National statistics

UK House Price Index England: July 2021

Published 15 September 2021

Applies to England

1. Headline statistics for July 2021

The average price of a property in England was £270,973

The annual price change of a property in England was 7.0%

The monthly price change of a property in England was -4.5%

The index figure for England (January 2015 = 100) was 133.6

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 August 2021 UK HPI will be published at 9.30am on Wednesday 20 October 2021. See the calendar of release dates for more information.

2. Economic statement

England house prices grew by 7.0% in the year to July 2021, down from 13.2% in June 2021. The North East was the fastest growing region with annual growth of 10.8% in the year to July 2021. The lowest annual growth was in London, where prices increased by 2.2% over the year to July 2021.

On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, average house prices in England decreased by 4.5% between June and July 2021, compared with an increase of 1.0% during the same period a year earlier (June and July 2020). On a seasonally adjusted basis, average house prices in England decreased by 5.2% between June and July 2021.

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for May 2020 with the provisional estimate for May 2021, volume transactions increased by 2.3% in England. UK volume transactions increased by 25.5% 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 115.0% in England in the year to May 2021.

Across England, detached houses showed the biggest increase out of all property types, growing by 8.0% in the year to July 2021 to £415,000. The lowest annual change was in flats and maisonettes which increased by 4.5% in the year to July 2021 to £237,000.

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 7.0% in the year to July 2021, down from 13.2% in May 2021.

