Accredited official statistics

UK House Price Index England: August 2021

Updated 20 October 2021

Applies to England

1. Headline statistics for August 2021

The average price of a property in England was £280,921

The annual price change of a property in England was 9.8%

The monthly price change of a property in England was 3.2%

The index figure for England (January 2015 = 100) was 138.5

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.

Next publication of UK HPI

The September 2021 UK HPI will be published at 9.30am on Wednesday 17 November 2021. See the calendar of release dates for more information.

2. Economic statement

England house prices grew by 9.8% in the year to August 2021, up from 7.5% in July 2021. The North East was the fastest growing region with annual growth of 13.3% in the year to August 2021. The lowest annual growth was in London, where prices increased by 7.5% over the year to August 2021.

On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, average house prices in England increased by 3.2% between July and August 2021, compared with an increase of 1.0% during the same period a year earlier (July and August 2020). On a seasonally adjusted basis, average house prices in England increased by 2.9% between July and August 2021.

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for June 2020 with the provisional estimate for June 2021, volume transactions increased by 5.3% in England. UK volume transactions increased by 24.5% over the same period.

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 increased by 220.7% in England in the year to June 2021.

Across England, detached houses showed the biggest increase out of all property types, growing by 12.3% in the year to August 2021 to £438,000. The lowest annual change was in flats and maisonettes which increased by 6.0% in the year to August 2021 to £240,000.

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

Average house prices in England increased by 9.8% in the year to August 2021, up from 7.5% in July 2021.

In London, average house prices increased by 7.5% in the year to August 2021, up from an increase of 2.9% in July 2021.

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.

Please note that data for City of London for the months of July and August 2021 have been suppressed due to unusually low transaction numbers and the resulting impact on the quality of data.

