National statistics

UK House Price Index England: February 2021

Published 21 April 2021

Applies to England

1. Headline statistics for February 2021

The average price of a property in England was £268,291

The annual price change of a property in England was 8.7%

The monthly price change of a property in England was 0.2%

The index figure for England (January 2015 = 100) was 132.3

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 March 2021 UK HPI will be published at 9.30am on Wednesday 19 May 2021. See the calendar of release dates for more information.

2. Economic statement

England house prices grew by 8.7% in the year to February 2021, up from 8.0% in January 2021. England house prices were growing faster than the UK rate of 8.6% in the year to February 2021. The North West was the fastest growing region with annual growth of 11.9% in the year to February 2021. The lowest annual growth was in London, where prices increased by 4.6% over the year to February 2021.

On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, average house prices in England increased by 0.2% between January and February 2021, compared with a decrease of 0.5% during the same period a year earlier (January and February 2020). On a seasonally adjusted basis, average house prices in England increased by 0.4% between January and February 2021.

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for December 2019 with the provisional estimate for December 2020, volume transactions increased by 16.2% in England. UK volume transactions increased by 18.3% 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 28.9% in England in the year to December 2020.

Across England, detached and semi-detached houses showed the biggest increase out of all property types, both growing by 9.2% in the year to February 2021 to £410,000 and £254,000 respectively. The lowest annual change was in flats and maisonettes which increased by 6.8% in the year to February 2021 to £236,000.

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 8.7% in the year to February 2021, up from 8.0% in January 2021.

In London, average house prices increased by 4.6% in the year to February 2021, down from an increase of 5.7% in January 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.