In London, average house prices increased by 2.2% in the year to July 2021, down from an increase of 5.1% in June 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 July 2021 July 2020 Difference
Adur £354,248 £309,401 14.5%
Allerdale £166,801 £155,587 7.2%
Amber Valley £195,988 £181,963 7.7%
Arun £328,299 £281,691 16.5%
Ashfield £159,176 £150,133 6.0%
Ashford £323,099 £295,580 9.3%
Babergh £312,413 £286,524 9.0%
Barking and Dagenham £322,949 £303,116 6.5%
Barnet £536,926 £519,722 3.3%
Barnsley £147,973 £130,016 13.8%
Barrow-in-Furness £142,532 £122,754 16.1%
Basildon £330,422 £313,594 5.4%
Basingstoke and Deane £324,731 £297,330 9.2%
Bassetlaw £176,651 £160,146 10.3%
Bath and North East Somerset £380,787 £347,652 9.5%
Bedford £309,120 £280,659 10.1%
Bexley £366,710 £344,309 6.5%
Birmingham £205,974 £193,374 6.5%
Blaby £259,385 £237,734 9.1%
Blackburn with Darwen £132,459 £117,635 12.6%
Blackpool £121,945 £107,639 13.3%
Bolsover £144,549 £134,329 7.6%
Bolton £167,163 £140,688 18.8%
Boston £177,184 £159,815 10.9%
Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole £309,741 £286,783 8.0%
Bracknell Forest £348,865 £337,457 3.4%
Bradford £146,037 £139,240 4.9%
Braintree £310,419 £283,299 9.6%
Breckland £249,653 £225,779 10.6%
Brent £535,095 £485,652 10.2%
Brentwood £458,085 £419,065 9.3%
Brighton and Hove £404,763 £368,203 9.9%
Broadland £294,633 £270,676 8.9%
Bromley £464,008 £429,083 8.1%
Bromsgrove £318,142 £288,348 10.3%
Broxbourne £371,467 £340,492 9.1%
Broxtowe £205,246 £196,542 4.4%
Buckinghamshire £437,478 £393,630 11.1%
Burnley £100,875 £89,746 12.4%
Bury £212,674 £189,216 12.4%
Calderdale £161,106 £147,602 9.1%
Cambridge £460,188 £443,115 3.9%
Cambridgeshire £312,647 £294,280 6.2%
Camden £818,260 £818,599 0.0%
Cannock Chase £203,013 £176,547 15.0%
Canterbury £322,556 £310,350 3.9%
Carlisle £152,524 £134,615 13.3%
Castle Point £334,996 £305,266 9.7%
Central Bedfordshire £332,205 £303,417 9.5%
Charnwood £258,412 £225,031 14.8%
Chelmsford £349,714 £338,104 3.4%
Cheltenham £288,278 £278,477 3.5%
Cherwell £327,136 £293,092 11.6%
Cheshire East £261,225 £227,192 15.0%
Cheshire West and Chester £236,681 £208,898 13.3%
Chesterfield £181,907 £165,009 10.2%
Chichester £425,614 £382,718 11.2%
Chorley £208,698 £185,122 12.7%
City of Bristol £316,873 £291,111 8.8%
City of Derby £180,884 £164,504 10.0%
City of Kingston upon Hull £121,191 £116,060 4.4%
City of London £705,091 £786,860 -10.4%
City of Nottingham £172,498 £153,725 12.2%
City of Peterborough £216,713 £195,569 10.8%
City of Plymouth £193,216 £181,118 6.7%
City of Westminster £898,011 £927,064 -3.1%
Colchester £283,485 £259,707 9.2%
Copeland £139,106 £122,507 13.5%
Corby £210,330 £192,993 9.0%
Cornwall £267,982 £239,307 12.0%
Cotswold £405,730 £389,608 4.1%
County Durham £118,949 £102,579 16.0%
Coventry £206,171 £189,636 8.7%
Craven £244,186 £230,985 5.7%
Crawley £288,560 £278,067 3.8%
Croydon £389,967 £376,862 3.5%
Cumbria £177,257 £158,296 12.0%
Dacorum £441,200 £401,229 10.0%
Darlington £147,339 £126,584 16.4%
Dartford £334,025 £307,216 8.7%
Daventry £298,808 £271,775 9.9%
Derbyshire £203,099 £183,801 10.5%
Derbyshire Dales £300,455 £270,793 11.0%
Devon £293,003 £258,169 13.5%
Doncaster £143,870 £134,883 6.7%
Dorset £306,752 £288,988 6.1%
Dover £275,059 £246,795 11.5%
Dudley £208,433 £186,425 11.8%
Ealing £507,902 £473,622 7.2%
East Cambridgeshire £298,736 £285,060 4.8%
East Devon £324,366 £282,551 14.8%
East Hampshire £415,966 £378,984 9.8%
East Hertfordshire £411,151 £396,869 3.6%
East Lindsey £202,928 £175,716 15.5%
East Northamptonshire £272,258 £238,216 14.3%
East Riding of Yorkshire £202,552 £184,298 9.9%
East Staffordshire £196,849 £190,265 3.5%
East Suffolk £265,706 £247,485 7.4%
East Sussex £319,533 £280,550 13.9%
Eastbourne £259,802 £239,564 8.4%
Eastleigh £321,480 £282,403 13.8%
Eden £232,709 £203,771 14.2%
Elmbridge £686,615 £588,471 16.7%
Enfield £438,360 £388,848 12.7%
Epping Forest £484,137 £473,119 2.3%
Epsom and Ewell £493,082 £472,826 4.3%
Erewash £187,165 £169,901 10.2%
Essex £338,373 £312,299 8.3%
Exeter £279,484 £257,126 8.7%