Local authorities August 2021 August 2020 Difference
Adur £344,316 £313,344 9.9%
Allerdale £159,777 £154,436 3.5%
Amber Valley £206,525 £185,359 11.4%
Arun £324,330 £282,749 14.7%
Ashfield £167,914 £149,340 12.4%
Ashford £314,726 £298,122 5.6%
Babergh £314,360 £277,610 13.2%
Barking and Dagenham £334,219 £303,989 9.9%
Barnet £552,793 £526,871 4.9%
Barnsley £149,055 £129,415 15.2%
Barrow-in-Furness £144,580 £127,065 13.8%
Basildon £340,106 £316,365 7.5%
Basingstoke and Deane £329,429 £295,451 11.5%
Bassetlaw £178,771 £162,177 10.2%
Bath and North East Somerset £383,537 £354,205 8.3%
Bedford £324,370 £282,678 14.7%
Bexley £372,338 £347,943 7.0%
Birmingham £209,176 £192,432 8.7%
Blaby £264,702 £241,487 9.6%
Blackburn with Darwen £135,998 £118,697 14.6%
Blackpool £123,015 £107,328 14.6%
Bolsover £154,613 £133,343 16.0%
Bolton £164,586 £143,491 14.7%
Boston £173,304 £159,953 8.3%
Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole £313,983 £291,119 7.9%
Bracknell Forest £356,459 £339,183 5.1%
Bradford £156,076 £145,822 7.0%
Braintree £303,843 £284,067 7.0%
Breckland £243,656 £235,085 3.6%
Brent £516,260 £497,947 3.7%
Brentwood £452,606 £420,799 7.6%
Brighton and Hove £388,764 £371,156 4.7%
Broadland £312,207 £269,346 15.9%
Bromley £464,889 £434,237 7.1%
Bromsgrove £341,130 £294,386 15.9%
Broxbourne £372,051 £345,215 7.8%
Broxtowe £212,742 £197,893 7.5%
Buckinghamshire £442,689 £397,474 11.4%
Burnley £107,238 £91,115 17.7%
Bury £208,949 £191,976 8.8%
Calderdale £166,544 £151,384 10.0%
Cambridge £493,297 £441,821 11.7%
Cambridgeshire £320,693 £295,791 8.4%
Camden £949,175 £835,652 13.6%
Cannock Chase £205,916 £179,896 14.5%
Canterbury £339,946 £305,876 11.1%
Carlisle £154,212 £136,085 13.3%
Castle Point £338,831 £311,389 8.8%
Central Bedfordshire £334,307 £307,817 8.6%
Charnwood £252,614 £226,531 11.5%
Chelmsford £346,802 £338,228 2.5%
Cheltenham £295,038 £287,935 2.5%
Cherwell £337,807 £290,861 16.1%
Cheshire East £262,395 £235,300 11.5%
Cheshire West and Chester £244,536 £212,066 15.3%
Chesterfield £174,552 £162,696 7.3%
Chichester £433,554 £392,189 10.5%
Chorley £213,726 £184,705 15.7%
City of Bristol £307,523 £295,380 4.1%
City of Derby £180,966 £167,075 8.3%
City of Kingston upon Hull £121,300 £114,509 5.9%
City of London - £828,097 -
City of Nottingham £171,762 £157,126 9.3%
City of Peterborough £214,586 £195,908 9.5%
City of Plymouth £197,944 £181,910 8.8%
City of Westminster £1,000,516 £976,092 2.5%
Colchester £296,002 £260,865 13.5%
Copeland £132,204 £126,959 4.1%
Cornwall £270,458 £240,680 12.4%
Cotswold £401,732 £403,652 -0.5%
County Durham £120,228 £103,130 16.6%
Coventry £204,170 £190,678 7.1%
Craven £245,659 £232,578 5.6%
Crawley £296,047 £278,524 6.3%
Croydon £390,599 £374,593 4.3%
Cumbria £175,105 £161,135 8.7%
Dacorum £436,905 £408,549 6.9%
Darlington £147,125 £130,205 13.0%
Dartford £327,213 £308,753 6.0%
Derbyshire £206,118 £186,152 10.7%
Derbyshire Dales £307,645 £279,112 10.2%
Devon £290,214 £264,948 9.5%
Doncaster £148,851 £135,061 10.2%
Dorset £314,931 £288,218 9.3%
Dover £269,792 £251,465 7.3%
Dudley £208,498 £188,739 10.5%
Ealing £516,709 £485,002 6.5%
East Cambridgeshire £314,326 £289,333 8.6%
East Devon £314,174 £290,350 8.2%
East Hampshire £406,692 £381,068 6.7%
East Hertfordshire £418,682 £399,525 4.8%
East Lindsey £203,894 £177,969 14.6%
East Riding of Yorkshire £204,773 £183,252 11.7%
East Staffordshire £207,506 £186,990 11.0%
East Suffolk £271,703 £250,771 8.3%
East Sussex £324,247 £282,111 14.9%
Eastbourne £263,330 £239,438 10.0%
Eastleigh £328,285 £287,544 14.2%
Eden £220,735 £206,991 6.6%
Elmbridge £665,921 £588,362 13.2%
Enfield £445,555 £398,713 11.7%
Epping Forest £470,288 £469,526 0.2%
Epsom and Ewell £503,388 £470,990 6.9%
Erewash £188,046 £171,656 9.5%
Essex £343,658 £313,732 9.5%
Exeter £280,941 £258,984 8.5%
Fareham £333,368 £305,915 9.0%
Fenland £216,056 £194,726 11.0%
Folkestone and Hythe £272,064 £260,855 4.3%
Forest of Dean £264,292 £250,148 5.7%
