Accredited official statistics

UK House Price Index England: May 2022

Published 20 July 2022

1. Headline statistics for May 2022

The average price of a property in England was £302,278

The annual price change of a property in England was 13.1%

The monthly price change of a property in England was 1.3%

The index figure for England (January 2015 = 100) was 149.0

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.

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2. Economic statement

England house prices grew by 13.1% in the year to May 2022, up from 11.6% in April 2022. England house prices were growing faster than the UK annual rate of 12.8% in the year to May 2022. The South West was the fastest growing region with annual growth of 16.9% in the year to May 2022. The lowest annual growth was in London, where prices increased by 8.2% over the year to May 2022.

On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, average house prices in England increased by 1.3% between April and May 2022, compared with a decrease of 0.1% during the same period a year earlier (April and May 2021). On a seasonally adjusted basis, average house prices in England increased by 1.1% between April and May 2022.

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for March 2021 with the provisional estimate for March 2022, the volume of transactions decreased by 44.4% in England. The UK volume of transactions decreased by 41.7% 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 38.1% in England in the year to March 2022.

Across England, detached houses showed the largest increase out of all property types, growing by 15.3% in the year to May 2022 to £475,000. The lowest annual change was in flats and maisonettes which increased by 8.3% in the year to May 2022 to £248,000.

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 13.1% in the year to May 2022, up from 11.6% in April 2022.

