Accredited official statistics

UK House Price Index England: February 2022

Published 13 April 2022

1. Headline statistics for February 2022

The average price of a property in England was £295,888

The annual price change of a property in England was 10.7%

The monthly price change of a property in England was 0.9%

The index figure for England (January 2015 = 100) was 145.9

Estimates for the most recent months are provisional and are likely to be updated as more data is incorporated into the index. Read the revision policies.

Next publication of UK HPI

The March 2022 UK HPI will be published at 9.30am on Wednesday 18 May 2022. See the calendar of release dates for more information.

2. Economic statement

England house prices grew by 10.7% in the year to February 2022, up from 10.0% in January 2022. The South West and East of England were the fastest growing regions with annual growth of 12.5% in the year to February 2022. The lowest annual growth was in London, where prices increased by 8.1% over the year to February 2022.

On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, average house prices in England increased by 0.9% between January and February 2022, compared with an increase of 0.2% during the same period a year earlier (January and February 2021). On a seasonally adjusted basis, average house prices in England increased by 1.0% between January and February 2022.

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for December with the provisional estimate for December 2021, the volume of transactions decreased by 52.5% in England. The UK volume of transactions decreased by 47.1% 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, the volume of transactions decreased by 17.1% in England in the year to December 2021.

Across England, detached houses showed the largest increase out of all property types, growing by 14.4% in the year to February 2022 to £469,000. The lowest annual change was in flats and maisonettes which increased by 7.8% in the year to February 2022 to £250,000.

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 10.7% in the year to February 2022, up from 10.0% in January 2022. In London, average house prices increased by 8.1% in the year to February 2022, up from 3.8% in January 2022.

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.