Fylde £222,912 £195,215 14.2%
Gateshead £142,959 £133,335 7.2%
Gedling £216,264 £197,929 9.3%
Gloucester £223,316 £208,915 6.9%
Gloucestershire £290,857 £276,901 5.0%
Gosport £233,244 £213,467 9.3%
Gravesham £318,577 £279,203 14.1%
Great Yarmouth £190,468 £172,374 10.5%
Greenwich £420,070 £389,982 7.7%
Guildford £472,649 £444,970 6.2%
Hackney £650,941 £589,161 10.5%
Halton £168,447 £152,793 10.2%
Hambleton £260,741 £233,881 11.5%
Hammersmith and Fulham £881,616 £766,633 15.0%
Hampshire £352,078 £317,870 10.8%
Harborough £341,734 £299,249 14.2%
Haringey £609,713 £566,348 7.7%
Harlow £306,752 £274,199 11.9%
Harrogate £305,685 £285,554 7.0%
Harrow £455,619 £456,652 -0.2%
Hart £441,110 £410,502 7.5%
Hartlepool £122,626 £105,991 15.7%
Hastings £257,805 £218,165 18.2%
Havant £310,886 £272,788 14.0%
Havering £400,178 £373,488 7.1%
Herefordshire £263,472 £247,216 6.6%
Hertfordshire £433,504 £401,389 8.0%
Hertsmere £514,996 £468,611 9.9%
High Peak £224,410 £207,400 8.2%
Hillingdon £447,558 £410,439 9.0%
Hinckley and Bosworth £246,453 £226,838 8.6%
Horsham £424,512 £371,972 14.1%
Hounslow £461,281 £410,968 12.2%
Huntingdonshire £279,974 £256,864 9.0%
Hyndburn £118,132 £99,100 19.2%
Ipswich £219,276 £197,155 11.2%
Isle of Wight £250,247 £228,232 9.6%
Islington £705,047 £677,679 4.0%
Kensington and Chelsea £1,450,425 £1,325,974 9.4%
Kent £322,197 £298,780 7.8%
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk £243,141 £222,501 9.3%
Kingston upon Thames £530,476 £499,763 6.1%
Kirklees £170,637 £157,535 8.3%
Knowsley £160,859 £133,787 20.2%
Lambeth £490,790 £541,163 -9.3%
Lancashire £171,337 £151,010 13.5%
Lancaster £181,852 £164,215 10.7%
Leeds £216,580 £195,814 10.6%
Leicester £206,498 £187,323 10.2%
Leicestershire £264,084 £237,415 11.2%
Lewes £383,067 £326,935 17.2%
Lewisham £430,904 £420,027 2.6%
Lichfield £290,816 £254,269 14.4%
Lincoln £169,115 £159,195 6.2%
Lincolnshire £207,046 £188,691 9.7%
Liverpool £164,550 £143,468 14.7%
Luton £254,749 £227,863 11.8%
Maidstone £318,699 £291,829 9.2%
Maldon £375,496 £331,836 13.2%
Malvern Hills £314,064 £265,497 18.3%
Manchester £203,835 £192,844 5.7%
Mansfield £160,378 £145,094 10.5%
Medway £271,756 £243,924 11.4%
Melton £271,019 £237,331 14.2%
Mendip £313,340 £260,142 20.4%
Merton £579,958 £528,823 9.7%
Mid Devon £260,925 £244,873 6.6%
Mid Suffolk £288,317 £264,409 9.0%
Mid Sussex £427,197 £372,939 14.5%
Middlesbrough £124,389 £112,814 10.3%
Milton Keynes £291,347 £263,046 10.8%
Mole Valley £532,468 £477,123 11.6%
New Forest £393,529 £341,110 15.4%
Newark and Sherwood £213,277 £188,455 13.2%
Newcastle upon Tyne £177,877 £163,770 8.6%
Newcastle-under-Lyme £173,803 £157,794 10.1%
Newham £379,668 £373,577 1.6%
Norfolk £256,002 £232,976 9.9%
North Devon £263,838 £248,439 6.2%
North East Derbyshire £220,838 £196,269 12.5%
North East Lincolnshire £138,285 £127,273 8.7%
North Hertfordshire £374,482 £345,128 8.5%
North Kesteven £236,509 £217,781 8.6%
North Lincolnshire £170,766 £152,672 11.9%
North Norfolk £300,856 £257,862 16.7%
North Northamptonshire £244,496 £215,271 13.6%
North Somerset £307,733 £273,899 12.4%
North Tyneside £178,715 £165,692 7.9%
North Warwickshire £238,738 £211,096 13.1%
North West Leicestershire £241,385 £216,602 11.4%
North Yorkshire £252,147 £227,058 11.0%
Northumberland £184,928 £160,691 15.1%
Norwich £222,853 £204,694 8.9%
Nottinghamshire £205,046 £187,000 9.7%
Nuneaton and Bedworth £204,698 £184,389 11.0%
Oadby and Wigston £251,130 £229,294 9.5%
Oldham £170,014 £143,794 18.2%
Oxford £428,298 £424,223 1.0%
Oxfordshire £398,884 £364,277 9.5%
Pendle £123,492 £106,713 15.7%
Portsmouth £227,590 £214,569 6.1%
Preston £145,799 £132,487 10.0%
Reading £325,230 £289,865 12.2%
Redbridge £457,883 £419,045 9.3%
Redcar and Cleveland £142,357 £124,213 14.6%
Redditch £236,531 £216,105 9.5%
Reigate and Banstead £414,491 £413,160 0.3%
Ribble Valley £251,053 £218,657 14.8%
Richmond upon Thames £721,808 £689,620 4.7%
Richmondshire £259,310 £215,098 20.6%