Local authorities February 2021 February 2020 Difference
Adur £336,026 £306,644 9.6%
Allerdale £165,034 £151,916 8.6%
Amber Valley £191,153 £175,564 8.9%
Arun £302,073 £281,918 7.1%
Ashfield £162,984 £146,312 11.4%
Ashford £309,443 £297,484 4.0%
Babergh £296,470 £290,968 1.9%
Barking and Dagenham £323,954 £303,090 6.9%
Barnet £531,887 £517,312 2.8%
Barnsley £147,536 £125,406 17.6%
Barrow-in-Furness £127,734 £119,692 6.7%
Basildon £334,523 £311,631 7.3%
Basingstoke and Deane £309,144 £300,844 2.8%
Bassetlaw £166,539 £162,284 2.6%
Bath and North East Somerset £393,883 £331,952 18.7%
Bedford £302,732 £283,160 6.9%
Bexley £363,412 £338,872 7.2%
Birmingham £199,053 £188,687 5.5%
Blaby £250,057 £232,489 7.6%
Blackburn with Darwen £122,264 £114,675 6.6%
Blackpool £114,869 £108,639 5.7%
Bolsover £148,834 £132,148 12.6%
Bolton £154,757 £139,775 10.7%
Boston £164,884 £154,094 7.0%
Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole £299,505 £279,567 7.1%
Bracknell Forest £338,738 £334,722 1.2%
Bradford £152,526 £135,461 12.6%
Braintree £294,544 £282,769 4.2%
Breckland £247,479 £223,801 10.6%
Brent £502,264 £467,924 7.3%
Brentwood £445,723 £417,545 6.7%
Brighton and Hove £400,636 £360,279 11.2%
Broadland £284,946 £262,813 8.4%
Bromley £464,868 £432,856 7.4%
Bromsgrove £323,712 £291,535 11.0%
Broxbourne £363,282 £340,158 6.8%
Broxtowe £205,522 £192,074 7.0%
Buckinghamshire £419,428 £397,057 5.6%
Burnley £95,372 £86,748 9.9%
Bury £203,875 £182,862 11.5%
Calderdale £156,932 £147,124 6.7%
Cambridge £474,824 £443,943 7.0%
Cambridgeshire £312,004 £294,723 5.9%
Camden £822,936 £815,710 0.9%
Cannock Chase £197,230 £173,481 13.7%
Canterbury £323,285 £298,471 8.3%
Carlisle £137,459 £133,668 2.8%
Castle Point £321,693 £307,061 4.8%
Central Bedfordshire £312,497 £303,304 3.0%
Charnwood £242,829 £224,941 8.0%
Chelmsford £347,466 £333,033 4.3%
Cheltenham £304,949 £271,866 12.2%
Cherwell £305,406 £287,574 6.2%
Cheshire East £253,458 £226,156 12.1%
Cheshire West and Chester £233,241 £207,751 12.3%
Chesterfield £175,672 £159,830 9.9%
Chichester £405,167 £375,828 7.8%
Chorley £202,414 £177,950 13.7%
City of Bristol £316,177 £283,290 11.6%
City of Derby £176,074 £161,542 9.0%
City of Kingston upon Hull £114,717 £113,286 1.3%
City of London £675,309 £799,600 -15.5%
City of Nottingham £168,005 £147,916 13.6%
City of Peterborough £202,692 £196,022 3.4%
City of Plymouth £183,986 £179,852 2.3%
City of Westminster £1,000,560 £1,013,361 -1.3%
Colchester £277,935 £258,817 7.4%
Copeland £142,211 £120,714 17.8%
Corby £203,797 £185,207 10.0%
Cornwall £263,014 £234,198 12.3%
Cotswold £404,108 £379,217 6.6%
County Durham £112,722 £101,170 11.4%
Coventry £200,617 £187,436 7.0%
Craven £237,108 £217,827 8.9%
Crawley £289,533 £281,160 3.0%
Croydon £395,363 £372,458 6.1%
Cumbria £171,282 £155,718 10.0%
Dacorum £421,714 £403,184 4.6%
Darlington £130,536 £127,683 2.2%
Dartford £314,801 £296,705 6.1%
Daventry £286,564 £262,859 9.0%
Derbyshire £200,766 £180,584 11.2%
Derbyshire Dales £293,736 £264,555 11.0%
Devon £283,514 £260,753 8.7%
Doncaster £142,297 £130,998 8.6%
Dorset £310,141 £290,887 6.6%
Dover £268,862 £245,327 9.6%
Dudley £197,720 £179,523 10.1%
Ealing £520,674 £467,466 11.4%
East Cambridgeshire £312,424 £283,994 10.0%
East Devon £317,831 £287,084 10.7%
East Hampshire £392,375 £370,571 5.9%
East Hertfordshire £417,220 £386,027 8.1%
East Lindsey £186,562 £171,842 8.6%
East Northamptonshire £252,354 £245,421 2.8%
East Riding of Yorkshire £200,768 £180,011 11.5%
East Staffordshire £200,034 £188,063 6.4%
East Suffolk £259,899 £242,324 7.3%
East Sussex £308,870 £278,633 10.9%
Eastbourne £247,773 £241,218 2.7%
Eastleigh £300,430 £284,998 5.4%
Eden £219,069 £189,222 15.8%
Elmbridge £615,238 £587,758 4.7%
Enfield £404,689 £390,173 3.7%
Epping Forest £465,459 £450,275 3.4%
Epsom and Ewell £485,861 £460,542 5.5%
Erewash £194,720 £164,969 18.0%
Essex £327,278 £308,800 6.0%
Exeter £263,101 £259,375 1.4%
Fareham £307,640 £293,441 4.8%
Fenland £203,652 £186,758 9.0%
Folkestone and Hythe £265,404 £264,345 0.4%