In London, average house prices increased by 8.2% in the year to May 2022, up from 6.9%% in April 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 May 2022 May 2021 Difference
Adur £374,367 £331,818 12.8%
Allerdale £168,799 £168,731 0.0%
Amber Valley £212,442 £198,999 6.8%
Arun £361,682 £312,900 15.6%
Ashfield £188,207 £161,570 16.5%
Ashford £363,058 £319,255 13.7%
Babergh £334,353 £301,533 10.9%
Barking and Dagenham £344,899 £309,571 11.4%
Barnet £599,326 £538,012 11.4%
Barnsley £163,082 £138,425 17.8%
Barrow-in-Furness £143,512 £132,377 8.4%
Basildon £363,676 £329,275 10.4%
Basingstoke and Deane £349,257 £313,616 11.4%
Bassetlaw £191,433 £174,469 9.7%
Bath and North East Somerset £423,738 £372,214 13.8%
Bedford £344,871 £301,438 14.4%
Bexley £396,992 £359,007 10.6%
Birmingham £222,834 £204,362 9.0%
Blaby £289,982 £253,553 14.4%
Blackburn with Darwen £140,907 £125,845 12.0%
Blackpool £130,465 £116,092 12.4%
Bolsover £167,719 £146,437 14.5%
Bolton £176,749 £157,607 12.1%
Boston £200,461 £167,553 19.6%
Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole £336,648 £300,050 12.2%
Bracknell Forest £388,771 £344,858 12.7%
Bradford £168,015 £153,301 9.6%
Braintree £345,645 £303,560 13.9%
Breckland £281,059 £247,666 13.5%
Brent £538,732 £507,153 6.2%
Brentwood £481,566 £440,871 9.2%
Brighton and Hove £425,543 £388,295 9.6%
Broadland £332,085 £279,109 19.0%
Bromley £498,721 £460,556 8.3%
Bromsgrove £344,263 £303,852 13.3%
Broxbourne £396,844 £362,994 9.3%
Broxtowe £234,352 £209,559 11.8%
Buckinghamshire £462,393 £423,525 9.2%
Burnley £111,577 £99,540 12.1%
Bury £230,494 £210,231 9.6%
Calderdale £177,896 £165,251 7.7%
Cambridge £479,909 £451,822 6.2%
Cambridgeshire £346,456 £310,543 11.6%
Camden £859,332 £821,255 4.6%
Cannock Chase £215,128 £190,406 13.0%
Canterbury £362,915 £329,752 10.1%
Carlisle £157,924 £142,278 11.0%
Castle Point £370,967 £326,601 13.6%
Central Bedfordshire £364,220 £326,549 11.5%
Charnwood £279,986 £245,966 13.8%
Chelmsford £376,062 £334,577 12.4%
Cheltenham £315,126 £291,772 8.0%
Cherwell £357,059 £314,049 13.7%
Cheshire East £277,506 £258,390 7.4%
Cheshire West and Chester £251,823 £231,660 8.7%
Chesterfield £193,098 £175,524 10.0%
Chichester £460,274 £402,263 14.4%
Chorley £222,935 £202,775 9.9%
City of Bristol £342,432 £310,482 10.3%
City of Derby £196,913 £176,397 11.6%
City of Kingston upon Hull £132,973 £120,544 10.3%
City of London £789,805 £756,082 4.5%
City of Nottingham £182,415 £161,089 13.2%
City of Peterborough £237,181 £205,534 15.4%
City of Plymouth £220,687 £189,984 16.2%
City of Westminster £881,375 £890,972 -1.1%
Colchester £314,664 £273,653 15.0%
Copeland £137,673 £133,374 3.2%
Cornwall £312,083 £266,017 17.3%
Cotswold £474,071 £416,767 13.7%
County Durham £124,830 £113,100 10.4%
Coventry £220,459 £200,832 9.8%
Craven £275,097 £232,703 18.2%
Crawley £315,718 £282,525 11.7%
Croydon £419,335 £393,858 6.5%
Cumbria £184,411 £172,223 7.1%
Dacorum £459,059 £426,246 7.7%
Darlington £157,036 £141,845 10.7%
Dartford £348,909 £324,932 7.4%
Derbyshire £222,369 £199,321 11.6%
Derbyshire Dales £329,823 £295,508 11.6%
Devon £328,602 £286,219 14.8%
Doncaster £161,807 £144,861 11.7%
Dorset £357,183 £310,939 14.9%
Dover £313,172 £274,391 14.1%
Dudley £222,420 £200,212 11.1%
Ealing £542,223 £496,876 9.1%
East Cambridgeshire £342,969 £295,519 16.1%
East Devon £354,580 £312,953 13.3%
East Hampshire £452,484 £401,630 12.7%
East Hertfordshire £443,591 £412,806 7.5%
East Lindsey £223,786 £193,644 15.6%
East Riding of Yorkshire £216,802 £198,339 9.3%
East Staffordshire £222,454 £201,054 10.6%
East Suffolk £297,998 £263,515 13.1%
East Sussex £345,186 £304,342 13.4%
Eastbourne £280,592 £260,596 7.7%
Eastleigh £344,171 £302,824 13.7%
Eden £255,754 £224,962 13.7%
Elmbridge £718,585 £645,697 11.3%
Enfield £451,073 £416,529 8.3%
Epping Forest £514,660 £480,872 7.0%
Epsom and Ewell £544,173 £484,163 12.4%
Erewash £206,073 £183,914 12.0%
Essex £370,492 £327,995 13.0%
Exeter £310,082 £282,289 9.8%
Fareham £350,589 £312,643 12.1%
Fenland £239,134 £200,166 19.5%
Folkestone and Hythe £322,797 £280,247 15.2%
Forest of Dean £290,874 £272,021 6.9%
Fylde £222,183 £214,529 3.6%
Gateshead £148,846 £139,575 6.6%
Gedling £237,878 £212,277 12.1%
Gloucester £241,788 £214,766 12.6%
Gloucestershire £323,233 £289,135 11.8%
Gosport £254,772 £223,451 14.0%
Gravesham £332,480 £299,374 11.1%
Great Yarmouth £219,533 £186,803 17.5%
Greenwich £419,437 £400,542 4.7%
Guildford £510,594 £470,484 8.5%
Hackney £576,072 £569,742 1.1%
Halton £179,025 £166,433 7.6%
Hambleton £292,808 £255,507 14.6%
Hammersmith and Fulham £765,841 £738,465 3.7%
Hampshire £376,364 £334,319 12.6%
Harborough £386,490 £314,982 22.7%
Haringey £587,620 £557,673 5.4%
Harlow £321,139 £282,390 13.7%
Harrogate £326,123 £303,528 7.4%
Harrow £510,458 £486,798 4.9%
Hart £476,727 £435,726 9.4%
Hartlepool £129,071 £124,955 3.3%
Hastings £270,825 £245,781 10.2%