Rochdale £168,298 £146,222 15.1%
Rochford £405,275 £346,112 17.1%
Rossendale £182,249 £146,279 24.6%
Rother £347,887 £292,714 18.8%
Rotherham £167,293 £144,084 16.1%
Rugby £274,135 £238,729 14.8%
Runnymede £427,930 £415,664 3.0%
Rushcliffe £308,108 £295,522 4.3%
Rushmoor £314,978 £285,791 10.2%
Rutland £349,094 £332,370 5.0%
Ryedale £282,232 £239,796 17.7%
Salford £200,514 £169,814 18.1%
Sandwell £176,752 £157,453 12.3%
Scarborough £190,203 £171,388 11.0%
Sedgemoor £261,862 £227,617 15.0%
Sefton £188,246 £169,438 11.1%
Selby £237,041 £209,112 13.4%
Sevenoaks £457,996 £448,543 2.1%
Sheffield £192,236 £170,609 12.7%
Shropshire £255,156 £218,238 16.9%
Slough £321,048 £300,881 6.7%
Solihull £307,239 £286,537 7.2%
Somerset £270,093 £239,758 12.7%
Somerset West and Taunton £260,393 £239,038 8.9%
South Cambridgeshire £396,531 £379,345 4.5%
South Derbyshire £219,287 £197,527 11.0%
South Gloucestershire £321,084 £282,458 13.7%
South Hams £345,529 £311,636 10.9%
South Holland £220,610 £187,933 17.4%
South Kesteven £229,242 £218,248 5.0%
South Lakeland £264,579 £242,981 8.9%
South Norfolk £290,836 £270,607 7.5%
South Oxfordshire £479,651 £439,826 9.1%
South Ribble £197,125 £177,516 11.0%
South Somerset £260,040 £236,840 9.8%
South Staffordshire £271,004 £241,115 12.4%
South Tyneside £149,470 £131,897 13.3%
Southampton £220,826 £212,234 4.0%
Southend-on-Sea £322,656 £289,406 11.5%
Southwark £538,855 £506,126 6.5%
Spelthorne £380,882 £365,705 4.2%
St Albans £588,254 £513,788 14.5%
St Helens £159,784 £140,488 13.7%
Stafford £235,324 £214,771 9.6%
Staffordshire £221,710 £199,601 11.1%
Staffordshire Moorlands £205,334 £190,537 7.8%
Stevenage £302,342 £281,005 7.6%
Stockport £266,610 £239,884 11.1%
Stockton-on-Tees £155,192 £134,669 15.2%
Stoke-on-Trent £133,457 £116,689 14.4%
Stratford-on-Avon £379,732 £317,396 19.6%
Stroud £305,359 £284,661 7.3%
Suffolk £272,839 £247,080 10.4%
Sunderland £132,345 £116,420 13.7%
Surrey £479,629 £445,532 7.7%
Surrey Heath £440,541 £380,311 15.8%
Sutton £401,756 £377,325 6.5%
Swale £270,882 £252,592 7.2%
Swindon £236,394 £218,350 8.3%
Tameside £185,330 £160,492 15.5%
Tamworth £217,594 £194,100 12.1%
Tandridge £531,217 £460,052 15.5%
Teignbridge £283,716 £257,832 10.0%
Telford and Wrekin £198,853 £172,814 15.1%
Tendring £257,166 £221,049 16.3%
Test Valley £362,997 £329,662 10.1%
Tewkesbury £310,229 £286,284 8.4%
Thanet £279,204 £243,745 14.5%
Three Rivers £555,717 £513,760 8.2%
Thurrock £298,107 £272,737 9.3%
Tonbridge and Malling £394,033 £377,608 4.3%
Torbay £221,445 £202,527 9.3%
Torridge £267,841 £236,121 13.4%
Tower Hamlets £555,876 £461,176 20.5%
Trafford £338,650 £303,715 11.5%
Tunbridge Wells £418,114 £382,102 9.4%
Uttlesford £449,437 £397,492 13.1%
Vale of White Horse £390,939 £354,321 10.3%
Wakefield £178,468 £154,490 15.5%
Walsall £200,038 £175,726 13.8%
Waltham Forest £495,405 £449,588 10.2%
Wandsworth £637,841 £609,910 4.6%
Warrington £228,970 £200,146 14.4%
Warwick £331,837 £309,662 7.2%
Warwickshire £288,985 £255,791 13.0%
Watford £367,443 £358,750 2.4%
Waverley £499,608 £466,642 7.1%
Wealden £382,697 £338,032 13.2%
Welwyn Hatfield £422,887 £390,556 8.3%
West Berkshire £363,887 £341,104 6.7%
West Devon £300,844 £250,763 20.0%
West Lancashire £205,740 £189,404 8.6%
West Lindsey £190,879 £176,302 8.3%
West Northamptonshire £269,154 £244,853 9.9%
West Oxfordshire £365,626 £343,509 6.4%
West Suffolk £294,049 £260,734 12.8%
West Sussex £363,617 £322,481 12.8%
Wigan £162,502 £141,384 14.9%
Wiltshire £303,916 £276,448 9.9%
Winchester £453,746 £422,460 7.4%
Windsor and Maidenhead £503,483 £465,193 8.2%
Wirral £188,221 £165,712 13.6%
Woking £445,087 £420,820 5.8%
Wokingham £426,274 £416,466 2.4%
Wolverhampton £175,362 £160,028 9.6%
Worcester £233,952 £216,169 8.2%
Worcestershire £280,101 £243,429 15.1%
Worthing £309,350 £269,635 14.7%
Wychavon £334,617 £275,879 21.3%
Wyre £170,000 £156,791 8.4%
Wyre Forest £229,482 £198,509 15.6%
York £284,750 £255,945 11.3%
England £280,921 £255,802 9.8%