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

Local authorities February 2022 February 2021 Difference
Adur £365,414 £334,679 9.2%
Allerdale £182,516 £168,348 8.4%
Amber Valley £217,778 £199,302 9.3%
Arun £348,880 £303,403 15.0%
Ashfield £180,018 £159,892 12.6%
Ashford £356,861 £310,765 14.8%
Babergh £358,191 £301,086 19.0%
Barking and Dagenham £341,190 £314,920 8.3%
Barnet £588,081 £539,250 9.1%
Barnsley £152,552 £140,273 8.8%
Barrow-in-Furness £134,512 £128,718 4.5%
Basildon £354,851 £329,519 7.7%
Basingstoke and Deane £353,585 £308,935 14.5%
Bassetlaw £195,038 £173,669 12.3%
Bath and North East Somerset £419,963 £366,831 14.5%
Bedford £338,877 £297,496 13.9%
Bexley £390,502 £358,118 9.0%
Birmingham £217,659 £202,761 7.3%
Blaby £288,416 £246,465 17.0%
Blackburn with Darwen £138,380 £124,336 11.3%
Blackpool £131,549 £114,682 14.7%
Bolsover £159,284 £152,821 4.2%
Bolton £169,773 £153,158 10.8%
Boston £184,649 £163,132 13.2%
Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole £324,246 £298,202 8.7%
Bracknell Forest £383,821 £342,390 12.1%
Bradford £164,437 £155,596 5.7%
Braintree £337,304 £297,062 13.5%
Breckland £275,713 £245,277 12.4%
Brent £525,541 £506,770 3.7%
Brentwood £465,674 £439,101 6.1%
Brighton and Hove £422,515 £388,610 8.7%
Broadland £333,202 £278,677 19.6%
Bromley £489,633 £452,733 8.2%
Bromsgrove £338,448 £307,469 10.1%
Broxbourne £371,081 £357,632 3.8%
Broxtowe £226,554 £211,455 7.1%
Buckinghamshire £467,599 £417,365 12.0%
Burnley £112,088 £97,626 14.8%
Bury £219,755 £203,118 8.2%
Calderdale £174,777 £158,281 10.4%
Cambridge £494,873 £452,314 9.4%
Cambridgeshire £347,036 £305,383 13.6%
Camden £870,732 £795,318 9.5%
Cannock Chase £209,882 £188,867 11.1%
Canterbury £354,480 £319,505 10.9%
Carlisle £161,180 £140,208 15.0%
Castle Point £374,324 £326,132 14.8%
Central Bedfordshire £367,548 £316,682 16.1%
Charnwood £268,870 £245,450 9.5%
Chelmsford £377,275 £346,998 8.7%
Cheltenham £331,528 £298,780 11.0%
Cherwell £366,478 £307,241 19.3%
Cheshire East £272,475 £252,353 8.0%
Cheshire West and Chester £245,177 £227,670 7.7%
Chesterfield £185,216 £171,520 8.0%
Chichester £458,797 £405,795 13.1%
Chorley £221,349 £197,192 12.3%
City of Bristol £334,010 £308,707 8.2%
City of Derby £188,288 £175,669 7.2%
City of Kingston upon Hull £127,783 £118,928 7.4%
City of London £839,698 £727,872 15.4%
City of Nottingham £174,536 £162,189 7.6%
City of Peterborough £228,317 £202,085 13.0%
City of Plymouth £207,770 £186,781 11.2%
City of Westminster £1,032,369 £940,207 9.8%
Colchester £307,894 £273,874 12.4%
Copeland £140,893 £134,098 5.1%
Cornwall £304,637 £264,089 15.4%
Cotswold £450,542 £405,384 11.1%
County Durham £122,712 £111,948 9.6%
Coventry £219,571 £197,068 11.4%
Craven £265,831 £228,668 16.3%
Crawley £314,181 £281,434 11.6%
Croydon £405,910 £383,398 5.9%
Cumbria £187,130 £170,225 9.9%
Dacorum £447,312 £426,519 4.9%
Darlington £150,615 £136,526 10.3%
Dartford £353,915 £317,867 11.3%
Derbyshire £219,319 £200,268 9.5%
Derbyshire Dales £320,440 £298,789 7.2%
Devon £324,394 £282,008 15.0%
Doncaster £155,668 £143,448 8.5%
Dorset £347,388 £307,831 12.9%
Dover £314,773 £275,490 14.3%
Dudley £215,751 £196,760 9.7%
Ealing £531,575 £497,789 6.8%
East Cambridgeshire £348,482 £294,120 18.5%
East Devon £342,662 £305,040 12.3%
East Hampshire £430,466 £393,672 9.3%
East Hertfordshire £442,886 £409,010 8.3%
East Lindsey £223,119 £190,134 17.3%
East Riding of Yorkshire £213,194 £198,211 7.6%
East Staffordshire £221,497 £195,773 13.1%
East Suffolk £295,143 £261,256 13.0%
East Sussex £344,709 £302,356 14.0%
Eastbourne £296,462 £258,057 14.9%
Eastleigh £334,252 £292,637 14.2%
Eden £251,107 £218,086 15.1%
Elmbridge £691,405 £641,421 7.8%
Enfield £436,832 £420,566 3.9%
Epping Forest £534,620 £479,525 11.5%
Epsom and Ewell £521,926 £484,892 7.6%
Erewash £196,404 £182,452 7.6%
Essex £365,229 £326,857 11.7%
Exeter £313,876 £273,165 14.9%
Fareham £345,111 £306,384 12.6%
Fenland £231,447 £200,855 15.2%
Folkestone and Hythe £324,917 £275,357 18.0%