Fareham £335,655 £299,352 12.1%
Fenland £214,599 £195,445 9.8%
Folkestone and Hythe £267,451 £257,501 3.9%
Forest of Dean £262,005 £249,797 4.9%
Fylde £226,601 £192,160 17.9%
Gateshead £134,951 £130,472 3.4%
Gedling £214,656 £195,603 9.7%
Gloucester £215,613 £207,800 3.8%
Gloucestershire £288,278 £271,640 6.1%
Gosport £236,907 £210,241 12.7%
Gravesham £308,777 £274,977 12.3%
Great Yarmouth £192,184 £170,447 12.8%
Greenwich £398,099 £388,479 2.5%
Guildford £455,713 £436,641 4.4%
Hackney £611,666 £594,579 2.9%
Halton £169,272 £148,425 14.0%
Hambleton £260,118 £228,848 13.7%
Hammersmith and Fulham £810,146 £757,948 6.9%
Hampshire £350,447 £314,315 11.5%
Harborough £339,600 £291,966 16.3%
Haringey £554,209 £540,212 2.6%
Harlow £302,538 £269,912 12.1%
Harrogate £311,961 £282,806 10.3%
Harrow £495,475 £452,451 9.5%
Hart £440,204 £406,943 8.2%
Hartlepool £116,548 £106,740 9.2%
Hastings £263,461 £213,141 23.6%
Havant £302,427 £270,136 12.0%
Havering £390,572 £373,616 4.5%
Herefordshire £258,583 £239,506 8.0%
Hertfordshire £425,455 £396,130 7.4%
Hertsmere £505,245 £465,370 8.6%
High Peak £225,743 £202,757 11.3%
Hillingdon £422,359 £409,419 3.2%
Hinckley and Bosworth £252,206 £224,255 12.5%
Horsham £402,947 £369,092 9.2%
Hounslow £413,411 £397,760 3.9%
Huntingdonshire £277,246 £259,760 6.7%
Hyndburn £105,132 £100,707 4.4%
Ipswich £212,919 £196,853 8.2%
Isle of Wight £244,245 £226,140 8.0%
Islington £651,748 £654,876 -0.5%
Kensington and Chelsea £1,332,496 £1,322,671 0.7%
Kent £320,429 £296,727 8.0%
Kettering £228,382 £200,814 13.7%
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk £249,197 £222,317 12.1%
Kingston upon Thames £515,249 £486,150 6.0%
Kirklees £174,199 £151,950 14.6%
Knowsley £155,288 £135,124 14.9%
Lambeth £510,057 £535,236 -4.7%
Lancashire £166,224 £149,283 11.3%
Lancaster £182,780 £158,587 15.3%
Leeds £214,925 £192,454 11.7%
Leicester £202,344 £187,085 8.2%
Leicestershire £263,327 £234,538 12.3%
Lewes £365,573 £318,634 14.7%
Lewisham £412,245 £420,800 -2.0%
Lichfield £296,612 £253,686 16.9%
Lincoln £172,024 £159,704 7.7%
Lincolnshire £205,451 £187,053 9.8%
Liverpool £162,259 £140,187 15.7%
Luton £250,027 £227,928 9.7%
Maidstone £313,619 £291,356 7.6%
Maldon £369,393 £334,076 10.6%
Malvern Hills £304,592 £262,515 16.0%
Manchester £207,625 £182,682 13.7%
Mansfield £160,855 £142,664 12.8%
Medway £267,371 £243,096 10.0%
Melton £255,502 £229,955 11.1%
Mendip £282,751 £259,172 9.1%
Merton £540,972 £528,343 2.4%
Mid Devon £255,205 £237,663 7.4%
Mid Suffolk £280,162 £266,775 5.0%
Mid Sussex £399,158 £368,465 8.3%
Middlesbrough £123,155 £112,146 9.8%
Milton Keynes £286,797 £258,872 10.8%
Mole Valley £523,863 £475,765 10.1%
New Forest £382,474 £335,627 14.0%
Newark and Sherwood £205,582 £185,649 10.7%
Newcastle upon Tyne £175,973 £160,987 9.3%
Newcastle-under-Lyme £164,190 £157,172 4.5%
Newham £368,631 £380,567 -3.1%
Norfolk £253,681 £230,410 10.1%
North Devon £291,457 £238,003 22.5%
North East Derbyshire £217,276 £192,640 12.8%
North East Lincolnshire £138,895 £126,824 9.5%
North Hertfordshire £372,278 £338,153 10.1%
North Kesteven £232,730 £214,260 8.6%
North Lincolnshire £170,435 £152,281 11.9%
North Norfolk £284,190 £246,070 15.5%
North Somerset £297,225 £270,477 9.9%
North Tyneside £176,767 £164,896 7.2%
North Warwickshire £233,125 £206,413 12.9%
North West Leicestershire £240,720 £217,125 10.9%
North Yorkshire £247,443 £224,457 10.2%
Northampton £235,990 £213,263 10.7%
Northamptonshire £256,153 £229,544 11.6%
Northumberland £179,705 £156,443 14.9%
Norwich £210,330 £207,665 1.3%
Nottinghamshire £201,256 £185,184 8.7%
Nuneaton and Bedworth £202,256 £182,663 10.7%
Oadby and Wigston £238,052 £224,737 5.9%
Oldham £164,213 £143,651 14.3%
Oxford £459,973 £398,891 15.3%
Oxfordshire £388,889 £356,123 9.2%
Pendle £120,499 £106,387 13.3%
Portsmouth £226,069 £214,250 5.5%
Preston £141,624 £129,475 9.4%
Reading £315,305 £285,200 10.6%
Redbridge £451,284 £416,107 8.5%
Redcar and Cleveland £137,586 £119,168 15.5%
Redditch £234,100 £215,972 8.4%
Reigate and Banstead £435,394 £415,359 4.8%
Ribble Valley £239,953 £217,563 10.3%
