National statistics

UK House Price Index England: March 2021

Published 19 May 2021

Applies to England

1. Headline statistics for March 2021

The average price of a property in England was £274,615

The annual price change of a property in England was 10.2%

The monthly price change of a property in England was 1.7%

The index figure for England (January 2015 = 100) was 135.4

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 April 2021 UK HPI will be published at 9.30am on Wednesday 16 June 2021. See the calendar of release dates for more information.

2. Economic statement

England house prices grew by 10.2% in the year to March 2021, up from 9.4% in February 2021. England house prices were growing the same as the UK rate of 10.2% in the year to March 2021. Yorkshire and The Humber was the fastest growing region with annual growth of 14.0% in the year to March 2021. The lowest annual growth was in London, where prices increased by 3.7% over the year to March 2021.

On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, average house prices in England increased by 1.7% between February and March 2021, compared with an increase of 1.0% during the same period a year earlier (February and March 2020). On a seasonally adjusted basis, average house prices in England increased by 2.2% between February and March 2021.

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for January 2020 with the provisional estimate for January 2021, volume transactions increased by 5.7% in England. UK volume transactions increased by 6.3% 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 17.8% in England in the year to January 2021.

Across England, terraced houses showed the biggest increase out of all property types, growing by 12.1% in the year to March 2021 to £226,000. The lowest annual change was in flats and maisonettes which increased by 4.4% in the year to March 2021 to £235,000.

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 10.2% in the year to March 2021, up from 9.4% in February 2021.