Forest of Dean £279,981 £240,087 16.6%
Fylde £188,095 £183,075 2.7%
Gateshead £142,214 £129,162 10.1%
Gedling £212,962 £191,029 11.5%
Gloucester £218,476 £203,083 7.6%
Gloucestershire £292,338 £265,822 10.0%
Gosport £229,539 £209,123 9.8%
Gravesham £298,999 £278,871 7.2%
Great Yarmouth £188,096 £171,671 9.6%
Greenwich £421,221 £397,416 6.0%
Guildford £490,285 £447,296 9.6%
Hackney £585,760 £569,915 2.8%
Halton £159,401 £142,588 11.8%
Hambleton £258,673 £232,687 11.2%
Hammersmith and Fulham £659,865 £736,873 -10.5%
Hampshire £332,226 £312,851 6.2%
Harborough £326,849 £294,874 10.8%
Haringey £567,352 £540,645 4.9%
Harlow £276,780 £267,595 3.4%
Harrogate £297,867 £290,769 2.4%
Harrow £473,337 £450,310 5.1%
Hart £430,577 £408,078 5.5%
Hartlepool £115,438 £109,309 5.6%
Hastings £240,319 £216,230 11.1%
Havant £277,569 £262,584 5.7%
Havering £378,213 £363,398 4.1%
Herefordshire £253,882 £239,040 6.2%
Hertfordshire £419,029 £394,949 6.1%
Hertsmere £479,641 £452,529 6.0%
High Peak £220,044 £200,685 9.6%
Hillingdon £435,757 £403,613 8.0%
Hinckley and Bosworth £244,886 £217,851 12.4%
Horsham £390,425 £376,458 3.7%
Hounslow £431,049 £412,152 4.6%
Huntingdonshire £267,504 £260,034 2.9%
Hyndburn £92,173 £98,961 -6.9%
Ipswich £207,078 £194,601 6.4%
Isle of Wight £240,746 £222,899 8.0%
Islington £700,791 £668,759 4.8%
Kensington and Chelsea £1,220,511 £1,318,987 -7.5%
Kent £314,268 £291,909 7.7%
Kettering £206,324 £203,218 1.5%
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk £236,251 £216,162 9.3%
Kingston upon Thames £505,421 £485,528 4.1%
Kirklees £174,538 £153,839 13.5%
Knowsley £143,170 £132,021 8.4%
Lambeth £530,527 £518,259 2.4%
Lancashire £157,540 £146,111 7.8%
Lancaster £176,602 £154,034 14.7%
Leeds £207,238 £188,671 9.8%
Leicester £206,755 £181,625 13.8%
Leicestershire £251,776 £231,114 8.9%
Lewes £343,524 £316,889 8.4%
Lewisham £457,419 £412,802 10.8%
Lichfield £285,989 £255,990 11.7%
Lincoln £159,693 £153,654 3.9%
Lincolnshire £196,375 £183,754 6.9%
Liverpool £152,974 £130,088 17.6%
Luton £242,370 £230,944 4.9%
Maidstone £303,263 £283,992 6.8%
Maldon £345,611 £335,760 2.9%
Malvern Hills £292,974 £274,296 6.8%
Manchester £199,235 £178,840 11.4%
Mansfield £156,964 £139,916 12.2%
Medway £255,775 £236,429 8.2%
Melton £251,339 £224,014 12.2%
Mendip £291,452 £260,219 12.0%
Merton £567,098 £500,669 13.3%
Mid Devon £258,175 £235,464 9.6%
Mid Suffolk £284,272 £260,690 9.0%
Mid Sussex £400,293 £366,628 9.2%
Middlesbrough £126,079 £112,362 12.2%
Milton Keynes £273,116 £257,606 6.0%
Mole Valley £499,798 £476,860 4.8%
New Forest £366,687 £334,733 9.5%
Newark and Sherwood £219,918 £181,950 20.9%
Newcastle upon Tyne £167,964 £155,544 8.0%
Newcastle-under-Lyme £178,333 £159,142 12.1%
Newham £410,288 £371,245 10.5%
Norfolk £247,840 £228,550 8.4%
North Devon £270,374 £246,012 9.9%
North East Derbyshire £219,482 £194,312 13.0%
North East Lincolnshire £131,522 £123,629 6.4%
North Hertfordshire £366,562 £344,673 6.4%
North Kesteven £228,569 £212,005 7.8%
North Lincolnshire £159,672 £147,311 8.4%
North Norfolk £282,123 £257,370 9.6%
North Somerset £285,798 £265,547 7.6%
North Tyneside £175,829 £161,262 9.0%
North Warwickshire £244,697 £205,180 19.3%
North West Leicestershire £229,571 £208,928 9.9%
North Yorkshire £242,592 £222,116 9.2%
Northampton £228,706 £211,008 8.4%
Northamptonshire £242,737 £227,328 6.8%
Northumberland £171,421 £153,159 11.9%
Norwich £210,793 £205,068 2.8%
Nottinghamshire £201,729 £181,607 11.1%
Nuneaton and Bedworth £194,116 £178,677 8.6%
Oadby and Wigston £221,904 £224,905 -1.3%
Oldham £163,122 £142,217 14.7%
Oxford £435,372 £406,934 7.0%
Oxfordshire £370,612 £351,254 5.5%
Pendle £123,883 £106,383 16.4%
Portsmouth £223,313 £213,640 4.5%
Preston £136,220 £128,013 6.4%
Reading £305,754 £286,947 6.6%
Redbridge £456,098 £417,246 9.3%
Redcar and Cleveland £145,198 £122,256 18.8%
Redditch £223,963 £209,269 7.0%
Reigate and Banstead £440,698 £402,660 9.4%
Ribble Valley £226,954 £216,968 4.6%
Richmond upon Thames £686,620 £656,740 4.5%