Forest of Dean £293,692 £272,601 7.7%
Fylde £217,891 £210,049 3.7%
Gateshead £142,094 £137,701 3.2%
Gedling £234,205 £211,454 10.8%
Gloucester £237,065 £215,398 10.1%
Gloucestershire £316,936 £287,839 10.1%
Gosport £248,477 £216,692 14.7%
Gravesham £329,701 £288,727 14.2%
Great Yarmouth £213,316 £185,596 14.9%
Greenwich £426,088 £407,621 4.5%
Guildford £505,255 £475,473 6.3%
Hackney £631,759 £596,905 5.8%
Halton £173,491 £157,188 10.4%
Hambleton £278,696 £253,929 9.8%
Hammersmith and Fulham £769,603 £702,193 9.6%
Hampshire £369,076 £327,314 12.8%
Harborough £366,755 £315,930 16.1%
Haringey £595,978 £582,739 2.3%
Harlow £319,033 £276,899 15.2%
Harrogate £324,854 £303,330 7.1%
Harrow £531,130 £481,157 10.4%
Hart £442,939 £420,953 5.2%
Hartlepool £132,100 £117,481 12.4%
Hastings £272,752 £233,308 16.9%
Havant £314,494 £281,959 11.5%
Havering £415,336 £384,365 8.1%
Herefordshire £296,651 £257,681 15.1%
Hertfordshire £443,102 £413,656 7.1%
Hertsmere £521,957 £486,899 7.2%
High Peak £246,145 £221,148 11.3%
Hillingdon £450,825 £427,817 5.4%
Hinckley and Bosworth £273,369 £240,334 13.7%
Horsham £435,981 £384,445 13.4%
Hounslow £445,380 £422,386 5.4%
Huntingdonshire £303,154 £267,673 13.3%
Hyndburn £123,744 £103,836 19.2%
Ipswich £223,259 £208,705 7.0%
Isle of Wight £280,802 £245,832 14.2%
Islington £697,031 £680,188 2.5%
Kensington and Chelsea £1,382,760 £1,251,354 10.5%
Kent £351,333 £311,807 12.7%
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk £256,696 £232,810 10.3%
Kingston upon Thames £525,787 £500,783 5.0%
Kirklees £181,831 £167,328 8.7%
Knowsley £162,954 £144,781 12.6%
Lambeth £534,275 £530,521 0.7%
Lancashire £175,727 £159,890 9.9%
Lancaster £185,731 £170,923 8.7%
Leeds £227,280 £207,726 9.4%
Leicester £221,091 £198,218 11.5%
Leicestershire £283,806 £251,120 13.0%
Lewes £410,435 £340,185 20.7%
Lewisham £435,846 £444,558 -2.0%
Lichfield £304,248 £274,724 10.7%
Lincoln £176,679 £161,729 9.2%
Lincolnshire £225,504 £198,181 13.8%
Liverpool £170,711 £155,622 9.7%
Luton £272,201 £241,166 12.9%
Maidstone £345,429 £299,181 15.5%
Maldon £401,988 £348,233 15.4%
Malvern Hills £320,080 £290,148 10.3%
Manchester £214,886 £204,785 4.9%
Mansfield £166,730 £152,347 9.4%
Medway £288,403 £256,754 12.3%
Melton £267,395 £255,496 4.7%
Mendip £318,028 £287,836 10.5%
Merton £563,419 £542,900 3.8%
Mid Devon £303,740 £260,478 16.6%
Mid Suffolk £318,708 £287,221 11.0%
Mid Sussex £448,707 £389,361 15.2%
Middlesbrough £135,756 £124,289 9.2%
Milton Keynes £307,880 £271,433 13.4%
Mole Valley £527,057 £510,709 3.2%
New Forest £410,708 £359,340 14.3%
Newark and Sherwood £219,340 £202,326 8.4%
Newcastle upon Tyne £183,710 £168,696 8.9%
Newcastle-under-Lyme £188,553 £169,764 11.1%
Newham £409,526 £389,643 5.1%
Norfolk £276,574 £244,900 12.9%
North Devon £331,091 £266,900 24.1%
North East Derbyshire £236,262 £211,179 11.9%
North East Lincolnshire £144,297 £132,600 8.8%
North Hertfordshire £390,528 £356,001 9.7%
North Kesteven £253,222 £225,556 12.3%
North Lincolnshire £175,608 £161,266 8.9%
North Norfolk £318,620 £281,322 13.3%
North Northamptonshire £252,488 £223,602 12.9%
North Somerset £317,741 £282,357 12.5%
North Tyneside £181,917 £176,114 3.3%
North Warwickshire £248,989 £224,043 11.1%
North West Leicestershire £259,556 £227,127 14.3%
North Yorkshire £269,005 £241,310 11.5%
Northumberland £183,831 £170,788 7.6%
Norwich £227,108 £210,957 7.7%
Nottinghamshire £219,485 £198,309 10.7%
Nuneaton and Bedworth £223,467 £192,337 16.2%
Oadby and Wigston £272,108 £237,188 14.7%
Oldham £180,063 £158,601 13.5%
Oxford £475,196 £431,699 10.1%
Oxfordshire £423,257 £374,948 12.9%
Pendle £120,374 £115,349 4.4%
Portsmouth £238,690 £221,888 7.6%
Preston £147,117 £139,328 5.6%
Reading £306,724 £297,578 3.1%
Redbridge £477,872 £448,298 6.6%
Redcar and Cleveland £148,676 £134,421 10.6%
Redditch £249,367 £224,065 11.3%
Reigate and Banstead £473,196 £431,889 9.6%
Ribble Valley £275,755 £233,749 18.0%
Richmond upon Thames £765,107 £675,612 13.2%
Richmondshire £254,577 £232,505 9.5%