In London, average house prices increased by 3.7% in the year to March 2021, down from an increase of 4.4% in February 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 March 2021 March 2020 Difference
Adur £351,112 £310,340 13.1%
Allerdale £163,403 £152,725 7.0%
Amber Valley £203,040 £177,602 14.3%
Arun £310,821 £282,352 10.1%
Ashfield £167,393 £146,590 14.2%
Ashford £312,957 £295,451 5.9%
Babergh £312,548 £283,918 10.1%
Barking and Dagenham £317,185 £300,166 5.7%
Barnet £534,005 £522,194 2.3%
Barnsley £137,708 £124,196 10.9%
Barrow-in-Furness £136,403 £117,421 16.2%
Basildon £324,039 £309,499 4.7%
Basingstoke and Deane £317,088 £299,861 5.7%
Bassetlaw £186,025 £160,006 16.3%
Bath and North East Somerset £373,348 £338,787 10.2%
Bedford £305,419 £281,119 8.6%
Bexley £367,015 £339,110 8.2%
Birmingham £207,363 £186,673 11.1%
Blaby £249,077 £232,678 7.0%
Blackburn with Darwen £125,527 £115,138 9.0%
Blackpool £113,053 £107,769 4.9%
Bolsover £149,395 £128,431 16.3%
Bolton £160,095 £141,493 13.1%
Boston £174,063 £155,768 11.7%
Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole £307,001 £281,173 9.2%
Bracknell Forest £350,644 £330,824 6.0%
Bradford £154,500 £136,317 13.3%
Braintree £301,464 £280,859 7.3%
Breckland £251,309 £228,145 10.2%
Brent £510,533 £467,597 9.2%
Brentwood £454,364 £414,607 9.6%
Brighton and Hove £405,451 £362,205 11.9%
Broadland £290,964 £261,693 11.2%
Bromley £463,226 £431,300 7.4%
Bromsgrove £294,805 £293,023 0.6%
Broxbourne £361,266 £338,203 6.8%
Broxtowe £216,668 £196,313 10.4%
Buckinghamshire £425,849 £397,966 7.0%
Burnley £93,572 £86,747 7.9%
Bury £209,652 £181,805 15.3%
Calderdale £173,977 £146,412 18.8%
Cambridge £461,935 £444,113 4.0%
Cambridgeshire £311,944 £292,873 6.5%
Camden £796,442 £847,815 -6.1%
Cannock Chase £191,413 £173,394 10.4%
Canterbury £328,203 £296,522 10.7%
Carlisle £145,202 £132,179 9.9%
Castle Point £333,416 £306,850 8.7%
Central Bedfordshire £323,806 £303,023 6.9%
Charnwood £246,522 £224,845 9.6%
Chelmsford £357,666 £336,370 6.3%
Cheltenham £311,982 £277,117 12.6%
Cherwell £304,258 £290,339 4.8%
Cheshire East £262,936 £227,346 15.7%
Cheshire West and Chester £219,869 £207,713 5.9%
Chesterfield £170,221 £158,926 7.1%
Chichester £414,699 £383,048 8.3%
Chorley £192,860 £180,656 6.8%
City of Bristol £317,210 £283,293 12.0%
City of Derby £176,286 £159,352 10.6%
City of Kingston upon Hull £120,837 £114,918 5.2%
City of London £864,354 £847,240 2.0%
City of Nottingham £161,649 £148,646 8.7%
City of Peterborough £203,886 £193,346 5.5%
City of Plymouth £194,157 £178,183 9.0%
City of Westminster £927,993 £1,009,273 -8.1%
Colchester £275,593 £258,158 6.8%
Copeland £135,988 £122,199 11.3%
Corby £200,963 £186,810 7.6%
Cornwall £273,153 £236,553 15.5%
Cotswold £428,389 £391,534 9.4%
County Durham £115,825 £100,268 15.5%
Coventry £199,730 £188,823 5.8%
Craven £219,129 £213,619 2.6%
Crawley £280,490 £279,051 0.5%
Croydon £385,345 £369,396 4.3%
Cumbria £174,199 £156,182 11.5%
Dacorum £428,422 £402,705 6.4%
Darlington £141,630 £126,067 12.3%
Dartford £324,905 £296,658 9.5%
Daventry £290,905 £263,491 10.4%
Derbyshire £203,555 £179,857 13.2%
Derbyshire Dales £281,661 £270,862 4.0%
Devon £286,602 £263,657 8.7%
Doncaster £149,551 £129,815 15.2%
Dorset £315,051 £288,386 9.2%
Dover £275,797 £247,252 11.5%
Dudley £201,190 £177,946 13.1%
Ealing £490,426 £479,008 2.4%
East Cambridgeshire £300,712 £285,050 5.5%
East Devon £307,598 £291,190 5.6%
East Hampshire £410,679 £371,136 10.7%
East Hertfordshire £415,995 £387,468 7.4%
East Lindsey £200,819 £173,284 15.9%
East Northamptonshire £256,524 £248,909 3.1%
East Riding of Yorkshire £204,200 £179,573 13.7%
East Staffordshire £194,320 £185,747 4.6%
East Suffolk £281,854 £240,247 17.3%
East Sussex £303,052 £279,087 8.6%
Eastbourne £256,343 £241,514 6.1%
Eastleigh £295,809 £284,035 4.1%
Eden £228,051 £189,685 20.2%
Elmbridge £661,964 £586,818 12.8%
Enfield £428,257 £392,795 9.0%
Epping Forest £477,548 £450,650 6.0%
Epsom and Ewell £512,323 £459,051 11.6%
Erewash £187,940 £166,648 12.8%
Essex £330,908 £309,091 7.1%
Exeter £296,636 £261,203 13.6%