Richmondshire £241,999 £204,653 18.2%
Rochdale £150,053 £142,283 5.5%
Rochford £362,097 £343,798 5.3%
Rossendale £166,616 £142,716 16.7%
Rother £341,200 £296,460 15.1%
Rotherham £150,453 £143,505 4.8%
Rugby £247,541 £233,066 6.2%
Runnymede £427,472 £415,034 3.0%
Rushcliffe £317,830 £282,740 12.4%
Rushmoor £298,772 £277,905 7.5%
Rutland £330,463 £315,289 4.8%
Ryedale £236,857 £232,949 1.7%
Salford £186,601 £169,288 10.2%
Sandwell £162,393 £156,027 4.1%
Scarborough £181,870 £169,287 7.4%
Sedgemoor £248,955 £229,423 8.5%
Sefton £184,482 £165,044 11.8%
Selby £242,022 £196,051 23.4%
Sevenoaks £446,060 £437,129 2.0%
Sheffield £191,303 £171,310 11.7%
Shropshire £233,947 £216,472 8.1%
Slough £308,428 £292,415 5.5%
Solihull £293,229 £275,663 6.4%
Somerset £260,758 £237,042 10.0%
Somerset West and Taunton £256,302 £235,826 8.7%
South Cambridgeshire £401,764 £382,117 5.1%
South Derbyshire £208,766 £193,789 7.7%
South Gloucestershire £297,006 £277,238 7.1%
South Hams £349,414 £305,075 14.5%
South Holland £199,422 £188,378 5.9%
South Kesteven £222,524 £212,817 4.6%
South Lakeland £273,592 £240,059 14.0%
South Norfolk £290,292 £265,747 9.2%
South Northamptonshire £331,060 £315,813 4.8%
South Oxfordshire £439,453 £409,914 7.2%
South Ribble £182,140 £169,679 7.3%
South Somerset £255,102 £229,674 11.1%
South Staffordshire £259,408 £229,884 12.8%
South Tyneside £133,475 £132,849 0.5%
Southampton £223,503 £207,362 7.8%
Southend-on-Sea £309,102 £286,443 7.9%
Southwark £545,091 £496,382 9.8%
Spelthorne £381,852 £365,087 4.6%
St Albans £554,595 £509,661 8.8%
St Helens £143,760 £133,375 7.8%
Stafford £227,128 £205,538 10.5%
Staffordshire £216,975 £195,510 11.0%
Staffordshire Moorlands £209,675 £182,483 14.9%
Stevenage £280,258 £279,206 0.4%
Stockport £256,275 £234,115 9.5%
Stockton-on-Tees £142,408 £132,913 7.1%
Stoke-on-Trent £124,839 £113,025 10.5%
Stratford-on-Avon £345,299 £313,217 10.2%
Stroud £311,524 £281,571 10.6%
Suffolk £259,482 £243,183 6.7%
Sunderland £123,485 £116,582 5.9%
Surrey £471,975 £439,525 7.4%
Surrey Heath £432,418 £382,663 13.0%
Sutton £416,499 £372,934 11.7%
Swale £286,398 £242,835 17.9%
Swindon £224,382 £213,170 5.3%
Tameside £167,623 £154,287 8.6%
Tamworth £205,614 £189,199 8.7%
Tandridge £489,702 £452,683 8.2%
Teignbridge £269,534 £244,182 10.4%
Telford and Wrekin £176,747 £171,499 3.1%
Tendring £239,036 £214,246 11.6%
Test Valley £342,308 £330,729 3.5%
Tewkesbury £295,272 £271,900 8.6%
Thanet £269,574 £233,160 15.6%
Three Rivers £530,857 £509,559 4.2%
Thurrock £282,450 £266,787 5.9%
Tonbridge and Malling £380,828 £362,027 5.2%
Torbay £212,616 £202,944 4.8%
Torridge £247,183 £233,930 5.7%
Tower Hamlets £455,633 £473,806 -3.8%
Trafford £328,188 £290,928 12.8%
Tunbridge Wells £407,539 £382,339 6.6%
Uttlesford £409,267 £389,385 5.1%
Vale of White Horse £365,852 £358,957 1.9%
Wakefield £165,688 £150,705 9.9%
Walsall £176,956 £167,903 5.4%
Waltham Forest £474,848 £436,371 8.8%
Wandsworth £617,220 £609,965 1.2%
Warrington £222,395 £194,387 14.4%
Warwick £326,800 £307,032 6.4%
Warwickshire £272,654 £250,616 8.8%
Watford £366,699 £345,630 6.1%
Waverley £501,563 £439,570 14.1%
Wealden £377,565 £327,817 15.2%
Wellingborough £239,802 £211,436 13.4%
Welwyn Hatfield £415,435 £390,958 6.3%
West Berkshire £372,063 £344,701 7.9%
West Devon £278,034 £265,285 4.8%
West Lancashire £195,254 £182,901 6.8%
West Lindsey £190,097 £171,733 10.7%
West Oxfordshire £332,934 £314,913 5.7%
West Suffolk £272,959 £254,566 7.2%
West Sussex £340,781 £321,134 6.1%
Wigan £152,039 £136,778 11.2%
Wiltshire £286,958 £269,765 6.4%
Winchester £453,658 £408,691 11.0%
Windsor and Maidenhead £524,607 £468,292 12.0%
Wirral £193,319 £158,017 22.3%
Woking £420,792 £412,759 1.9%
Wokingham £416,164 £405,549 2.6%
Wolverhampton £174,473 £159,337 9.5%
Worcester £227,277 £214,092 6.2%
Worcestershire £257,987 £242,003 6.6%
Worthing £285,649 £275,769 3.6%
Wychavon £283,751 £272,183 4.3%
Wyre £162,298 £156,602 3.6%
Wyre Forest £211,503 £199,535 6.0%
York £273,341 £256,523 6.6%
England £268,291 £246,739 8.7%