Average price by local authority for England

In August 2021, the most expensive area to purchase a property was Kensington and Chelsea, where the average cost was £1.5 million. In contrast, the cheapest area to purchase a property was Burnley, where the average cost was £107,000.

3.2 Annual price change by London borough

Annual price change by London borough

London borough August 2021 August 2020 Difference
Barking and Dagenham £334,219 £303,989 9.9%
Barnet £552,793 £526,871 4.9%
Bexley £372,338 £347,943 7.0%
Brent £516,260 £497,947 3.7%
Bromley £464,889 £434,237 7.1%
Camden £949,175 £835,652 13.6%
City of London - £828,097 -
City of Westminster £1,000,516 £976,092 2.5%
Croydon £390,599 £374,593 4.3%
Ealing £516,709 £485,002 6.5%
Enfield £445,555 £398,713 11.7%
Greenwich £420,070 £389,982 7.7%
Hackney £650,941 £589,161 10.5%
Hammersmith and Fulham £881,616 £766,633 15.0%
Haringey £609,713 £566,348 7.7%
Harrow £455,619 £456,652 -0.2%
Havering £400,178 £373,488 7.1%
Hillingdon £447,558 £410,439 9.0%
Hounslow £461,281 £410,968 12.2%
Islington £705,047 £677,679 4.0%
Kensington and Chelsea £1,450,425 £1,325,974 9.4%
Kingston upon Thames £530,476 £499,763 6.1%
Lambeth £490,790 £541,163 -9.3%
Lewisham £430,904 £420,027 2.6%
Merton £579,958 £528,823 9.7%
Newham £379,668 £373,577 1.6%
Redbridge £457,883 £419,045 9.3%
Richmond upon Thames £721,808 £689,620 4.7%
Southwark £538,855 £506,126 6.5%
Sutton £401,756 £377,325 6.5%
Tower Hamlets £555,876 £461,176 20.5%
Waltham Forest £495,405 £449,588 10.2%
Wandsworth £637,841 £609,910 4.6%

Average price by London borough

In August 2021, the most expensive borough to purchase a property was Kensington and Chelsea, where the average cost was £1.5 million. In contrast, the cheapest borough to purchase a property was Barking and Dagenham, where the average cost was £334,000.

3.3 Average price change by property type

Average price change by property type for England

Property type August 2021 August 2020 Difference
Detached £438,195 £390,210 12.3%
Semi-detached £267,585 £242,027 10.6%
Terraced £227,510 £208,306 9.2%
Flat or maisonette £239,794 £226,269 6.0%
All £280,921 £255,802 9.8%