Fareham £314,041 £291,857 7.6%
Fenland £200,178 £187,473 6.8%
Folkestone and Hythe £293,076 £259,585 12.9%
Forest of Dean £276,524 £236,832 16.8%
Fylde £214,368 £186,362 15.0%
Gateshead £138,601 £129,259 7.2%
Gedling £222,645 £190,873 16.6%
Gloucester £213,533 £203,549 4.9%
Gloucestershire £295,551 £269,280 9.8%
Gosport £225,508 £213,010 5.9%
Gravesham £290,077 £280,197 3.5%
Great Yarmouth £184,135 £169,637 8.5%
Greenwich £416,306 £394,697 5.5%
Guildford £461,508 £446,550 3.3%
Hackney £604,466 £577,649 4.6%
Halton £160,524 £139,733 14.9%
Hambleton £253,289 £232,344 9.0%
Hammersmith and Fulham £804,517 £719,974 11.7%
Hampshire £334,452 £313,767 6.6%
Harborough £325,062 £292,180 11.3%
Haringey £607,029 £542,472 11.9%
Harlow £275,743 £268,366 2.7%
Harrogate £318,130 £289,296 10.0%
Harrow £479,417 £450,637 6.4%
Hart £408,075 £408,345 -0.1%
Hartlepool £120,141 £108,638 10.6%
Hastings £234,149 £219,560 6.6%
Havant £294,505 £262,331 12.3%
Havering £390,902 £364,650 7.2%
Herefordshire £260,597 £241,940 7.7%
Hertfordshire £418,638 £393,624 6.4%
Hertsmere £503,429 £452,032 11.4%
High Peak £234,122 £195,080 20.0%
Hillingdon £419,408 £408,661 2.6%
Hinckley and Bosworth £238,101 £222,250 7.1%
Horsham £387,541 £364,154 6.4%
Hounslow £423,197 £409,652 3.3%
Huntingdonshire £276,503 £258,589 6.9%
Hyndburn £112,209 £102,676 9.3%
Ipswich £207,519 £191,689 8.3%
Isle of Wight £253,711 £223,780 13.4%
Islington £682,485 £650,972 4.8%
Kensington and Chelsea £1,332,134 £1,337,948 -0.4%
Kent £317,251 £291,604 8.8%
Kettering £223,178 £204,536 9.1%
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk £242,687 £213,124 13.9%
Kingston upon Thames £511,318 £485,856 5.2%
Kirklees £171,939 £153,024 12.4%
Knowsley £148,758 £131,901 12.8%
Lambeth £530,046 £515,490 2.8%
Lancashire £162,953 £146,812 11.0%
Lancaster £173,419 £155,185 11.8%
Leeds £211,818 £186,820 13.4%
Leicester £202,770 £183,663 10.4%
Leicestershire £255,453 £231,270 10.5%
Lewes £356,976 £313,762 13.8%
Lewisham £432,500 £412,814 4.8%
Lichfield £266,772 £259,733 2.7%
Lincoln £171,574 £155,913 10.0%
Lincolnshire £207,398 £185,009 12.1%
Liverpool £156,855 £132,828 18.1%
Luton £239,608 £232,091 3.2%
Maidstone £307,072 £285,672 7.5%
Maldon £344,874 £327,875 5.2%
Malvern Hills £275,199 £273,709 0.5%
Manchester £211,107 £181,623 16.2%
Mansfield £151,651 £140,925 7.6%
Medway £258,787 £239,359 8.1%
Melton £253,078 £224,723 12.6%
Mendip £281,392 £262,788 7.1%
Merton £557,445 £510,522 9.2%
Mid Devon £257,894 £240,786 7.1%
Mid Suffolk £301,461 £257,287 17.2%
Mid Sussex £391,737 £367,701 6.5%
Middlesbrough £121,491 £111,932 8.5%
Milton Keynes £274,840 £261,303 5.2%
Mole Valley £503,385 £480,117 4.8%
New Forest £373,274 £338,618 10.2%
Newark and Sherwood £199,804 £180,691 10.6%
Newcastle upon Tyne £173,968 £153,897 13.0%
Newcastle-under-Lyme £166,859 £157,372 6.0%
Newham £378,862 £370,082 2.4%
Norfolk £249,393 £228,969 8.9%
North Devon £264,086 £248,580 6.2%
North East Derbyshire £208,015 £189,274 9.9%
North East Lincolnshire £136,487 £123,917 10.1%
North Hertfordshire £358,507 £336,779 6.5%
North Kesteven £232,949 £209,851 11.0%
North Lincolnshire £161,092 £148,006 8.8%
North Norfolk £280,966 £258,716 8.6%
North Somerset £291,790 £265,126 10.1%
North Tyneside £177,317 £160,397 10.5%
North Warwickshire £220,755 £202,666 8.9%
North West Leicestershire £232,132 £206,056 12.7%
North Yorkshire £244,208 £223,740 9.1%
Northampton £225,681 £210,859 7.0%
Northamptonshire £245,875 £229,201 7.3%
Northumberland £177,536 £155,435 14.2%
Norwich £212,636 £206,321 3.1%
Nottinghamshire £203,148 £181,760 11.8%
Nuneaton and Bedworth £198,394 £180,891 9.7%
Oadby and Wigston £275,165 £227,346 21.0%
Oldham £155,647 £140,304 10.9%
Oxford £452,297 £404,562 11.8%
Oxfordshire £382,673 £352,412 8.6%
Pendle £118,771 £104,633 13.5%
Portsmouth £231,027 £212,013 9.0%
Preston £143,228 £126,925 12.8%
Reading £306,181 £286,973 6.7%
Redbridge £454,415 £420,364 8.1%
Redcar and Cleveland £139,039 £122,267 13.7%
Redditch £218,158 £208,726 4.5%
Reigate and Banstead £426,396 £410,903 3.8%
Ribble Valley £237,597 £220,535 7.7%