Rochdale £175,409 £156,981 11.7%
Rochford £393,154 £357,852 9.9%
Rossendale £177,746 £162,472 9.4%
Rother £355,402 £324,625 9.5%
Rotherham £169,414 £156,556 8.2%
Rugby £287,343 £254,203 13.0%
Runnymede £472,073 £430,930 9.5%
Rushcliffe £343,171 £301,755 13.7%
Rushmoor £323,601 £290,951 11.2%
Rutland £355,579 £333,017 6.8%
Ryedale £295,187 £263,733 11.9%
Salford £203,773 £183,145 11.3%
Sandwell £182,931 £166,322 10.0%
Scarborough £212,856 £182,274 16.8%
Sedgemoor £276,728 £249,164 11.1%
Sefton £204,253 £185,173 10.3%
Selby £246,261 £222,831 10.5%
Sevenoaks £505,150 £449,543 12.4%
Sheffield £200,264 £188,590 6.2%
Shropshire £267,408 £236,754 12.9%
Slough £295,768 £299,791 -1.3%
Solihull £318,192 £296,751 7.2%
Somerset £289,637 £258,413 12.1%
Somerset West and Taunton £290,359 £253,158 14.7%
South Cambridgeshire £444,358 £392,699 13.2%
South Derbyshire £240,735 £211,033 14.1%
South Gloucestershire £326,360 £291,114 12.1%
South Hams £387,058 £347,974 11.2%
South Holland £237,369 £198,363 19.7%
South Kesteven £258,703 £234,977 10.1%
South Lakeland £289,851 £263,383 10.0%
South Norfolk £319,992 £283,755 12.8%
South Oxfordshire £494,808 £448,856 10.2%
South Ribble £201,608 £180,676 11.6%
South Somerset £281,754 £252,340 11.7%
South Staffordshire £285,855 £261,499 9.3%
South Tyneside £150,007 £140,768 6.6%
Southampton £241,044 £214,530 12.4%
Southend-on-Sea £328,422 £304,018 8.0%
Southwark £526,301 £530,800 -0.8%
Spelthorne £403,068 £376,925 6.9%
St Albans £575,640 £534,626 7.7%
St Helens £165,238 £145,757 13.4%
Stafford £246,810 £223,699 10.3%
Staffordshire £234,135 £211,166 10.9%
Staffordshire Moorlands £212,892 £202,970 4.9%
Stevenage £307,937 £282,943 8.8%
Stockport £279,483 £255,222 9.5%
Stockton-on-Tees £151,756 £142,390 6.6%
Stoke-on-Trent £135,799 £123,457 10.0%
Stratford-on-Avon £360,369 £335,966 7.3%
Stroud £337,675 £295,863 14.1%
Suffolk £292,565 £261,066 12.1%
Sunderland £140,046 £123,542 13.4%
Surrey £502,872 £465,927 7.9%
Surrey Heath £437,582 £402,825 8.6%
Sutton £426,963 £395,308 8.0%
Swale £289,112 £264,357 9.4%
Swindon £251,570 £225,254 11.7%
Tameside £197,494 £169,924 16.2%
Tamworth £230,974 £199,102 16.0%
Tandridge £500,792 £472,063 6.1%
Teignbridge £308,782 £269,920 14.4%
Telford and Wrekin £209,474 £184,052 13.8%
Tendring £267,953 £234,511 14.3%
Test Valley £396,995 £339,035 17.1%
Tewkesbury £316,986 £300,333 5.5%
Thanet £296,725 £263,959 12.4%
Three Rivers £578,764 £527,659 9.7%
Thurrock £311,786 £286,972 8.6%
Tonbridge and Malling £415,504 £376,974 10.2%
Torbay £248,892 £213,761 16.4%
Torridge £299,784 £248,918 20.4%
Tower Hamlets £471,029 £467,062 0.8%
Trafford £351,259 £324,654 8.2%
Tunbridge Wells £444,461 £405,510 9.6%
Uttlesford £472,635 £419,530 12.7%
Vale of White Horse £411,158 £370,531 11.0%
Wakefield £182,680 £164,333 11.2%
Walsall £198,258 £182,954 8.4%
Waltham Forest £487,747 £479,721 1.7%
Wandsworth £630,094 £596,619 5.6%
Warrington £245,588 £215,461 14.0%
Warwick £354,373 £325,717 8.8%
Warwickshire £300,320 £269,839 11.3%
Watford £371,138 £363,393 2.1%
Waverley £531,262 £473,638 12.2%
Wealden £401,153 £360,189 11.4%
Welwyn Hatfield £434,248 £401,564 8.1%
West Berkshire £400,134 £358,881 11.5%
West Devon £294,857 £271,858 8.5%
West Lancashire £214,306 £202,523 5.8%
West Lindsey £213,244 £185,140 15.2%
West Northamptonshire £283,538 £257,467 10.1%
West Oxfordshire £385,555 £339,424 13.6%
West Suffolk £303,704 £272,503 11.4%
West Sussex £385,554 £338,740 13.8%
Wigan £170,154 £150,877 12.8%
Wiltshire £320,695 £292,830 9.5%
Winchester £492,662 £435,399 13.2%
Windsor and Maidenhead £537,778 £489,447 9.9%
Wirral £195,295 £182,117 7.2%
Woking £453,301 £426,296 6.3%
Wokingham £480,865 £428,104 12.3%
Wolverhampton £187,538 £168,813 11.1%
Worcester £241,145 £218,908 10.2%
Worcestershire £283,657 £256,017 10.8%
Worthing £338,856 £291,711 16.2%
Wychavon £320,332 £293,063 9.3%
Wyre £180,974 £163,239 10.9%
Wyre Forest £243,056 £211,732 14.8%
York £302,940 £270,685 11.9%
England £295,888 £267,192 10.7%