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 June 2021 June 2020
Adur 58 57
Allerdale 72 99
Amber Valley 73 156
Arun 197 177
Ashfield 64 139
Ashford 114 131
Babergh 88 105
Barking and Dagenham 99 96
Barnet 275 179
Barnsley 127 237
Barrow-in-Furness 57 72
Basildon 162 185
Basingstoke and Deane 128 161
Bassetlaw 78 165
Bath and North East Somerset 163 161
Bedford 141 172
Bexley 203 200
Birmingham 470 690
Blaby 84 102
Blackburn with Darwen 84 105
Blackpool 69 97
Bolsover 42 83
Bolton 174 219
Boston 35 46
Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole 451 380
Bracknell Forest 122 105
Bradford 311 405
Braintree 136 152
Breckland 108 121
Brent 122 75
Brentwood 118 64
Brighton and Hove 296 188
Broadland 106 132
Bromley 362 269
Bromsgrove 72 92
Broxbourne 85 69
Broxtowe 101 99
Buckinghamshire 482 440
Burnley 61 72
Bury 106 132
Calderdale 133 180
Cambridge 71 87
Cambridgeshire 508 587
Camden 155 77
Cannock Chase 70 129
Canterbury 136 136
Carlisle 90 140
Castle Point 79 92
Central Bedfordshire 290 345
Charnwood 109 217
Chelmsford 176 198
Cheltenham 112 127
Cherwell 139 127
Cheshire East 370 479
Cheshire West and Chester 272 319
Chesterfield 63 86
Chichester 149 93
Chorley 73 114
City of Bristol 352 355
City of Derby 133 207
City of Kingston upon Hull 104 213
City of London 13 3
City of Nottingham 123 200
City of Peterborough 99 202
City of Plymouth 162 237
City of Westminster 179 87
Colchester 153 197
Copeland 41 61
Cornwall 441 604
Cotswold 85 92
County Durham 293 510
Coventry 160 245
Craven 60 68
Crawley 98 84
Croydon 323 231
Cumbria 404 550
Dacorum 158 134
Darlington 58 96
Dartford 85 109
Derbyshire 516 898
Derbyshire Dales 43 65
Devon 752 748
Doncaster 164 287
Dorset 365 392
Dover 105 104
Dudley 166 249
Ealing 219 148
East Cambridgeshire 94 77
East Devon 144 127
East Hampshire 122 99
East Hertfordshire 158 145
East Lindsey 113 133
East Riding of Yorkshire 211 384
East Staffordshire 62 106
East Suffolk 210 255
East Sussex 636 521
Eastbourne 127 93
Eastleigh 126 137
Eden 43 53
Elmbridge 185 118
Enfield 187 155
Epping Forest 153 109
Epsom and Ewell 85 75
Erewash 93 163
Essex 1,461 1,493
Exeter 103 86
Fareham 104 116
Fenland 83 96
Folkestone and Hythe 140 96
Forest of Dean 55 70
Fylde 83 75
Gateshead 87 149
Gedling 77 133
Gloucester 106 155
Gloucestershire 557 653
Gosport 56 74
Gravesham 77 66
Great Yarmouth 77 117
Greenwich 211 131
Guildford 119 110
Hackney 150 128
Halton 47 107
Hambleton 71 112
Hammersmith and Fulham 143 103
Hampshire 1,245 1,257
Harborough 97 144
Haringey 164 112
Harlow 59 87
Harrogate 194 155
Harrow 148 122
Hart 84 85
Hartlepool 43 95
Hastings 98 76
Havant 121 83
Havering 258 239
Herefordshire 155 149
Hertfordshire 1,112 922
Hertsmere 86 69
High Peak 72 91
Hillingdon 221 131
Hinckley and Bosworth 105 128
Horsham 152 143
Hounslow 175 92
Huntingdonshire 137 188
Hyndburn 29 76
Ipswich 104 116
Isle of Wight 144 164
Islington 165 69
Kensington and Chelsea 136 63
Kent 1,496 1,412
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk 119 132
Kingston upon Thames 150 88
Kirklees 246 390
Knowsley 60 136
Lambeth 315 175
Lancashire 795 1,151
Lancaster 87 123
Leeds 532 758
Leicester 113 140
Leicestershire 568 828
Lewes 114 70
Lewisham 201 174
Lichfield 79 95
Lincoln 55 88
Lincolnshire 599 694
Liverpool 212 349