Richmond upon Thames £690,985 £658,817 4.9%
Richmondshire £234,988 £210,480 11.6%
Rochdale £159,555 £141,554 12.7%
Rochford £367,432 £342,788 7.2%
Rossendale £158,521 £142,997 10.9%
Rother £319,493 £293,125 9.0%
Rotherham £164,470 £144,060 14.2%
Rugby £266,509 £232,014 14.9%
Runnymede £441,133 £419,681 5.1%
Rushcliffe £301,127 £282,063 6.8%
Rushmoor £289,335 £279,034 3.7%
Rutland £361,762 £313,139 15.5%
Ryedale £283,052 £235,609 20.1%
Salford £184,692 £170,128 8.6%
Sandwell £170,489 £156,668 8.8%
Scarborough £179,836 £174,471 3.1%
Sedgemoor £249,620 £230,297 8.4%
Sefton £181,492 £164,274 10.5%
Selby £225,208 £198,318 13.6%
Sevenoaks £463,573 £438,933 5.6%
Sheffield £191,733 £169,933 12.8%
Shropshire £234,225 £217,404 7.7%
Slough £297,199 £290,518 2.3%
Solihull £311,404 £282,804 10.1%
Somerset £259,467 £237,387 9.3%
Somerset West and Taunton £261,639 £235,042 11.3%
South Cambridgeshire £403,254 £373,234 8.0%
South Derbyshire £230,370 £194,519 18.4%
South Gloucestershire £291,092 £279,982 4.0%
South Hams £349,346 £308,300 13.3%
South Holland £196,376 £187,530 4.7%
South Kesteven £262,362 £218,493 20.1%
South Lakeland £270,956 £245,900 10.2%
South Norfolk £286,904 £268,039 7.0%
South Northamptonshire £340,582 £320,542 6.3%
South Oxfordshire £450,769 £412,951 9.2%
South Ribble £179,865 £172,372 4.3%
South Somerset £251,575 £229,449 9.6%
South Staffordshire £260,724 £232,908 11.9%
South Tyneside £139,807 £130,375 7.2%
Southampton £219,368 £207,397 5.8%
Southend-on-Sea £308,652 £286,228 7.8%
Southwark £508,423 £498,502 2.0%
Spelthorne £379,251 £366,006 3.6%
St Albans £536,064 £503,209 6.5%
St Helens £148,513 £131,794 12.7%
Stafford £242,091 £209,298 15.7%
Staffordshire £212,283 £196,431 8.1%
Staffordshire Moorlands £211,151 £182,832 15.5%
Stevenage £291,420 £282,394 3.2%
Stockport £260,291 £232,979 11.7%
Stockton-on-Tees £144,651 £134,602 7.5%
Stoke-on-Trent £125,934 £113,246 11.2%
Stratford-on-Avon £353,840 £317,571 11.4%
Stroud £301,758 £286,717 5.2%
Suffolk £273,361 £240,364 13.7%
Sunderland £129,838 £115,942 12.0%
Surrey £470,174 £441,630 6.5%
Surrey Heath £418,252 £381,469 9.6%
Sutton £395,397 £375,271 5.4%
Swale £256,208 £240,915 6.3%
Swindon £224,319 £213,835 4.9%
Tameside £168,541 £154,189 9.3%
Tamworth £192,165 £192,146 0.0%
Tandridge £471,229 £451,065 4.5%
Teignbridge £268,467 £248,510 8.0%
Telford and Wrekin £190,055 £174,293 9.0%
Tendring £237,643 £216,395 9.8%
Test Valley £351,273 £329,660 6.6%
Tewkesbury £313,288 £275,548 13.7%
Thanet £265,517 £233,513 13.7%
Three Rivers £543,732 £504,984 7.7%
Thurrock £289,490 £265,756 8.9%
Tonbridge and Malling £390,617 £366,893 6.5%
Torbay £211,617 £202,728 4.4%
Torridge £260,047 £237,197 9.6%
Tower Hamlets £496,247 £477,971 3.8%
Trafford £332,768 £299,475 11.1%
Tunbridge Wells £417,066 £377,298 10.5%
Uttlesford £445,155 £400,164 11.2%
Vale of White Horse £387,514 £350,670 10.5%
Wakefield £166,844 £152,196 9.6%
Walsall £183,199 £166,888 9.8%
Waltham Forest £490,895 £436,083 12.6%
Wandsworth £598,279 £610,358 -2.0%
Warrington £216,810 £197,400 9.8%
Warwick £322,990 £311,924 3.5%
Warwickshire £276,842 £252,612 9.6%
Watford £367,700 £345,009 6.6%
Waverley £466,352 £447,804 4.1%
Wealden £358,968 £330,480 8.6%
Wellingborough £234,755 £217,376 8.0%
Welwyn Hatfield £396,011 £395,563 0.1%
West Berkshire £364,933 £342,168 6.7%
West Devon £286,625 £258,101 11.1%
West Lancashire £221,023 £183,373 20.5%
West Lindsey £184,028 £171,531 7.3%
West Oxfordshire £351,343 £324,206 8.4%
West Suffolk £284,259 £252,764 12.5%
West Sussex £344,223 £320,224 7.5%
Wigan £153,467 £137,813 11.4%
Wiltshire £297,154 £269,789 10.1%
Winchester £434,916 £416,352 4.5%
Windsor and Maidenhead £494,994 £477,904 3.6%
Wirral £180,350 £153,345 17.6%
Woking £454,400 £410,621 10.7%
Wokingham £445,488 £408,822 9.0%
Wolverhampton £167,896 £157,058 6.9%
Worcester £223,423 £213,762 4.5%
Worcestershire £255,048 £242,894 5.0%
Worthing £297,394 £275,432 8.0%
Wychavon £297,372 £276,262 7.6%
Wyre £172,597 £153,439 12.5%
Wyre Forest £221,782 £200,115 10.8%
York £274,112 £257,829 6.3%
England £274,615 £249,121 10.2%