Average price by local authority for England

In February 2021, the most expensive area to purchase a property was Kensington and Chelsea, where the average cost was £1.2 million. In contrast, the cheapest area to purchase a property was Hyndburn, where the average cost was £92,000.

3.2 Annual price change by London borough

Annual price change by London borough

London borough February 2021 February 2020 Difference
Barking and Dagenham £323,954 £303,090 6.9%
Barnet £531,887 £517,312 2.8%
Bexley £363,412 £338,872 7.2%
Brent £502,264 £467,924 7.3%
Bromley £464,868 £432,856 7.4%
Camden £822,936 £815,710 0.9%
City of London £675,309 £799,600 -15.5%
City of Westminster £1,000,560 £1,013,361 -1.3%
Croydon £395,363 £372,458 6.1%
Ealing £520,674 £467,466 11.4%
Enfield £404,689 £390,173 3.7%
Greenwich £421,221 £397,416 6.0%
Hackney £585,760 £569,915 2.8%
Hammersmith and Fulham £659,865 £736,873 -10.5%
Haringey £567,352 £540,645 4.9%
Harrow £473,337 £450,310 5.1%
Havering £378,213 £363,398 4.1%
Hillingdon £435,757 £403,613 8.0%
Hounslow £431,049 £412,152 4.6%
Islington £700,791 £668,759 4.8%
Kensington and Chelsea £1,220,511 £1,318,987 -7.5%
Kingston upon Thames £505,421 £485,528 4.1%
Lambeth £530,527 £518,259 2.4%
Lewisham £457,419 £412,802 10.8%
Merton £567,098 £500,669 13.3%
Newham £410,288 £371,245 10.5%
Redbridge £456,098 £417,246 9.3%
Richmond upon Thames £686,620 £656,740 4.5%
Southwark £545,091 £496,382 9.8%
Sutton £416,499 £372,934 11.7%
Tower Hamlets £455,633 £473,806 -3.8%
Waltham Forest £474,848 £436,371 8.8%
Wandsworth £617,220 £609,965 1.2%

Average price by London borough

In February 2021, the most expensive borough to purchase a property was Kensington and Chelsea, where the average cost was £1.2 million. In contrast, the cheapest borough to purchase a property was Barking and Dagenham, where the average cost was £324,000.

3.3 Average price change by property type

Average price change by property type for England

Property type February 2021 February 2020 Difference
Detached £409,868 £375,328 9.2%
Semi-detached £253,633 £232,287 9.2%
Terraced £219,032 £200,753 9.1%
Flat or maisonette £236,375 £221,254 6.8%
All £268,291 £246,739 8.7%