Luton 112 117
Maidstone 174 142
Maldon 77 65
Malvern Hills 59 63
Manchester 192 371
Mansfield 58 115
Medway 232 246
Melton 38 49
Mendip 105 113
Merton 188 136
Mid Devon 75 71
Mid Suffolk 90 87
Mid Sussex 155 143
Middlesbrough 67 105
Milton Keynes 190 233
Mole Valley 98 72
New Forest 200 165
Newark and Sherwood 95 127
Newcastle upon Tyne 179 229
Newcastle-under-Lyme 68 101
Newham 139 102
Norfolk 742 890
North Devon 90 84
North East Derbyshire 67 113
North East Lincolnshire 116 161
North Hertfordshire 134 122
North Kesteven 100 106
North Lincolnshire 73 179
North Norfolk 110 126
North Northamptonshire 227 355
North Somerset 229 188
North Tyneside 141 232
North Warwickshire 50 50
North West Leicestershire 94 124
North Yorkshire 541 664
Northumberland 258 330
Norwich 88 108
Nottinghamshire 588 908
Nuneaton and Bedworth 84 110
Oadby and Wigston 41 64
Oldham 99 142
Oxford 86 67
Oxfordshire 608 556
Pendle 67 68
Portsmouth 140 172
Preston 56 124
Reading 129 120
Redbridge 204 143
Redcar and Cleveland 83 140
Redditch 36 78
Reigate and Banstead 157 138
Ribble Valley 56 72
Richmond upon Thames 224 119
Richmondshire 30 45
Rochdale 102 139
Rochford 75 80
Rossendale 52 72
Rother 116 108
Rotherham 125 211
Rugby 103 139
Runnymede 95 61
Rushcliffe 115 130
Rushmoor 77 77
Rutland 30 32
Ryedale 41 62
Salford 123 187
Sandwell 122 165
Scarborough 90 142
Sedgemoor 113 126
Sefton 177 273
Selby 55 80
Sevenoaks 129 112
Sheffield 226 424
Shropshire 234 323
Slough 78 71
Solihull 207 162
Somerset 482 590
Somerset West and Taunton 137 146
South Cambridgeshire 123 139
South Derbyshire 63 141
South Gloucestershire 208 257
South Hams 134 102
South Holland 93 96
South Kesteven 141 138
South Lakeland 101 125
South Norfolk 134 154
South Oxfordshire 157 122
South Ribble 78 143
South Somerset 127 205
South Staffordshire 63 109
South Tyneside 97 117
Southampton 135 158
Southend-on-Sea 178 149
Southwark 197 147
Spelthorne 102 74
St Albans 164 111
St Helens 98 145
Stafford 79 128
Staffordshire 527 835
Staffordshire Moorlands 63 105
Stevenage 65 75
Stockport 250 262
Stockton-on-Tees 80 182
Stoke-on-Trent 103 192
Stratford-on-Avon 123 132
Stroud 117 109
Suffolk 607 745
Sunderland 123 210
Surrey 1,241 965
Surrey Heath 88 64
Sutton 177 152
Swale 118 149
Swindon 198 193
Tameside 134 166
Tamworth 43 62
Tandridge 96 62
Teignbridge 104 149
Telford and Wrekin 89 159
Tendring 171 174
Test Valley 123 124
Tewkesbury 82 100
Thanet 156 121
Three Rivers 95 57
Thurrock 130 134
Tonbridge and Malling 131 119
Torbay 151 154
Torridge 55 78
Tower Hamlets 183 195
Trafford 219 208
Tunbridge Wells 131 127
Uttlesford 102 90
Vale of White Horse 128 136
Wakefield 220 340
Walsall 123 194
Waltham Forest 205 156
Wandsworth 356 214
Warrington 163 209
Warwick 131 136
Warwickshire 491 567
Watford 81 66
Waverley 124 123
Wealden 181 174
Welwyn Hatfield 86 74
West Berkshire 159 142
West Devon 47 51
West Lancashire 74 89
West Lindsey 62 87
West Northamptonshire 317 415
West Oxfordshire 98 104
West Suffolk 115 182
West Sussex 924 819
Wigan 154 391
Wiltshire 424 467
Winchester 104 136
Windsor and Maidenhead 177 106
Wirral 206 312
Woking 92 68
Wokingham 183 158
Wolverhampton 94 169
Worcester 70 96
Worcestershire 390 550
Worthing 115 122
Wychavon 97 140
Wyre 79 123
Wyre Forest 56 81
York 154 182
England 41,232 46,664