Average price by local authority for England

In March 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 £94,000.

3.2 Annual price change by London borough

Annual price change by London borough

London borough March 2021 March 2020 Difference
Barking and Dagenham £317,185 £300,166 5.7%
Barnet £534,005 £522,194 2.3%
Bexley £367,015 £339,110 8.2%
Brent £510,533 £467,597 9.2%
Bromley £463,226 £431,300 7.4%
Camden £796,442 £847,815 -6.1%
City of London £864,354 £847,240 2.0%
City of Westminster £927,993 £1,009,273 -8.1%
Croydon £385,345 £369,396 4.3%
Ealing £490,426 £479,008 2.4%
Enfield £428,257 £392,795 9.0%
Greenwich £416,306 £394,697 5.5%
Hackney £604,466 £577,649 4.6%
Hammersmith and Fulham £804,517 £719,974 11.7%
Haringey £607,029 £542,472 11.9%
Harrow £479,417 £450,637 6.4%
Havering £390,902 £364,650 7.2%
Hillingdon £419,408 £408,661 2.6%
Hounslow £423,197 £409,652 3.3%
Islington £682,485 £650,972 4.8%
Kensington and Chelsea £1,332,134 £1,337,948 -0.4%
Kingston upon Thames £511,318 £485,856 5.2%
Lambeth £530,046 £515,490 2.8%
Lewisham £432,500 £412,814 4.8%
Merton £557,445 £510,522 9.2%
Newham £378,862 £370,082 2.4%
Redbridge £454,415 £420,364 8.1%
Richmond upon Thames £690,985 £658,817 4.9%
Southwark £508,423 £498,502 2.0%
Sutton £395,397 £375,271 5.4%
Tower Hamlets £496,247 £477,971 3.8%
Waltham Forest £490,895 £436,083 12.6%
Wandsworth £598,279 £610,358 -2.0%

Average price by London borough

In March 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 £317,000.

3.3 Average price change by property type

Average price change by property type for England

Property type March 2021 March 2020 Difference
Detached £423,450 £378,553 11.9%
Semi-detached £259,186 £234,188 10.7%
Terraced £226,369 £202,000 12.1%
Flat or maisonette £235,439 £225,478 4.4%
All £274,615 £249,121 10.2%