Richmond upon Thames £713,880 £690,279 3.4%
Richmondshire £254,145 £209,260 21.4%
Rochdale £165,786 £145,435 14.0%
Rochford £372,271 £347,360 7.2%
Rossendale £168,990 £140,913 19.9%
Rother £346,699 £301,403 15.0%
Rotherham £166,193 £144,513 15.0%
Rugby £270,438 £243,123 11.2%
Runnymede £464,594 £418,372 11.0%
Rushcliffe £311,125 £292,424 6.4%
Rushmoor £305,295 £283,277 7.8%
Rutland £371,052 £318,296 16.6%
Ryedale £257,598 £244,751 5.2%
Salford £194,347 £169,069 15.0%
Sandwell £173,804 £158,322 9.8%
Scarborough £187,762 £169,696 10.6%
Sedgemoor £258,645 £227,639 13.6%
Sefton £178,877 £166,328 7.5%
Selby £219,992 £205,464 7.1%
Sevenoaks £484,070 £441,942 9.5%
Sheffield £185,750 £167,849 10.7%
Shropshire £247,626 £216,557 14.3%
Slough £315,655 £295,396 6.9%
Solihull £307,150 £278,115 10.4%
Somerset £263,808 £237,934 10.9%
Somerset West and Taunton £262,771 £237,109 10.8%
South Cambridgeshire £387,759 £367,584 5.5%
South Derbyshire £220,148 £193,972 13.5%
South Gloucestershire £311,171 £281,769 10.4%
South Hams £345,027 £298,661 15.5%
South Holland £208,450 £186,211 11.9%
South Kesteven £223,929 £217,061 3.2%
South Lakeland £260,475 £236,499 10.1%
South Norfolk £298,907 £269,449 10.9%
South Northamptonshire £365,432 £312,038 17.1%
South Oxfordshire £453,469 £419,136 8.2%
South Ribble £190,283 £175,724 8.3%
South Somerset £257,251 £233,317 10.3%
South Staffordshire £274,822 £245,542 11.9%
South Tyneside £149,545 £131,818 13.4%
Southampton £217,346 £212,769 2.2%
Southend-on-Sea £316,204 £286,625 10.3%
Southwark £525,532 £510,120 3.0%
Spelthorne £375,054 £367,064 2.2%
St Albans £549,740 £503,105 9.3%
St Helens £157,188 £137,158 14.6%
Stafford £230,952 £209,056 10.5%
Staffordshire £218,100 £198,345 10.0%
Staffordshire Moorlands £213,529 £186,338 14.6%
Stevenage £298,199 £277,416 7.5%
Stockport £261,888 £236,828 10.6%
Stockton-on-Tees £153,754 £134,591 14.2%
Stoke-on-Trent £135,308 £114,719 17.9%
Stratford-on-Avon £355,444 £299,330 18.7%
Stroud £303,829 £280,086 8.5%
Suffolk £267,257 £247,164 8.1%
Sunderland £127,049 £119,989 5.9%
Surrey £477,123 £443,800 7.5%
Surrey Heath £411,327 £386,322 6.5%
Sutton £401,331 £374,822 7.1%
Swale £258,895 £256,320 1.0%
Swindon £233,486 £217,329 7.4%
Tameside £179,955 £156,632 14.9%
Tamworth £208,179 £191,841 8.5%
Tandridge £498,869 £459,012 8.7%
Teignbridge £274,492 £253,859 8.1%
Telford and Wrekin £199,978 £169,047 18.3%
Tendring £250,405 £219,211 14.2%
Test Valley £366,821 £328,871 11.5%
Tewkesbury £318,372 £280,367 13.6%
Thanet £272,367 £241,940 12.6%
Three Rivers £524,215 £513,285 2.1%
Thurrock £296,696 £273,402 8.5%
Tonbridge and Malling £405,882 £373,537 8.7%
Torbay £212,821 £202,399 5.1%
Torridge £274,619 £229,057 19.9%
Tower Hamlets £496,344 £453,003 9.6%
Trafford £323,838 £300,232 7.9%
Tunbridge Wells £408,486 £369,971 10.4%
Uttlesford £430,537 £394,234 9.2%
Vale of White Horse £384,907 £351,178 9.6%
Wakefield £174,884 £155,078 12.8%
Walsall £200,629 £175,414 14.4%
Waltham Forest £490,728 £445,442 10.2%
Wandsworth £600,530 £595,298 0.9%
Warrington £227,603 £198,597 14.6%
Warwick £316,000 £308,027 2.6%
Warwickshire £279,212 £251,864 10.9%
Watford £378,594 £353,017 7.2%
Waverley £490,244 £460,113 6.5%
Wealden £373,993 £334,752 11.7%
Wellingborough £237,859 £224,274 6.1%
Welwyn Hatfield £410,693 £386,531 6.3%
West Berkshire £349,539 £332,192 5.2%
West Devon £284,317 £248,071 14.6%
West Lancashire £203,763 £193,070 5.5%
West Lindsey £195,985 £174,140 12.5%
West Oxfordshire £345,774 £335,695 3.0%
West Suffolk £289,403 £260,916 10.9%
West Sussex £356,189 £320,044 11.3%
Wigan £165,318 £140,660 17.5%
Wiltshire £297,804 £275,271 8.2%
Winchester £470,583 £408,957 15.1%
Windsor and Maidenhead £506,867 £469,252 8.0%
Wirral £183,982 £158,962 15.7%
Woking £435,617 £405,208 7.5%
Wokingham £441,349 £412,011 7.1%
Wolverhampton £175,497 £158,017 11.1%
Worcester £228,413 £209,654 8.9%
Worcestershire £271,244 £239,728 13.1%
Worthing £310,533 £271,192 14.5%
Wychavon £315,948 £273,343 15.6%
Wyre £167,598 £154,158 8.7%
Wyre Forest £233,215 £194,741 19.8%
York £287,935 £257,146 12.0%
England £270,973 £253,226 7.0%

