143
North Kesteven 145 183
North Lincolnshire 178 165
North Norfolk 118 160
North Somerset 249 277
North Tyneside 207 238
North Warwickshire 65 58
North West Leicestershire 101 133
North Yorkshire 666 684
Northampton 201 256
Northamptonshire 699 839
Northumberland 320 311
Norwich 155 171
Nottinghamshire 853 995
Nuneaton and Bedworth 131 172
Oadby and Wigston 65 54
Oldham 191 198
Oxford 89 92
Oxfordshire 590 664
Pendle 96 87
Poole 177 221
Portsmouth 197 264
Preston 116 149
Purbeck 52 70
Reading 147 170
Redbridge 143 204
Redcar and Cleveland 132 141
Redditch 91 87
Reigate and Banstead 142 156
Ribble Valley 64 53
Richmond upon Thames 152 181
Richmondshire 48 43
Rochdale 148 188
Rochford 104 105
Rossendale 83 73
Rother 110 116
Rotherham 210 208
Rugby 114 119
Runnymede 88 78
Rushcliffe 104 128
Rushmoor 74 101
Rutland 39 52
Ryedale 41 56
Salford 238 310
Sandwell 209 233
Scarborough 139 157
Sedgemoor 117 120
Sefton 288 251
Selby 127 88
Sevenoaks 104 136
Sheffield 500 514
Shropshire 282 335
Slough 79 106
Solihull 215 256
Somerset 566 625
South Bucks 76 65
South Cambridgeshire 132 139
South Derbyshire 126 126
South Gloucestershire 275 308
South Hams 107 122
South Holland 95 85
South Kesteven 140 170
South Lakeland 117 132
South Norfolk 149 181
South Northamptonshire 69 92
South Oxfordshire 129 143
South Ribble 109 132
South Somerset 187 174
South Staffordshire 97 90
South Tyneside 113 119
Southampton 200 247
Southend-on-Sea 183 218
Southwark 186 230
Spelthorne 92 97
St Albans 129 148
St Edmundsbury 85 118
St Helens 127 168
Stafford 117 177
Staffordshire 790 965
Staffordshire Moorlands 75 106
Stevenage 74 85
Stockport 305 347
Stockton-on-Tees 214 234
Stoke-on-Trent 220 263
Stratford-on-Avon 125 154
Stroud 144 129
Suffolk 736 827
Suffolk Coastal 129 134
Sunderland 216 216
Surrey 1,062 1,185
Surrey Heath 81 87
Sutton 171 196
Swale 138 157
Swindon 270 285
Tameside 179 235
Tamworth 93 96
Tandridge 81 86
Taunton Deane 122 139
Teignbridge 158 166
Telford and Wrekin 172 137
Tendring 154 221
Test Valley 134 161
Tewkesbury 91 140
Thanet 145 227
Three Rivers 79 96
Thurrock 151 178
Tonbridge and Malling 106 150
Torbay 174 188
Torridge 60 92
Tower Hamlets 201 208
Trafford 217 288
Tunbridge Wells 120 127
Uttlesford 95 89
Vale of White Horse 119 145
Wakefield 350 338
Walsall 218 240
Waltham Forest 189 180
Wandsworth 259 333
Warrington 180 208
Warwick 132 176
Warwickshire 567 679
Watford 73 88
Waveney 142 136
Waverley 129 130
Wealden 175 168
Wellingborough 79 56
Welwyn Hatfield 92 94
West Berkshire 125 163
West Devon 69 66
West Dorset 84 129
West Lancashire 94 96
West Lindsey 119 119
West Oxfordshire 109 105
West Somerset 26 51
West Sussex 873 1,002
Weymouth and Portland 77 99
Wigan 306 384
Wiltshire 516 521
Winchester 117 109
Windsor and Maidenhead 126 129
Wirral 311 341
Woking 86 107
Wokingham 146 190
Wolverhampton 166 209
Worcester 88 133
Worcestershire 546 654
Worthing 135 131
Wychavon 137 136
Wycombe 142 151
Wyre 123 112
Wyre Forest 97 96
York 207 205
England 49,745 57,138

Note: The ‘Difference’ column has been removed from this table as the latest month’s data are not yet complete.

The estimate for January 2019 is calculated based on around 85% of the final registered transactions. The number of property transactions for January 2019 will increase as more transactions are incorporated into the index.

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for January 2018 with the provisional estimate for January 2019, volume transactions fell by 1.7% in England.

UK Property Transaction Statistics published by HM Revenue & Customs (which differ in coverage but are more complete for this period), report that on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, volume transactions fell by 3.3% in England in the year to January 2019.

4.2 Sales volumes by London borough

Sales volumes by London borough

London borough January 2019 January 2018
Barking and Dagenham 107 154
Barnet 250 247
Bexley 206 234
Brent 114 123
Bromley 255 299
Camden 97 127
City of London 8 34
City of Westminster 108 208
Croydon 235 326
Ealing 147 216
Enfield 186 186
Greenwich 228 207
Hackney 115 171
Hammersmith and Fulham 94 171
Haringey 138 125
Harrow 159 172
Havering 204 248
Hillingdon 192 223
Hounslow 145 204
Islington 115 120
Kensington And Chelsea 103 129
Kingston upon Thames 144 140
Lambeth 193 264
Lewisham 172 260
Merton 159 174
Newham 155 266
Redbridge 143 204
Richmond upon Thames 152 181
Southwark 186 230
Sutton 171 196
Tower Hamlets 201 208
Waltham Forest 189 180
Wandsworth 259 333

Note: The ‘Difference’ column has been removed from this table as the latest month’s data are not yet complete.