4. Sales volumes

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

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

4.1 Sales volumes by local authority

Sales volumes for England by local authority

Local authorities January 2021 January 2020
Adur 85 70
Allerdale 87 120
Amber Valley 111 162
Arun 258 200
Ashfield 117 147
Ashford 157 142
Babergh 122 122
Barking and Dagenham 82 128
Barnet 292 242
Barnsley 235 244
Barrow-in-Furness 83 96
Basildon 179 181
Basingstoke and Deane 202 154
Bassetlaw 97 131
Bath and North East Somerset 190 221
Bedford 171 176
Bexley 246 206
Birmingham 666 878
Blaby 125 125
Blackburn with Darwen 116 114
Blackpool 105 164
Bolsover 75 92
Bolton 245 275
Boston 48 66
Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole 609 532
Bracknell Forest 119 174
Bradford 468 582
Braintree 172 161
Breckland 201 137
Brent 126 139
Brentwood 85 84
Brighton and Hove 307 281
Broadland 152 169
Bromley 374 378
Bromsgrove 95 109
Broxbourne 111 89
Broxtowe 105 108
Buckinghamshire 619 584
Burnley 90 104
Bury 174 188
Calderdale 236 233
Cambridge 86 95
Cambridgeshire 633 608
Camden 134 173
Cannock Chase 79 96
Canterbury 162 159
Carlisle 114 136
Castle Point 114 117
Central Bedfordshire 317 374
Charnwood 190 173
Chelmsford 195 181
Cheltenham 173 149
Cherwell 163 170
Cheshire East 492 493
Cheshire West and Chester 373 367
Chesterfield 97 125
Chichester 180 155
Chorley 125 145
City of Bristol 460 533
City of Derby 178 230
City of Kingston upon Hull 201 253
City of London 9 7
City of Nottingham 232 262
City of Peterborough 147 196
City of Plymouth 249 288
City of Westminster 147 188
Colchester 223 224
Copeland 63 63
Corby 57 84
Cornwall 639 681
Cotswold 113 106
County Durham 486 591
Coventry 244 329
Craven 59 77
Crawley 91 97
Croydon 297 306
Cumbria 550 625
Dacorum 151 169
Darlington 146 127
Dartford 130 115
Daventry 95 80
Derbyshire 738 930
Derbyshire Dales 71 79
Devon 1,091 966
Doncaster 257 311
Dorset 493 419
Dover 165 133
Dudley 285 357
Ealing 178 220
East Cambridgeshire 84 75
East Devon 223 207
East Hampshire 179 103
East Hertfordshire 185 145
East Lindsey 169 189
East Northamptonshire 92 88
East Riding of Yorkshire 434 479
East Staffordshire 94 137
East Suffolk 285 284
East Sussex 696 641
Eastbourne 114 105
Eastleigh 165 214
Eden 55 62
Elmbridge 217 171
Enfield 196 178
Epping Forest 152 134
Epsom and Ewell 94 86
Erewash 116 143
Essex 1,690 1,616
Exeter 125 130
Fareham 165 124
Fenland 97 114
Folkestone and Hythe 161 148
Forest of Dean 83 89
Fylde 92 101
Gateshead 178 200
Gedling 140 159
Gloucester 113 157
Gloucestershire 663 750
Gosport 99 91
Gravesham 126 88
Great Yarmouth 124 102
Greenwich 205 206
Guildford 157 139
Hackney 142 174
Halton 94 124
Hambleton 92 99
Hammersmith and Fulham 137 178
Hampshire 1,761 1,466
Harborough 93 107
Haringey 168 148
Harlow 69 74
Harrogate 185 182
Harrow 142 185
Hart 126 113
Hartlepool 89 86
Hastings 103 110
Havant 141 122
Havering 262 257
Herefordshire 189 200
Hertfordshire 1,261 1,188
Hertsmere 101 124
High Peak 97 102
Hillingdon 193 248
Hinckley and Bosworth 128 122
Horsham 190 160
Hounslow 142 183
Huntingdonshire 212 177
Hyndburn 74 115
Ipswich 113 113
Isle of Wight 195 202
Islington 110 120
Kensington and Chelsea 107 147
Kent 1,881 1,711
Kettering 102 106
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk 173 181
Kingston upon Thames 163 139
Kirklees 325 428
Knowsley 105 162
Lambeth 223 220
Lancashire 1,177 1,447
Lancaster 140 172
Leeds 729 916
Leicester 180 215
Leicestershire 734 774
Lewes 126 117
Lewisham 216 230
Lichfield 105 97
Lincoln 67 104
Lincolnshire 772 856
Liverpool 367 458
Luton 155 166
Maidstone 197 208
Maldon 85 63
Malvern Hills 84 96
Manchester 314 498
Mansfield 81 139
Medway 303 302
Melton 37 54
Mendip 128 117
Merton 170 180
Mid Devon 119 85
Mid Suffolk 141 116
Mid Sussex 190 197
Middlesbrough 113 142
Milton Keynes 273 304
Mole Valley 123 90
New Forest 290 180
Newark and Sherwood 112 132
Newcastle upon Tyne 230 289
Newcastle-under-Lyme 138 149
Newham 121 130
Norfolk 1,125 1,075
North Devon 148 142
North East Derbyshire 73 104
North East Lincolnshire 148 159
North Hertfordshire 161 116
North Kesteven 126 138
North Lincolnshire 171 188
North Norfolk 168 166
North Somerset 296 261
North Tyneside 205 205
North Warwickshire 63 66
North West Leicestershire 106 136
North Yorkshire 661 726
Northampton 232 255
Northamptonshire 771 805
Northumberland 289 375
Norwich 137 141
Nottinghamshire 789 945
Nuneaton and Bedworth 110 180
Oadby and Wigston 55 57
Oldham 170 238
Oxford 104 92
Oxfordshire 733 687
Pendle 83 117
Portsmouth 206 204
Preston 97 139
Reading 159 175
Redbridge 190 187
Redcar and Cleveland 117 137
Redditch 64 85
Reigate and Banstead 204 176
Ribble Valley 57 88
Richmond upon Thames 234 208
Richmondshire 50 49
Rochdale 141 176
Rochford 90 105
Rossendale 86 78
Rother 143 124
Rotherham 232 232
Rugby 88 146
Runnymede 96 92
Rushcliffe 137 129
Rushmoor 77 109
Rutland 34 32
Ryedale 51 57
Salford 205 284
Sandwell 191 218
Scarborough 132 168
Sedgemoor 130 128
Sefton 248 322
Selby 92 94
Sevenoaks 141 104
Sheffield 435 544
Shropshire 373 316
Slough 82 85
Solihull 239 224
Somerset 611 643
Somerset West and Taunton 148 176
South Cambridgeshire 154 147
South Derbyshire 98 123
South Gloucestershire 287 276
South Hams 148 116
South Holland 118 93
South Kesteven 145 162
South Lakeland 148 148
South Norfolk 170 179
South Northamptonshire 129 108
South Oxfordshire 181 160
South Ribble 124 126
South Somerset 205 222
South Staffordshire 103 97
South Tyneside 106 124
Southampton 160 198
Southend-on-Sea 190 219
Southwark 185 183
Spelthorne 101 88
St Albans 182 168
St Helens 157 162
Stafford 150 158
Staffordshire 824 932
Staffordshire Moorlands 89 99
Stevenage 82 96
Stockport 341 347
Stockton-on-Tees 167 213
Stoke-on-Trent 229 249
Stratford-on-Avon 137 146
Stroud 102 126
Suffolk 826 838
Sunderland 215 244
Surrey 1,514 1,257
Surrey Heath 119 90
Sutton 196 209
Swale 153 162
Swindon 237 241
Tameside 208 203
Tamworth 66 99
Tandridge 106 83
Teignbridge 176 145
Telford and Wrekin 143 174
Tendring 206 219
Test Valley 149 132
Tewkesbury 79 123
Thanet 182 195
Three Rivers 88 104
Thurrock 148 205
Tonbridge and Malling 143 147
Torbay 170 198
Torridge 94 81
Tower Hamlets 155 289
Trafford 249 246
Tunbridge Wells 164 110
Uttlesford 120 73
Vale of White Horse 178 150
Wakefield 275 357
Walsall 185 287
Waltham Forest 219 201
Wandsworth 337 340
Warrington 181 233
Warwick 185 164
Warwickshire 583 702
Watford 92 85
Waverley 179 143
Wealden 210 185
Wellingborough 64 84
Welwyn Hatfield 108 92
West Berkshire 204 140
West Devon 58 60
West Lancashire 94 127
West Lindsey 99 104
West Oxfordshire 107 115
West Suffolk 165 203
West Sussex 1,158 1,019
Wigan 272 350
Wiltshire 513 556
Winchester 168 124
Windsor and Maidenhead 153 143
Wirral 332 319
Woking 118 99
Wokingham 200 169
Wolverhampton 160 212
Worcester 143 105
Worcestershire 615 614
Worthing 164 140
Wychavon 142 117
Wyre 115 135
Wyre Forest 87 102
York 212 186
England 53,323 56,603