Average price by local authority for England

In July 2021, the most expensive area to purchase a property was Kensington and Chelsea, where the average cost was £1.3 million. In contrast, the cheapest area to purchase a property was Burnley, where the average cost was £101,000.

3.2 Annual price change by London borough

Annual price change by London borough

London borough July 2021 July 2020 Difference
Barking and Dagenham £322,949 £303,116 6.5%
Barnet £536,926 £519,722 3.3%
Bexley £366,710 £344,309 6.5%
Brent £535,095 £485,652 10.2%
Bromley £464,008 £429,083 8.1%
Camden £818,260 £818,599 0.0%
City of London £705,091 £786,860 -10.4%
City of Westminster £898,011 £927,064 -3.1%
Croydon £389,967 £376,862 3.5%
Ealing £507,902 £473,622 7.2%
Enfield £438,360 £388,848 12.7%
Greenwich £398,099 £388,479 2.5%
Hackney £611,666 £594,579 2.9%
Hammersmith and Fulham £810,146 £757,948 6.9%
Haringey £554,209 £540,212 2.6%
Harrow £495,475 £452,451 9.5%
Havering £390,572 £373,616 4.5%
Hillingdon £422,359 £409,419 3.2%
Hounslow £413,411 £397,760 3.9%
Islington £651,748 £654,876 -0.5%
Kensington and Chelsea £1,332,496 £1,322,671 0.7%
Kingston upon Thames £515,249 £486,150 6.0%
Lambeth £510,057 £535,236 -4.7%
Lewisham £412,245 £420,800 -2.0%
Merton £540,972 £528,343 2.4%
Newham £368,631 £380,567 -3.1%
Redbridge £451,284 £416,107 8.5%
Richmond upon Thames £713,880 £690,279 3.4%
Southwark £525,532 £510,120 3.0%
Sutton £401,331 £374,822 7.1%
Tower Hamlets £496,344 £453,003 9.6%
Waltham Forest £490,728 £445,442 10.2%
Wandsworth £600,530 £595,298 0.9%

Average price by London borough

In July 2021, the most expensive borough to purchase a property was Kensington and Chelsea, where the average cost was £1.3 million. In contrast, the cheapest borough to purchase a property was Barking and Dagenham, where the average cost was £323,000.

3.3 Average price change by property type

Average price change by property type for England

Property type July 2021 July 2020 Difference
Detached £414,849 £384,026 8.0%
Semi-detached £257,831 £238,857 7.9%
Terraced £220,117 £206,198 6.8%
Flat or maisonette £237,188 £227,032 4.5%
All £270,973 £253,226 7.0%