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 December 2020 December 2019
Adur 97 90
Allerdale 135 130
Amber Valley 161 173
Arun 275 258
Ashfield 144 159
Ashford 176 175
Babergh 146 115
Barking and Dagenham 123 115
Barnet 312 268
Barnsley 315 355
Barrow-in-Furness 91 110
Basildon 201 207
Basingstoke and Deane 276 245
Bassetlaw 165 181
Bath and North East Somerset 233 248
Bedford 232 258
Bexley 281 244
Birmingham 918 1,062
Blaby 180 146
Blackburn with Darwen 180 185
Blackpool 176 181
Bolsover 89 115
Bolton 348 300
Boston 84 79
Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole 697 559
Bracknell Forest 183 252
Bradford 604 592
Braintree 240 212
Breckland 203 229
Brent 158 141
Brentwood 121 85
Brighton and Hove 406 340
Broadland 220 213
Bromley 475 376
Bromsgrove 163 130
Broxbourne 116 95
Broxtowe 160 139
Buckinghamshire 794 773
Burnley 133 141
Bury 231 221
Calderdale 303 265
Cambridge 109 111
Cambridgeshire 851 887
Camden 138 143
Cannock Chase 131 151
Canterbury 280 209
Carlisle 177 168
Castle Point 119 125
Central Bedfordshire 443 543
Charnwood 261 246
Chelmsford 254 218
Cheltenham 197 170
Cherwell 190 292
Cheshire East 623 763
Cheshire West and Chester 506 497
Chesterfield 116 127
Chichester 189 187
Chorley 196 186
City of Bristol 561 543
City of Derby 241 292
City of Kingston upon Hull 229 276
City of London 7 16
City of Nottingham 263 292
City of Peterborough 226 286
City of Plymouth 348 347
City of Westminster 163 242
Colchester 290 271
Copeland 105 62
Corby 87 92
Cornwall 1,002 936
Cotswold 198 116
County Durham 702 657
Coventry 339 374
Craven 108 102
Crawley 105 136
Croydon 346 340
Cumbria 809 687
Dacorum 194 170
Darlington 172 171
Dartford 150 215
Daventry 126 139
Derbyshire 1,087 1,215
Derbyshire Dales 134 125
Devon 1,544 1,373
Doncaster 358 453
Dorset 726 571
Dover 193 179
Dudley 323 370
Ealing 202 188
East Cambridgeshire 119 99
East Devon 295 306
East Hampshire 188 229
East Hertfordshire 228 218
East Lindsey 233 197
East Northamptonshire 166 140
East Riding of Yorkshire 578 599
East Staffordshire 132 167
East Suffolk 373 327
East Sussex 991 866
Eastbourne 167 171
Eastleigh 222 232
Eden 85 82
Elmbridge 245 158
Enfield 239 198
Epping Forest 177 138
Epsom and Ewell 110 82
Erewash 163 162
Essex 2,184 1,971
Exeter 210 196
Fareham 230 163
Fenland 150 158
Folkestone and Hythe 165 127
Forest of Dean 98 118
Fylde 136 153
Gateshead 219 185
Gedling 190 178
Gloucester 193 189
Gloucestershire 1,047 961
Gosport 96 104
Gravesham 114 110
Great Yarmouth 130 180
Greenwich 245 296
Guildford 187 144
Hackney 127 289
Halton 106 132
Hambleton 128 172
Hammersmith and Fulham 161 164
Hampshire 2,176 2,142
Harborough 150 198
Haringey 198 179
Harlow 95 129
Harrogate 241 256
Harrow 145 186
Hart 190 164
Hartlepool 119 94
Hastings 166 134
Havant 184 164
Havering 324 268
Herefordshire 278 247
Hertfordshire 1,560 1,318
Hertsmere 137 93
High Peak 151 131
Hillingdon 263 240
Hinckley and Bosworth 169 157
Horsham 261 233
Hounslow 180 177
Huntingdonshire 262 261
Hyndburn 112 109
Ipswich 180 163
Isle of Wight 269 234
Islington 145 124
Kensington and Chelsea 121 125
Kent 2,295 2,014
Kettering 144 181
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk 220 232
Kingston upon Thames 195 178
Kirklees 590 537
Knowsley 141 209
Lambeth 344 277
Lancashire 1,773 1,734
Lancaster 204 182
Leeds 926 1,015
Leicester 208 236
Leicestershire 1,038 1,082
Lewes 176 130
Lewisham 324 227
Lichfield 147 158
Lincoln 107 111
Lincolnshire 1,093 1,112