Note: The number of property transactions for June 2021 will increase as more transactions are incorporated into the index. See our Revisions Policy for more information.

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for June 2020 with the provisional estimate for June 2021, volume transactions increased by 5.3% 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 increased by 220.7% in England in the year to June 2021.

4.2 Sales volumes by London borough

Sales volumes by London borough

London borough June 2021 June 2020
Barking and Dagenham 99 96
Barnet 275 179
Bexley 203 200
Brent 122 75
Bromley 362 269
Camden 155 77
City of London 13 3
City of Westminster 179 87
Croydon 323 231
Ealing 219 148
Enfield 187 155
Greenwich 211 131
Hackney 150 128
Hammersmith and Fulham 143 103
Haringey 164 112
Harrow 148 122
Havering 258 239
Hillingdon 221 131
Hounslow 175 92
Islington 165 69
Kensington and Chelsea 136 63
Kingston upon Thames 150 88
Lambeth 315 175
Lewisham 201 174
Merton 188 136
Newham 139 102
Redbridge 204 143
Richmond upon Thames 224 119
Southwark 197 147
Sutton 177 152
Tower Hamlets 183 195
Waltham Forest 205 156
Wandsworth 356 214

Note: The number of property transactions for June 2021 will increase as more transactions are incorporated into the index. See our Revisions Policy for more information.

4.3 Sales volumes for England

Sales volumes for England over the past five years

Date Sales volumes for England
June 2017 84,327
June 2018 79,056
June 2019 69,001
June 2020 46,664
June 2021 41,232

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for June 2020 with the provisional estimate for June 2021, volume transactions increased by 5.3% 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 increased by 220.7% in England in the year to June 2021.

4.4 Sales volumes for London

Sales volumes for London over the past 5 years

Date Sales volumes for London
June 2017 9,192
June 2018 8,135
June 2019 6,991
June 2020 4,511
June 2021 6,447

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 June 2021 Average existing June 2021 New build monthly change Existing monthly change New build annual change Existing annual change
London £533,642 £505,296 2.8% 2.9% 12.1% 4.6%
North East £227,928 £142,076 6.1% 5.5% 23.0% 13.1%
East Midlands £317,719 £217,124 4.1% 4.4% 21.6% 11.7%
East of England £422,076 £316,970 3.2% 4.0% 19.1% 10.0%
North West £280,026 £194,215 6.6% 6.8% 26.4% 16.8%
South East £440,152 £354,513 3.6% 3.8% 20.0% 10.7%
South West £363,869 £289,956 4.8% 5.4% 21.9% 12.7%
West Midlands £325,306 £225,022 5.1% 5.7% 23.3% 13.5%
Yorkshire and The Humber £257,168 £190,267 5.7% 6.6% 24.1% 14.8%
England £364,672 £277,694 4.5% 5.0% 20.9% 11.9%

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 August 2021 Average former owner occupier price August 2021 First time buyer monthly change Former owner occupier monthly change First time buyer annual change Former owner occupier annual change
London £455,377 £601,844 5.2% 6.0% 7.0% 8.0%
North East £126,661 £171,464 1.9% 2.9% 12.5% 14.2%
East Midlands £185,759 £251,307 2.3% 3.0% 10.0% 10.7%
East of England £267,311 £369,261 2.0% 3.6% 9.0% 10.1%
North West £163,219 £222,594 3.8% 5.3% 11.9% 12.9%
South East £282,188 £420,359 0.9% 2.8% 7.8% 9.5%
South West £234,911 £328,740 3.1% 5.1% 7.9% 9.7%
West Midlands £189,007 £264,347 2.2% 3.5% 10.3% 11.7%
Yorkshire and The Humber £158,337 £210,726 1.1% 1.9% 8.2% 9.3%
England £233,267 £322,045 2.5% 3.8% 9.2% 10.5%

7. Funding status

Cash and mortgage indicator for England by region

Region Average cash price August 2021 Average mortgage price August 2021 Cash monthly change Mortgage monthly change Cash annual change Mortgage annual change
London £536,299 £521,423 4.9% 5.7% 5.1% 8.0%
North East £135,395 £156,756 1.8% 2.7% 12.4% 13.7%
East Midlands £212,224 £226,168 2.9% 2.6% 9.9% 10.5%
East of England £306,964 £332,977 2.9% 2.9% 9.3% 9.7%
North West £177,184 £204,091 4.3% 4.6% 11.7% 12.7%
South East £342,000 £366,085 1.8% 1.9% 8.8% 8.6%
South West £283,894 £291,541 4.5% 4.0% 8.7% 8.9%
West Midlands £217,365 £233,667 2.8% 2.9% 10.7% 11.1%
Yorkshire and The Humber £176,853 £190,481 1.2% 1.7% 8.0% 9.0%
England £262,317 £290,089 3.0% 3.2% 9.4% 10.0%

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 2 months are not yet complete, so they are not included in the report.

Repossession sales volumes by government office region

Region Sales volume June 2021
East Midlands 6
East of England 4
London 27
North East 24
North West 24
South East 15
South West 13
West Midlands 5
Yorkshire and The Humber 10
England 128

9. Access the data

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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