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 May 2021 May 2020
Adur 33 34
Allerdale 49 74
Amber Valley 71 91
Arun 138 119
Ashfield 65 105
Ashford 75 86
Babergh 52 60
Barking and Dagenham 63 52
Barnet 120 83
Barnsley 111 167
Barrow-in-Furness 52 61
Basildon 85 89
Basingstoke and Deane 108 114
Bassetlaw 56 93
Bath and North East Somerset 84 89
Bedford 91 111
Bexley 97 101
Birmingham 350 606
Blaby 41 68
Blackburn with Darwen 70 57
Blackpool 86 81
Bolsover 42 67
Bolton 116 142
Boston 38 45
Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole 262 276
Bracknell Forest 74 97
Bradford 271 287
Braintree 89 106
Breckland 95 95
Brent 62 72
Brentwood 48 31
Brighton and Hove 145 134
Broadland 79 80
Bromley 176 170
Bromsgrove 40 67
Broxbourne 61 54
Broxtowe 60 70
Buckinghamshire 269 272
Burnley 55 47
Bury 100 105
Calderdale 98 149
Cambridge 37 33
Cambridgeshire 299 357
Camden 59 63
Cannock Chase 58 61
Canterbury 82 95
Carlisle 68 66
Castle Point 61 67
Central Bedfordshire 169 215
Charnwood 89 101
Chelmsford 87 92
Cheltenham 72 85
Cherwell 73 96
Cheshire East 212 338
Cheshire West and Chester 185 211
Chesterfield 50 85
Chichester 81 59
Chorley 68 79
City of Bristol 203 289
City of Derby 121 126
City of Kingston upon Hull 122 140
City of London 3 5
City of Nottingham 107 161
City of Peterborough 98 123
City of Plymouth 137 159
City of Westminster 55 72
Colchester 103 157
Copeland 44 58
Corby 30 34
Cornwall 342 386
Cotswold 50 41
County Durham 282 359
Coventry 127 149
Craven 28 37
Crawley 67 38
Croydon 167 134
Cumbria 314 378
Dacorum 86 66
Darlington 81 52
Dartford 56 88
Daventry 45 62
Derbyshire 456 568
Derbyshire Dales 34 37
Devon 503 473
Doncaster 162 196
Dorset 226 239
Dover 78 58
Dudley 128 166
Ealing 106 102
East Cambridgeshire 44 48
East Devon 110 87
East Hampshire 68 66
East Hertfordshire 70 87
East Lindsey 88 105
East Northamptonshire 49 49
East Riding of Yorkshire 182 256
East Staffordshire 58 76
East Suffolk 142 141
East Sussex 382 373
Eastbourne 72 69
Eastleigh 69 97
Eden 34 42
Elmbridge 72 72
Enfield 108 78
Epping Forest 71 64
Epsom and Ewell 33 52
Erewash 69 74
Essex 795 898
Exeter 58 59
Fareham 63 66
Fenland 58 62
Folkestone and Hythe 75 76
Forest of Dean 46 45
Fylde 60 56
Gateshead 65 115
Gedling 72 110
Gloucester 73 105
Gloucestershire 367 386
Gosport 59 52
Gravesham 28 41
Great Yarmouth 65 67
Greenwich 89 94
Guildford 52 61
Hackney 70 68
Halton 43 62
Hambleton 48 37
Hammersmith and Fulham 80 95
Hampshire 837 806
Harborough 69 75
Haringey 69 77
Harlow 37 45
Harrogate 94 105
Harrow 71 65
Hart 43 61
Hartlepool 53 58
Hastings 60 60
Havant 97 74
Havering 145 145
Herefordshire 90 104
Hertfordshire 580 563
Hertsmere 53 58
High Peak 67 55
Hillingdon 111 101
Hinckley and Bosworth 65 75
Horsham 74 101
Hounslow 90 67
Huntingdonshire 96 136
Hyndburn 40 52
Ipswich 56 87
Isle of Wight 95 105
Islington 44 64
Kensington and Chelsea 62 65
Kent 887 938
Kettering 53 76
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk 111 103
Kingston upon Thames 86 55
Kirklees 178 257
Knowsley 55 88
Lambeth 103 129
Lancashire 649 785
Lancaster 64 92
Leeds 404 482
Leicester 112 133
Leicestershire 359 455
Lewes 57 63
Lewisham 85 131
Lichfield 53 62
Lincoln 61 69
Lincolnshire 432 570