Average price by local authority for England

In February 2022, the most expensive area to purchase a property was Kensington and Chelsea, where the average cost was £1.4 million. In contrast, the cheapest area to purchase a property was Burnley, where the average cost was £112,000.

3.2 Annual price change by London borough

London borough February 2022 February 2021 Difference
Barking and Dagenham £341,190 £314,920 8.3%
Barnet £588,081 £539,250 9.1%
Bexley £390,502 £358,118 9.0%
Brent £525,541 £506,770 3.7%
Bromley £489,633 £452,733 8.2%
Camden £870,732 £795,318 9.5%
City of London £839,698 £727,872 15.4%
City of Westminster £1,032,369 £940,207 9.8%
Croydon £405,910 £383,398 5.9%
Ealing £531,575 £497,789 6.8%
Enfield £436,832 £420,566 3.9%
Greenwich £426,088 £407,621 4.5%
Hackney £631,759 £596,905 5.8%
Hammersmith and Fulham £769,603 £702,193 9.6%
Haringey £595,978 £582,739 2.3%
Harrow £531,130 £481,157 10.4%
Havering £415,336 £384,365 8.1%
Hillingdon £450,825 £427,817 5.4%
Hounslow £445,380 £422,386 5.4%
Islington £697,031 £680,188 2.5%
Kensington and Chelsea £1,382,760 £1,251,354 10.5%
Kingston upon Thames £525,787 £500,783 5.0%
Lambeth £534,275 £530,521 0.7%
Lewisham £435,846 £444,558 -2.0%
Merton £563,419 £542,900 3.8%
Newham £409,526 £389,643 5.1%
Redbridge £477,872 £448,298 6.6%
Richmond upon Thames £765,107 £675,612 13.2%
Southwark £526,301 £530,800 -0.8%
Sutton £426,963 £395,308 8.0%
Tower Hamlets £471,029 £467,062 0.8%
Waltham Forest £487,747 £479,721 1.7%
Wandsworth £630,094 £596,619 5.6%

Average price by London borough

In February 2022, the most expensive borough to purchase a property was Kensington and Chelsea, where the average cost was £1.4 million. In contrast, the cheapest borough to purchase a property was Barking and Dagenham, where the average cost was £341,000.

3.3 Average price change by property type

Average price change by property type for England

Property type February 2022 February 2021 Difference
Detached £469,095 £409,913 14.4%
Semi-detached £281,313 £252,729 11.3%
Terraced £238,145 £219,068 8.7%
Flat or maisonette £250,047 £231,972 7.8%
All £295,888 £267,192 10.7%