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

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for January 2020 with the provisional estimate for January 2021, volume transactions increased by 5.7% in England.

UK Property Transaction Statistics published by HM Revenue & Customs (which differ in coverage but are more complete for this period) report that on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, volume transactions increased by 17.8% in England in the year to January 2021.

4.2 Sales volumes by London borough

Sales volumes by London borough

London borough January 2021 January 2020
Barking and Dagenham 82 128
Barnet 292 242
Bexley 246 206
Brent 126 139
Bromley 374 378
Camden 134 173
City of London 9 7
City of Westminster 147 188
Croydon 297 306
Ealing 178 220
Enfield 196 178
Greenwich 205 206
Hackney 142 174
Hammersmith and Fulham 137 178
Haringey 168 148
Harrow 142 185
Havering 262 257
Hillingdon 193 248
Hounslow 142 183
Islington 110 120
Kensington and Chelsea 107 147
Kingston upon Thames 163 139
Lambeth 223 220
Lewisham 216 230
Merton 170 180
Newham 121 130
Redbridge 190 187
Richmond upon Thames 234 208
Southwark 185 183
Sutton 196 209
Tower Hamlets 155 289
Waltham Forest 219 201
Wandsworth 337 340

Note: The number of property transactions for January 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
January 2017 57,498
January 2018 57,138
January 2019 54,134
January 2020 56,603
January 2021 53,323

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for January 2020 with the provisional estimate for January 2021, volume transactions increased by 5.7% in England.