Liverpool 442 625
Luton 161 177
Maidstone 254 225
Maldon 127 107
Malvern Hills 118 118
Manchester 422 449
Mansfield 147 163
Medway 326 324
Melton 79 78
Mendip 204 159
Merton 212 168
Mid Devon 143 134
Mid Suffolk 154 170
Mid Sussex 251 276
Middlesbrough 159 217
Milton Keynes 320 484
Mole Valley 146 116
New Forest 331 239
Newark and Sherwood 212 167
Newcastle upon Tyne 322 401
Newcastle-under-Lyme 159 177
Newham 154 146
Norfolk 1,360 1,523
North Devon 200 163
North East Derbyshire 131 149
North East Lincolnshire 211 223
North Hertfordshire 226 181
North Kesteven 183 212
North Lincolnshire 212 193
North Norfolk 216 196
North Somerset 358 312
North Tyneside 286 284
North Warwickshire 91 85
North West Leicestershire 131 191
North Yorkshire 974 1,039
Northampton 269 289
Northamptonshire 1,060 1,087
Northumberland 426 478
Norwich 179 176
Nottinghamshire 1,231 1,159
Nuneaton and Bedworth 180 225
Oadby and Wigston 68 66
Oldham 274 314
Oxford 106 93
Oxfordshire 941 962
Pendle 108 139
Portsmouth 280 227
Preston 152 156
Reading 171 139
Redbridge 178 193
Redcar and Cleveland 174 191
Redditch 102 133
Reigate and Banstead 242 216
Ribble Valley 114 112
Richmond upon Thames 279 216
Richmondshire 61 57
Rochdale 249 274
Rochford 125 86
Rossendale 95 65
Rother 199 150
Rotherham 333 334
Rugby 153 180
Runnymede 141 128
Rushcliffe 213 172
Rushmoor 101 153
Rutland 76 73
Ryedale 107 92
Salford 264 339
Sandwell 248 240
Scarborough 201 186
Sedgemoor 189 204
Sefton 348 325
Selby 128 174
Sevenoaks 158 133
Sheffield 556 661
Shropshire 488 469
Slough 75 110
Solihull 299 259
Somerset 950 878
Somerset West and Taunton 276 254
South Cambridgeshire 211 258
South Derbyshire 142 233
South Gloucestershire 396 480
South Hams 226 163
South Holland 141 166
South Kesteven 206 200
South Lakeland 216 135
South Norfolk 192 297
South Northamptonshire 157 158
South Oxfordshire 230 215
South Ribble 167 149
South Somerset 281 261
South Staffordshire 135 153
South Tyneside 166 164
Southampton 269 208
Southend-on-Sea 275 216
Southwark 250 272
Spelthorne 160 111
St Albans 219 201
St Helens 195 220
Stafford 208 239
Staffordshire 1,184 1,283
Staffordshire Moorlands 164 113
Stevenage 83 82
Stockport 447 359
Stockton-on-Tees 238 254
Stoke-on-Trent 263 292
Stratford-on-Avon 250 223
Stroud 202 199
Suffolk 1,132 998
Sunderland 283 274
Surrey 1,879 1,462
Surrey Heath 132 142
Sutton 229 209
Swale 202 162
Swindon 321 365
Tameside 294 264
Tamworth 108 125
Tandridge 131 91
Teignbridge 250 210
Telford and Wrekin 234 322
Tendring 286 274
Test Valley 198 262
Tewkesbury 159 169
Thanet 208 174
Three Rivers 113 75
Thurrock 182 190
Tonbridge and Malling 203 143
Torbay 231 212
Torridge 124 115
Tower Hamlets 200 234
Trafford 339 235
Tunbridge Wells 192 162
Uttlesford 149 119
Vale of White Horse 228 201
Wakefield 419 522
Walsall 266 270
Waltham Forest 262 269
Wandsworth 449 399
Warrington 296 281
Warwick 192 209
Warwickshire 866 922
Watford 97 103
Waverley 206 164
Wealden 283 281
Wellingborough 111 88
Welwyn Hatfield 147 100
West Berkshire 236 197
West Devon 96 86
West Lancashire 139 170
West Lindsey 139 147
West Oxfordshire 187 161
West Suffolk 279 223
West Sussex 1,351 1,419
Wigan 400 463
Wiltshire 776 694
Winchester 160 187
Windsor and Maidenhead 210 156
Wirral 453 405
Woking 179 110
Wokingham 235 306
Wolverhampton 203 275
Worcester 128 143
Worcestershire 813 885
Worthing 173 239
Wychavon 175 228
Wyre 217 172
Wyre Forest 127 133
York 288 249
England 71,132 70,541