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 2021 December 2020
Adur 44 104
Allerdale 69 150
Amber Valley 95 196
Arun 124 320
Ashfield 86 166
Ashford 65 246
Babergh 69 179
Barking and Dagenham 61 143
Barnet 147 446
Barnsley 152 363
Barrow-in-Furness 52 111
Basildon 101 240
Basingstoke and Deane 119 361
Bassetlaw 93 202
Bath and North East Somerset 115 290
Bedford 106 322
Bexley 118 315
Birmingham 501 1,077
Blaby 60 210
Blackburn with Darwen 110 217
Blackpool 140 199
Bolsover 53 108
Bolton 173 381
Boston 35 102
Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole 322 782
Bracknell Forest 86 226
Bradford 362 707
Braintree 113 306
Breckland 86 251
Brent 60 197
Brentwood 41 143
Brighton and Hove 202 448
Broadland 80 280
Bromley 212 534
Bromsgrove 57 181
Broxbourne 73 136
Broxtowe 64 185
Buckinghamshire 337 965
Burnley 95 136
Bury 127 255
Calderdale 165 341
Cambridge 53 139
Cambridgeshire 413 1,067
Camden 77 163
Cannock Chase 55 170
Canterbury 95 324
Carlisle 106 230
Castle Point 57 145
Central Bedfordshire 200 572
Charnwood 99 316
Chelmsford 106 324
Cheltenham 96 228
Cherwell 111 266
Cheshire East 283 826
Cheshire West and Chester 219 567
Chesterfield 71 152
Chichester 69 243
Chorley 87 229
City of Bristol 283 659
City of Derby 144 307
City of Kingston upon Hull 140 283
City of London 5 8
City of Nottingham 123 292
City of Peterborough 93 288
City of Plymouth 221 377
City of Westminster 76 199
Colchester 126 341
Copeland 56 119
Cornwall 406 1,205
Cotswold 55 222
County Durham 397 846
Coventry 193 394
Craven 39 127
Crawley 69 115
Croydon 189 431
Cumbria 415 988
Dacorum 113 240
Darlington 76 184
Dartford 71 199
Derbyshire 557 1,350
Derbyshire Dales 43 157
Devon 572 1,852
Doncaster 225 451
Dorset 268 838
Dover 91 225
Dudley 188 381
Ealing 109 267
East Cambridgeshire 53 143
East Devon 138 370
East Hampshire 96 221
East Hertfordshire 108 271
East Lindsey 112 281
East Riding of Yorkshire 247 699
East Staffordshire 76 187
East Suffolk 176 460
East Sussex 494 1,140
Eastbourne 108 193
Eastleigh 92 273
Eden 43 118
Elmbridge 94 273
Enfield 108 277
Epping Forest 71 216
Epsom and Ewell 46 118
Erewash 84 183
Essex 965 2,678
Exeter 64 235
Fareham 73 241
Fenland 68 185
Folkestone and Hythe 73 199
Forest of Dean 81 118
Fylde 71 172
Gateshead 122 261
Gedling 89 232
Gloucester 114 218
Gloucestershire 503 1,233
Gosport 43 114
Gravesham 45 125
Great Yarmouth 64 194
Greenwich 95 349
Guildford 94 218
Hackney 77 170
Halton 74 125
Hambleton 63 167
Hammersmith and Fulham 76 199
Hampshire 906 2,658
Harborough 74 224
Haringey 81 242
Harlow 54 117
Harrogate 115 312
Harrow 77 166
Hart 55 227
Hartlepool 68 135
Hastings 103 184
Havant 78 222
Havering 114 380
Herefordshire 125 320
Hertfordshire 710 1,818
Hertsmere 42 157
High Peak 67 182
Hillingdon 129 328
Hinckley and Bosworth 75 192
Horsham 86 318
Hounslow 78 221
Huntingdonshire 136 325
Hyndburn 58 132
Ipswich 101 203
Isle of Wight 123 314
Islington 74 261
Kensington and Chelsea 66 131
Kent 1,015 2,811
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk 131 273
Kingston upon Thames 91 222
Kirklees 250 676
Knowsley 91 168
Lambeth 141 403
Lancashire 993 2,130
Lancaster 113 250
Leeds 474 1,111
Leicester 135 227
Leicestershire 451 1,321
Lewes 70 206
Lewisham 153 372
Lichfield 58 206
Lincoln 57 114
Lincolnshire 528 1,315
Liverpool 243 511