UK Property Transaction Statistics published by HM Revenue & Customs (which differ in coverage but are more complete for this period) report that on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, volume transactions increased by 17.8% in England in the year to January 2021.

4.4 Sales volumes for London

Sales volumes for London over the past 5 years

Date Sales volumes for London
January 2017 6,931
January 2018 6,584
January 2019 6,031
January 2020 6,527
January 2021 6,098

5. Property status

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

New build and existing resold property for England by region

Region Average new build January 2021 Average existing January 2021 New build monthly change Existing monthly change New build annual change Existing annual change
London £499,921 £505,448 1.0% 0.7% -1.1% 6.9%
North East £202,677 £136,096 0.9% 0.6% 6.4% 11.2%
East Midlands £281,812 £207,160 0.6% 0.1% 4.2% 9.3%
East of England £377,089 £304,312 0.8% 0.1% 2.1% 7.5%
North West £239,609 £179,358 -0.6% -0.6% 5.8% 11.4%
South East £390,275 £339,990 0.3% 0.3% 1.4% 7.1%
South West £321,617 £276,285 0.4% -0.3% 3.6% 8.9%
West Midlands £282,498 £210,628 -0.4% -0.6% 1.6% 7.2%
Yorkshire and The Humber £225,640 £179,230 0.8% 0.8% 5.7% 11.0%
England £323,339 £264,658 0.4% 0.1% 3.0% 8.8%

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

6. Buyer status

First time buyer and former owner occupier for England by region

Region Average first time buyer price March 2021 Average former owner occupier price March 2021 First time buyer monthly change Former owner occupier monthly change First time buyer annual change Former owner occupier annual change
London £433,018 £572,945 0.5% 1.7% 2.7% 5.0%
North East £124,525 £167,061 2.7% 3.3% 13.1% 14.4%
East Midlands £184,092 £249,578 1.4% 2.2% 11.6% 13.1%
East of England £259,630 £358,397 0.7% 1.6% 8.3% 10.4%
North West £157,807 £214,185 0.9% 1.4% 12.3% 13.4%
South East £276,435 £407,072 0.6% 1.2% 7.0% 8.7%
South West £235,167 £326,297 2.5% 2.7% 10.0% 11.6%
West Midlands £183,556 £254,381 1.6% 2.1% 10.3% 11.1%
Yorkshire and The Humber £161,082 £212,965 3.3% 3.6% 13.6% 14.5%
England £228,518 £314,160 1.4% 2.0% 9.4% 11.1%

7. Funding status

Cash and mortgage indicator for England by region

Region Average cash price March 2021 Average mortgage price March 2021 Cash monthly change Mortgage monthly change Cash annual change Mortgage annual change
London £522,332 £493,489 2.3% 0.7% 3.1% 3.8%
North East £134,114 £152,629 3.1% 2.9% 13.8% 13.7%
East Midlands £211,983 £223,877 2.0% 1.8% 12.5% 12.3%
East of England £299,900 £322,591 0.8% 1.3% 9.5% 9.3%
North West £171,994 £196,387 1.1% 1.2% 12.3% 13.0%
South East £333,549 £356,202 0.9% 0.9% 8.1% 7.8%
South West £283,977 £289,980 2.4% 2.7% 10.9% 10.8%
West Midlands £210,078 £225,904 1.6% 1.9% 10.0% 10.9%
Yorkshire and The Humber £180,160 £192,814 3.2% 3.5% 13.4% 14.3%
England £258,370 £282,815 1.8% 1.7% 10.4% 10.2%

8. Repossession sales volumes

Due to a period of 2 weeks to 2 months between completion and registration of sales, volume figures for the most recent 2 months are not yet complete, so they are not included in the report.

Repossession sales volumes by government office region

Region Sales volume January 2021
East Midlands 8
East of England 5
London 23
North East 25
North West 34
South East 30
South West 5
West Midlands 15
Yorkshire and The Humber 28
England 173

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