Note: The number of property transactions for December 2020 will increase as more transactions are incorporated into the index. See our Revisions Policy for more information.

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for December 2019 with the provisional estimate for December 2020, volume transactions increased by 16.2% 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 28.9% in England in the year to December 2020.

4.2 Sales volumes by London borough

Sales volumes by London borough

London borough December 2020 December 2019
Barking and Dagenham 123 115
Barnet 312 268
Bexley 281 244
Brent 158 141
Bromley 475 376
Camden 138 143
City of London 7 16
City of Westminster 163 242
Croydon 346 340
Ealing 202 188
Enfield 239 198
Greenwich 245 296
Hackney 127 289
Hammersmith and Fulham 161 164
Haringey 198 179
Harrow 145 186
Havering 324 268
Hillingdon 263 240
Hounslow 180 177
Islington 145 124
Kensington and Chelsea 121 125
Kingston upon Thames 195 178
Lambeth 344 277
Lewisham 324 227
Merton 212 168
Newham 154 146
Redbridge 178 193
Richmond upon Thames 279 216
Southwark 250 272
Sutton 229 209
Tower Hamlets 200 234
Waltham Forest 262 269
Wandsworth 449 399

Note: The number of property transactions for December 2020 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
December 2016 79,605
December 2017 76,522
December 2018 69,841
December 2019 70,541
December 2020 71,132

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for December 2019 with the provisional estimate for December 2020, volume transactions increased by 16.2% 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 28.9% in England in the year to December 2020.

4.4 Sales volumes for London

Sales volumes for London over the past 5 years

Date Sales volumes for London
December 2016 8,460
December 2017 7,883
December 2018 6,957
December 2019 7,107
December 2020 7,429

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 December 2020 Average existing December 2020 New build monthly change Existing monthly change New build annual change Existing annual change
London £488,371 £502,975 -0.6% 0.1% 2.2% 4.7%
North East £197,909 £135,650 0.4% 1.0% 8.8% 8.1%
East Midlands £276,101 £207,217 0.5% 1.4% 8.4% 9.0%
East of England £368,280 £304,279 0.6% 1.4% 5.6% 6.1%
North West £236,630 £180,218 1.2% 1.7% 10.7% 10.8%
South East £382,538 £339,648 -0.5% 0.5% 5.5% 6.4%
South West £315,018 £276,998 0.0% 1.3% 8.3% 8.9%
West Midlands £279,243 £212,307 0.8% 1.7% 8.2% 8.8%
Yorkshire and The Humber £219,759 £177,608 -0.3% 0.4% 8.8% 8.7%
England £316,962 £264,664 0.2% 1.1% 7.1% 7.9%

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 February 2021 Average former owner occupier price February 2021 First time buyer monthly change Former owner occupier monthly change First time buyer annual change Former owner occupier annual change
London £433,726 £560,746 -0.6% -2.5% 4.8% 4.3%
North East £118,741 £157,542 -1.3% -1.9% 8.8% 9.1%
East Midlands £180,751 £240,797 1.5% 0.1% 10.8% 10.4%
East of England £254,832 £345,610 -0.3% -1.5% 6.1% 5.9%
North West £155,481 £209,149 1.7% 1.0% 11.8% 12.0%
South East £275,860 £400,082 1.6% 0.2% 8.6% 8.3%
South West £229,703 £315,075 0.5% -0.3% 8.9% 9.1%
West Midlands £179,580 £247,164 1.2% 0.5% 8.2% 8.3%
Yorkshire and The Humber £156,133 £205,143 0.9% 0.4% 10.7% 11.0%
England £224,797 £304,863 0.7% -0.3% 8.7% 8.8%

7. Funding status

Cash and mortgage indicator for England by region

Region Average cash price February 2021 Average mortgage price February 2021 Cash monthly change Mortgage monthly change Cash annual change Mortgage annual change
London £508,518 £491,521 -2.4% -1.2% 2.4% 5.1%
North East £127,747 £144,478 -1.0% -1.9% 9.4% 8.8%
East Midlands £205,835 £217,917 0.4% 0.9% 10.4% 10.7%
East of England £293,051 £313,145 -0.4% -1.1% 6.8% 5.7%
North West £169,320 £192,395 1.7% 1.2% 11.9% 11.9%
South East £331,125 £352,238 1.0% 0.8% 9.0% 8.2%
South West £277,108 £280,826 0.5% -0.2% 9.5% 8.8%
West Midlands £206,461 £219,657 1.3% 0.7% 8.4% 8.2%
Yorkshire and The Humber £174,775 £186,036 0.7% 0.6% 10.8% 10.9%
England £252,731 £276,185 0.4% 0.1% 9.0% 8.6%

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 December 2020
East Midlands 12
East of England 4
London 25
North East 23
North West 42
South East 32
South West 18
West Midlands 13
Yorkshire and The Humber 36
England 205

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