Luton 88 192
Maidstone 109 351
Maldon 42 151
Malvern Hills 47 156
Manchester 203 564
Mansfield 75 185
Medway 168 394
Melton 40 98
Mendip 86 242
Merton 96 255
Mid Devon 60 172
Mid Suffolk 74 199
Mid Sussex 109 330
Middlesbrough 90 185
Milton Keynes 173 419
Mole Valley 55 171
New Forest 121 389
Newark and Sherwood 83 272
Newcastle upon Tyne 194 398
Newcastle-under-Lyme 76 191
Newham 81 228
Norfolk 601 1,722
North Devon 71 238
North East Derbyshire 56 168
North East Lincolnshire 111 252
North Hertfordshire 95 264
North Kesteven 99 215
North Lincolnshire 93 237
North Norfolk 65 254
North Northamptonshire 220 626
North Somerset 179 407
North Tyneside 137 333
North Warwickshire 38 108
North West Leicestershire 70 197
North Yorkshire 461 1,219
Northumberland 221 538
Norwich 89 210
Nottinghamshire 575 1,502
Nuneaton and Bedworth 88 217
Oadby and Wigston 33 84
Oldham 129 291
Oxford 53 115
Oxfordshire 390 1,168
Pendle 51 136
Portsmouth 128 305
Preston 94 189
Reading 89 218
Redbridge 92 223
Redcar and Cleveland 81 207
Redditch 49 118
Reigate and Banstead 103 280
Ribble Valley 54 155
Richmond upon Thames 106 299
Richmondshire 33 68
Rochdale 144 285
Rochford 64 156
Rossendale 78 102
Rother 97 217
Rotherham 135 401
Rugby 90 203
Runnymede 57 162
Rushcliffe 85 260
Rushmoor 49 124
Rutland 28 80
Ryedale 42 119
Salford 124 351
Sandwell 135 269
Scarborough 96 254
Sedgemoor 89 221
Sefton 205 439
Selby 73 172
Sevenoaks 82 185
Sheffield 281 757
Shropshire 243 605
Slough 59 86
Solihull 151 350
Somerset 386 1,139
Somerset West and Taunton 106 330
South Cambridgeshire 103 275
South Derbyshire 88 204
South Gloucestershire 165 469
South Hams 63 265
South Holland 60 179
South Kesteven 97 237
South Lakeland 89 260
South Norfolk 86 260
South Oxfordshire 88 275
South Ribble 98 193
South Somerset 105 346
South Staffordshire 71 166
South Tyneside 65 179
Southampton 128 306
Southend-on-Sea 127 319
Southwark 138 272
Spelthorne 61 171
St Albans 94 265
St Helens 119 231
Stafford 71 251
Staffordshire 515 1,497
Staffordshire Moorlands 58 190
Stevenage 47 90
Stockport 182 504
Stockton-on-Tees 99 292
Stoke-on-Trent 138 293
Stratford-on-Avon 82 318
Stroud 91 245
Suffolk 545 1,378
Sunderland 141 325
Surrey 787 2,123
Surrey Heath 73 150
Sutton 115 256
Swale 96 257
Swindon 193 373
Tameside 123 328
Tamworth 50 136
Tandridge 58 148
Teignbridge 96 308
Telford and Wrekin 116 322
Tendring 135 361
Test Valley 85 276
Tewkesbury 66 202
Thanet 122 237
Three Rivers 46 128
Thurrock 93 209
Tonbridge and Malling 78 235
Torbay 142 256
Torridge 46 156
Tower Hamlets 91 319
Trafford 110 395
Tunbridge Wells 88 228
Uttlesford 55 178
Vale of White Horse 67 263
Wakefield 210 492
Walsall 144 294
Waltham Forest 110 297
Wandsworth 222 628
Warrington 119 342
Warwick 104 244
Warwickshire 402 1,090
Watford 40 105
Waverley 87 236
Wealden 116 340
Welwyn Hatfield 52 162
West Berkshire 110 262
West Devon 34 108
West Lancashire 64 185
West Lindsey 68 187
West Northamptonshire 247 676
West Oxfordshire 71 249
West Suffolk 125 337
West Sussex 589 1,622
Wigan 211 487
Wiltshire 375 923
Winchester 95 210
Windsor and Maidenhead 85 233
Wirral 221 513
Woking 59 196
Wokingham 113 301
Wolverhampton 122 239
Worcester 69 155
Worcestershire 362 997
Worthing 88 192
Wychavon 81 233
Wyre 130 251
Wyre Forest 59 154
York 142 339
England 33,759 85,705