Liverpool 191 275
Luton 69 86
Maidstone 119 114
Maldon 32 30
Malvern Hills 30 27
Manchester 140 272
Mansfield 66 85
Medway 132 143
Melton 22 51
Mendip 65 71
Merton 72 68
Mid Devon 40 59
Mid Suffolk 52 48
Mid Sussex 74 83
Middlesbrough 63 64
Milton Keynes 128 164
Mole Valley 50 45
New Forest 125 89
Newark and Sherwood 70 120
Newcastle upon Tyne 138 132
Newcastle-under-Lyme 75 82
Newham 55 75
Norfolk 586 601
North Devon 74 54
North East Derbyshire 52 63
North East Lincolnshire 101 106
North Hertfordshire 49 56
North Kesteven 57 91
North Lincolnshire 108 103
North Norfolk 76 79
North Somerset 153 158
North Tyneside 85 141
North Warwickshire 38 33
North West Leicestershire 55 59
North Yorkshire 336 383
Northampton 89 140
Northamptonshire 370 479
Northumberland 183 200
Norwich 78 81
Nottinghamshire 442 665
Nuneaton and Bedworth 75 85
Oadby and Wigston 18 26
Oldham 98 114
Oxford 57 41
Oxfordshire 335 369
Pendle 49 57
Portsmouth 110 117
Preston 49 88
Reading 72 67
Redbridge 100 70
Redcar and Cleveland 74 78
Redditch 51 59
Reigate and Banstead 106 76
Ribble Valley 33 42
Richmond upon Thames 88 86
Richmondshire 19 27
Rochdale 104 155
Rochford 30 50
Rossendale 40 60
Rother 72 74
Rotherham 120 175
Rugby 46 98
Runnymede 55 37
Rushcliffe 53 82
Rushmoor 54 54
Rutland 11 28
Ryedale 20 36
Salford 97 144
Sandwell 87 125
Scarborough 69 75
Sedgemoor 68 83
Sefton 171 162
Selby 58 66
Sevenoaks 61 59
Sheffield 185 282
Shropshire 145 179
Slough 35 41
Solihull 117 92
Somerset 318 374
Somerset West and Taunton 81 104
South Cambridgeshire 64 78
South Derbyshire 71 96
South Gloucestershire 156 139
South Hams 53 56
South Holland 63 72
South Kesteven 67 115
South Lakeland 67 77
South Norfolk 82 96
South Northamptonshire 62 76
South Oxfordshire 85 84
South Ribble 55 74
South Somerset 104 116
South Staffordshire 46 57
South Tyneside 60 73
Southampton 97 119
Southend-on-Sea 104 100
Southwark 95 109
Spelthorne 63 41
St Albans 92 67
St Helens 89 118
Stafford 63 77
Staffordshire 441 556
Staffordshire Moorlands 49 80
Stevenage 40 54
Stockport 157 153
Stockton-on-Tees 71 120
Stoke-on-Trent 129 202
Stratford-on-Avon 53 73
Stroud 85 68
Suffolk 383 447
Sunderland 113 165
Surrey 645 615
Surrey Heath 50 57
Sutton 92 92
Swale 72 93
Swindon 130 159
Tameside 149 110
Tamworth 39 61
Tandridge 50 51
Teignbridge 80 75
Telford and Wrekin 82 101
Tendring 104 126
Test Valley 76 77
Tewkesbury 41 42
Thanet 99 81
Three Rivers 46 40
Thurrock 84 99
Tonbridge and Malling 79 90
Torbay 105 93
Torridge 54 38
Tower Hamlets 59 106
Trafford 122 111
Tunbridge Wells 63 57
Uttlesford 48 41
Vale of White Horse 65 83
Wakefield 182 249
Walsall 104 129
Waltham Forest 103 84
Wandsworth 141 151
Warrington 101 126
Warwick 71 56
Warwickshire 283 345
Watford 32 38
Waverley 55 80
Wealden 121 107
Wellingborough 42 42
Welwyn Hatfield 51 43
West Berkshire 91 67
West Devon 34 45
West Lancashire 57 68
West Lindsey 58 73
West Oxfordshire 55 65
West Suffolk 81 111
West Sussex 541 496
Wigan 137 263
Wiltshire 234 273
Winchester 75 56
Windsor and Maidenhead 71 50
Wirral 172 181
Woking 59 43
Wokingham 67 76
Wolverhampton 89 119
Worcester 55 48
Worcestershire 280 343
Worthing 74 62
Wychavon 62 87
Wyre 79 70
Wyre Forest 42 55
York 67 105
England 26,733 30,798