The estimate for January 2019 is calculated based on around 85% of the final registered transactions. The number of property transactions for January 2019 will increase as more transactions are incorporated into the index.

4.3 Sales volumes for England

Sales volumes for England over the past five years

Date Sales volumes for England
January 2015 56,362
January 2016 59,992
January 2017 57,498
January 2018 57,138
January 2019 49,745

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for January 2018 with the provisional estimate for January 2019, volume transactions fell by 1.7% in England.

UK Property Transaction Statistics published by HM Revenue & Customs (which differ in coverage but are more complete for this period) report that on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, volume transactions fell by 3.3% in England in the year to January 2019.

4.4 Sales volumes for London

Sales volumes for London over the past 5 years

Date Sales volumes for London
January 2015 8,142
January 2016 7,927
January 2017 6,931
January 2018 6,584
January 2019 5,338

5. Property status

Transactions involving the creation of a new register, such as new builds, are more complex and need more time to process. This means they can take longer to appear in the land registers. The volume of new build transactions for the most recent 2 months are not at a reliable level for reporting the breakdown between new build and existing resold property, so they are not included in the report.

New build and existing resold property for England by region

Region Average new build January 2019 Average existing January 2019 New build monthly change Existing monthly change New build annual change Existing annual change
London £480,874 £471,344 -1.5% -0.3% -3.2% -1.5%
North East £182,147 £121,895 -1.5% -2.2% 0.7% 1.7%
East Midlands £256,955 £186,591 -0.4% -0.2% 2.4% 3.8%
East of England £356,639 £284,033 -1.1% -0.8% -1.1% 0.1%
North West £216,084 £158,287 -0.7% -1.0% 2.6% 3.8%
South East £370,072 £319,046 -0.6% 0.0% -1.7% 0.5%
South West £297,779 £252,644 -0.6% -0.9% 0.0% 1.3%
West Midlands £263,893 £191,737 -1.2% -1.7% 3.8% 4.2%
Yorkshire and The Humber £200,453 £157,351 -0.9% -1.2% 1.1% 2.7%
England £299,932 £241,215 -0.9% -0.8% 0.0% 1.7%

Note: since the October 2017 release, amendments have been made to our estimation model when calculating our provisional estimate. Find out further information and the impact of this change in methods used to produce the UK HPI.

6. Buyer status

First time buyer and former owner occupier for England by region

Region Average first time buyer price March 2019 Average former owner occupier price March 2019 First time buyer monthly change Former owner occupier monthly change First time buyer annual change Former owner occupier annual change
London £405,658 £522,105 -0.1% -0.7% -2.0% -1.8%
North East £105,609 £140,073 -1.1% -1.1% -1.1% -0.6%
East Midlands £159,798 £215,036 -0.4% -0.4% 2.7% 3.0%
East of England £238,705 £322,906 -1.1% -1.0% -0.3% 0.3%
North West £134,071 £181,538 -2.0% -1.3% 2.1% 2.9%
South East £254,718 £369,031 -0.6% -0.5% -0.9% -0.1%
South West £209,515 £285,362 -0.2% -0.4% 1.2% 1.3%
West Midlands £163,888 £225,437 -0.6% -0.4% 3.3% 3.5%
Yorkshire and The Humber £138,946 £182,477 1.8% 1.7% 3.4% 3.8%
England £203,695 £276,268 -0.5% -0.5% 0.8% 1.4%

7. Funding status

Cash and mortgage indicator for England by region

Region Average cash price March 2019 Average mortgage price March 2019 Cash monthly change Mortgage monthly change Cash annual change Mortgage annual change
London £480,179 £457,824 -1.1% -0.2% -3.5% -1.5%
North East £112,432 £129,067 -1.3% -1.1% -1.4% -0.5%
East Midlands £183,866 £193,297 -0.3% -0.5% 3.0% 2.8%
East of England £271,351 £294,028 -1.4% -0.9% -0.1% 0.1%
North West £146,898 £166,197 -1.8% -1.6% 2.1% 2.7%
South East £305,113 £325,263 -0.2% -0.7% -0.1% -0.6%
South West £250,171 £256,010 -0.4% -0.3% 0.9% 1.4%
West Midlands Region £189,122 £200,068 -0.2% -0.6% 3.5% 3.4%
Yorkshire and The Humber £155,633 £165,462 1.5% 1.9% 3.1% 3.9%
England £228,456 £250,495 -0.6% -0.5% 1.0% 1.2%

8. Repossession sales volumes

Due to a period of 2 weeks to 2 months 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.

Repossession sales volumes by government office region

Region Sales volume January 2019
East Midlands 41
East of England 14
London 38
North East 65
North West 131
South East 43
South West 39
West Midlands 35
Yorkshire and The Humber 83
England 489
A heat map showing repossessions in England.

9. Access the data

Download the data as CSV files or access it with our UK HPI tool.

Data revisions

View any revisions to previously published data in the data downloads or find out more about revisions in our guidance About the UK HPI.

10. 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 HM 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.

11. Contact for England queries

Eileen Morrison, Data Services Team Leader, HM Land Registry

Email eileen.morrison@landregistry.gov.uk

Telephone 0300 006 5288