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

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

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for December 2020 with the provisional estimate for December 2021, volume transactions decreased by 52.5% 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 decreased by 17.1% in England in the year to December 2021.

4.2 Sales volumes by London borough

Sales volumes by London borough

London borough December 2021 December 2020
Barking and Dagenham 61 143
Barnet 147 446
Bexley 118 315
Brent 60 197
Bromley 212 534
Camden 77 163
City of London 5 8
City of Westminster 76 199
Croydon 189 431
Ealing 109 267
Enfield 108 277
Greenwich 95 349
Hackney 77 170
Hammersmith and Fulham 76 199
Haringey 81 242
Harrow 77 166
Havering 114 380
Hillingdon 129 328
Hounslow 78 221
Islington 74 261
Kensington and Chelsea 66 131
Kingston upon Thames 91 222
Lambeth 141 403
Lewisham 153 372
Merton 96 255
Newham 81 228
Redbridge 92 223
Richmond upon Thames 106 299
Southwark 138 272
Sutton 115 256
Tower Hamlets 91 319
Waltham Forest 110 297
Wandsworth 222 628

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

Note: The number of property transactions for December 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
December 2017 76,522
December 2018 69,841
December 2019 70,541
December 2020 85,705
December 2021 33,759

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for December 2020 with the provisional estimate for December 2021, volume transactions decreased by 52.5% 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 decreased by 17.1% in England in the year to December 2021.

4.4 Sales volumes for London

Sales volumes for London over the past 5 years

Date Sales volumes for London
December 2017 7,883
December 2018 6,957
December 2019 7,107
December 2020 9,201
December 2021 3,465

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 2021 Average existing December 2021 New build monthly change Existing monthly change New build annual change Existing annual change
London £538,154 £518,045 -1.3% 0.9% 10.7% 4.1%
North East £231,733 £142,776 -0.9% 0.7% 17.5% 5.9%
East Midlands £334,391 £223,269 -0.3% 0.6% 21.9% 8.7%
East of England £444,378 £328,319 -1.2% 0.3% 21.8% 9.2%
North West £282,102 £195,302 -0.8% 1.6% 19.3% 9.0%
South East £460,431 £369,476 -0.5% 1.3% 21.2% 9.8%
South West £386,752 £303,521 -0.7% 1.3% 23.3% 10.5%
West Midlands Region £336,321 £229,480 0.6% 2.3% 21.1% 9.0%
Yorkshire and The Humber £262,459 £190,525 -0.3% 1.3% 19.4% 7.5%
England £377,190 £284,762 -0.6% 1.2% 19.6% 8.5%

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 2022 Average former owner occupier price February 2022 First time buyer monthly change Former owner occupier monthly change First time buyer annual change Former owner occupier annual change
London £458,863 £606,934 2.6% 1.8% 7.5% 8.9%
North East £129,923 £175,130 1.3% 1.1% 8.6% 10.2%
East Midlands £196,719 £268,579 -0.7% -0.2% 9.9% 11.7%
East of England £284,105 £394,130 1.4% 1.3% 11.5% 13.4%
North West £170,653 £232,308 1.5% 1.7% 9.6% 10.8%
South East £300,373 £446,066 -0.3% -0.3% 11.0% 12.9%
South West £254,355 £356,165 1.0% 1.3% 11.5% 13.3%
West Midlands Region £196,894 £274,519 0.4% 0.3% 9.3% 10.7%
Yorkshire and The Humber £169,142 £224,904 1.1% 1.3% 8.9% 10.2%
England £245,411 £339,628 0.9% 0.9% 9.9% 11.6%

7. Funding status

Cash and mortgage indicator for England by region

Region Average cash price February 2022 Average mortgage price February 2022 Cash monthly change Mortgage monthly change Cash annual change Mortgage annual change
London £553,011 £522,773 3.1% 2.0% 9.2% 7.8%
North East £138,888 £160,283 1.1% 1.3% 8.7% 9.7%
East Midlands £226,547 £240,531 -0.2% -0.5% 10.7% 11.0%
East of England £327,200 £354,627 1.1% 1.4% 11.9% 12.7%
North West £185,568 £213,020 1.9% 1.5% 9.5% 10.5%
South East £362,918 £389,266 -0.4% -0.2% 11.6% 12.1%
South West £308,886 £315,135 1.4% 1.1% 12.3% 12.6%
West Midlands Region £225,448 £243,272 0.2% 0.4% 9.3% 10.2%
Yorkshire and The Humber £189,607 £203,101 1.6% 1.1% 9.2% 9.6%
England £277,617 £305,032 1.0% 0.9% 10.5% 10.8%

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 2021
East Midlands 5
London 5
North East 7
North West 15
South East 7
South West 1
West Midlands Region 5
Yorkshire and The Humber 6
England 51

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