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

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for May 2020 with the provisional estimate for May 2021, volume transactions increased by 2.3% 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 115.0% in England in the year to May 2021.

4.2 Sales volumes by London borough

Sales volumes by London borough

London borough May 2021 May 2020
Barking and Dagenham 63 52
Barnet 120 83
Bexley 97 101
Brent 62 72
Bromley 176 170
Camden 59 63
City of London 3 5
City of Westminster 55 72
Croydon 167 134
Ealing 106 102
Enfield 108 78
Greenwich 89 94
Hackney 70 68
Hammersmith and Fulham 80 95
Haringey 69 77
Harrow 71 65
Havering 145 145
Hillingdon 111 101
Hounslow 90 67
Islington 44 64
Kensington and Chelsea 62 65
Kingston upon Thames 86 55
Lambeth 103 129
Lewisham 85 131
Merton 72 68
Newham 55 75
Redbridge 100 70
Richmond upon Thames 88 86
Southwark 95 109
Sutton 92 92
Tower Hamlets 59 106
Waltham Forest 103 84
Wandsworth 141 151

Note: The number of property transactions for May 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
May 2017 69,176
May 2018 67,590
May 2019 66,812
May 2020 30,798
May 2021 26,733

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for May 2020 with the provisional estimate for May 2021, volume transactions increased by 2.3% 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 115.0% in England in the year to May 2021.

4.4 Sales volumes for London

Sales volumes for London over the past 5 years

Date Sales volumes for London
May 2017 7,874
May 2018 6,980
May 2019 6,815
May 2020 2,929
May 2021 2,926

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 May 2021 Average existing May 2021 New build monthly change Existing monthly change New build annual change Existing annual change
London £522,849 £493,788 -2.4% -0.5% 4.0% 5.0%
North East £213,065 £132,901 -1.9% -1.1% 11.1% 8.0%
East Midlands £307,566 £208,205 0.3% 0.8% 14.1% 10.1%
East of England £412,688 £304,468 0.5% 0.3% 11.1% 7.2%
North West £264,277 £181,386 0.0% 0.4% 15.9% 13.0%
South East £428,446 £340,409 0.4% 0.1% 11.4% 7.5%
South West £351,736 £275,228 0.0% -0.3% 13.6% 9.0%
West Midlands £311,874 £212,741 0.3% 0.4% 12.7% 8.8%
Yorkshire and The Humber £242,596 £176,322 0.2% 0.2% 12.7% 9.0%
England £351,308 £264,010 -0.2% 0.1% 11.7% 8.7%

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 July 2021 Average former owner occupier price July 2021 First time buyer monthly change Former owner occupier monthly change First time buyer annual change Former owner occupier annual change
London £428,428 £565,960 -2.2% -1.7% 1.6% 3.1%
North East £123,914 £165,677 -3.4% -3.6% 10.3% 11.4%
East Midlands £180,046 £242,069 -5.5% -5.6% 6.6% 7.0%
East of England £259,514 £352,156 -3.4% -4.2% 6.8% 6.8%
North West £156,357 £209,820 -7.5% -7.8% 8.1% 8.0%
South East £281,930 £412,382 -1.1% -1.4% 8.4% 9.1%
South West £228,334 £312,355 -5.3% -6.2% 5.3% 5.1%
West Midlands £184,143 £253,067 -4.5% -5.3% 8.3% 8.6%
Yorkshire and The Humber £154,407 £203,148 -6.7% -6.8% 6.6% 7.1%
England £226,474 £308,668 -4.3% -4.7% 6.7% 7.3%

7. Funding status

Cash and mortgage indicator for England by region

Region Average cash price July 2021 Average mortgage price July 2021 Cash monthly change Mortgage monthly change Cash annual change Mortgage annual change
London £521,157 £486,975 0.8% -2.6% 3.0% 2.1%
North East £132,906 £151,795 -3.7% -3.3% 11.2% 10.7%
East Midlands £205,477 £218,326 -5.8% -5.4% 6.4% 7.0%
East of England £295,456 £320,125 -4.4% -3.6% 6.5% 6.9%
North West £169,200 £193,628 -7.7% -7.6% 7.7% 8.3%
South East £339,910 £361,649 -0.8% -1.4% 9.4% 8.5%
South West £272,106 £280,193 -6.3% -5.5% 4.7% 5.4%
West Midlands £210,138 £225,576 -5.0% -4.9% 8.3% 8.5%
Yorkshire and The Humber £172,020 £184,482 -6.9% -6.7% 6.5% 7.0%
England £254,412 £279,273 -4.6% -4.5% 7.0% 7.0%

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 May 2021
East Midlands 3
East of England 1
London 9
North East 20
North West 27
South East 12
South West 8
West Midlands 5
Yorkshire and The Humber 9
England 94

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