Havant £317,890 £287,195 10.7%
Havering £422,527 £386,164 9.4%
Herefordshire £297,120 £258,770 14.8%
Hertfordshire £457,580 £418,597 9.3%
Hertsmere £547,479 £490,137 11.7%
High Peak £250,273 £218,445 14.6%
Hillingdon £455,347 £424,419 7.3%
Hinckley and Bosworth £266,330 £241,435 10.3%
Horsham £449,396 £391,271 14.9%
Hounslow £446,033 £423,682 5.3%
Huntingdonshire £301,397 £277,638 8.6%
Hyndburn £121,950 £107,802 13.1%
Ipswich £234,963 £206,656 13.7%
Isle of Wight £291,878 £247,089 18.1%
Islington £742,294 £661,615 12.2%
Kensington and Chelsea £1,316,522 £1,227,587 7.2%
Kent £355,111 £317,024 12.0%
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk £266,414 £237,562 12.1%
Kingston upon Thames £538,863 £504,698 6.8%
Kirklees £186,986 £167,319 11.8%
Knowsley £176,562 £146,575 20.5%
Lambeth £535,870 £538,577 -0.5%
Lancashire £179,280 £162,540 10.3%
Lancaster £189,812 £171,218 10.9%
Leeds £229,139 £208,843 9.7%
Leicester £221,938 £202,357 9.7%
Leicestershire £290,705 £253,331 14.8%
Lewes £394,787 £343,274 15.0%
Lewisham £452,678 £434,411 4.2%
Lichfield £314,448 £279,122 12.7%
Lincoln £182,718 £167,482 9.1%
Lincolnshire £231,729 £200,707 15.5%
Liverpool £179,150 £157,452 13.8%
Luton £274,406 £241,903 13.4%
Maidstone £352,234 £304,832 15.6%
Maldon £415,189 £355,942 16.6%
Malvern Hills £333,059 £291,713 14.2%
Manchester £222,346 £201,294 10.5%
Mansfield £173,460 £154,720 12.1%
Medway £290,794 £258,656 12.4%
Melton £288,115 £251,532 14.5%
Mendip £323,741 £286,826 12.9%
Merton £567,387 £535,372 6.0%
Mid Devon £286,963 £255,416 12.4%
Mid Suffolk £316,179 £281,212 12.4%
Mid Sussex £455,501 £387,184 17.6%
Middlesbrough £135,288 £118,158 14.5%
Milton Keynes £314,757 £270,025 16.6%
Mole Valley £573,894 £506,911 13.2%
New Forest £417,286 £360,508 15.7%
Newark and Sherwood £224,089 £200,800 11.6%
Newcastle upon Tyne £184,656 £169,739 8.8%
Newcastle-under-Lyme £189,141 £166,972 13.3%
Newham £409,413 £382,881 6.9%
Norfolk £285,332 £248,560 14.8%
North Devon £308,351 £276,663 11.5%
North East Derbyshire £228,036 £202,395 12.7%
North East Lincolnshire £148,243 £135,417 9.5%
North Hertfordshire £390,191 £356,012 9.6%
North Kesteven £260,222 £227,122 14.6%
North Lincolnshire £180,815 £163,586 10.5%
North Norfolk £327,742 £285,982 14.6%
North Northamptonshire £265,066 £229,135 15.7%
North Somerset £323,755 £283,855 14.1%
North Tyneside £195,730 £179,196 9.2%
North Warwickshire £266,409 £216,381 23.1%
North West Leicestershire £265,169 £233,280 13.7%
North Yorkshire £272,334 £240,182 13.4%
Northumberland £181,562 £171,736 5.7%
Norwich £239,974 £212,600 12.9%
Nottinghamshire £223,750 £198,939 12.5%
Nuneaton and Bedworth £228,116 £197,242 15.7%
Oadby and Wigston £273,592 £239,575 14.2%
Oldham £180,048 £162,709 10.7%
Oxford £465,505 £444,249 4.8%
Oxfordshire £425,156 £380,370 11.8%
Pendle £126,845 £119,836 5.8%
Portsmouth £248,678 £223,490 11.3%
Preston £156,147 £136,814 14.1%
Reading £318,163 £293,509 8.4%
Redbridge £472,102 £444,311 6.3%
Redcar and Cleveland £154,475 £134,901 14.5%
Redditch £259,075 £231,622 11.9%
Reigate and Banstead £466,832 £433,197 7.8%
Ribble Valley £269,833 £234,390 15.1%
Richmond upon Thames £754,011 £692,951 8.8%
Richmondshire £265,412 £232,501 14.2%
Rochdale £181,784 £162,940 11.6%
Rochford £422,758 £368,798 14.6%
Rossendale £176,965 £170,253 3.9%
Rother £366,573 £318,187 15.2%
Rotherham £171,810 £158,434 8.4%
Rugby £292,604 £264,213 10.7%
Runnymede £480,101 £436,604 10.0%
Rushcliffe £343,489 £303,086 13.3%
Rushmoor £335,166 £293,837 14.1%
Rutland £340,983 £362,614 -6.0%
Ryedale £293,855 £249,985 17.5%
Salford £206,214 £182,090 13.2%
Sandwell £192,023 £168,680 13.8%
Scarborough £205,607 £181,753 13.1%
Sedgemoor £286,732 £251,062 14.2%
Sefton £206,229 £183,448 12.4%
Selby £257,422 £219,270 17.4%
Sevenoaks £491,635 £460,586 6.7%
Sheffield £201,950 £186,232 8.4%
Shropshire £270,838 £238,722 13.5%
Slough £314,127 £293,344 7.1%
Solihull £319,793 £302,145 5.8%
Somerset £296,343 £260,763 13.6%
Somerset West and Taunton £298,417 £256,627 16.3%
South Cambridgeshire £444,987 £401,587 10.8%
South Derbyshire £241,376 £215,101 12.2%
South Gloucestershire £339,435 £295,884 14.7%
South Hams £426,219 £346,928 22.9%
South Holland £235,820 £201,583 17.0%
South Kesteven £277,679 £231,355 20.0%
South Lakeland £282,960 £264,930 6.8%
South Norfolk £339,236 £294,044 15.4%
South Oxfordshire £489,780 £456,571 7.3%
South Ribble £207,590 £182,289 13.9%
South Somerset £285,055 £255,895 11.4%
South Staffordshire £307,338 £264,278 16.3%
South Tyneside £151,573 £142,980 6.0%
Southampton £238,904 £217,199 10.0%
Southend-on-Sea £331,972 £305,153 8.8%
Southwark £538,599 £512,258 5.1%
Spelthorne £431,955 £377,541 14.4%
St Albans £606,128 £542,320 11.8%
St Helens £174,614 £150,506 16.0%
Stafford £255,660 £230,819 10.8%
Staffordshire £240,860 £213,349 12.9%
Staffordshire Moorlands £222,704 £204,672 8.8%
Stevenage £321,955 £298,606 7.8%
Stockport £278,220 £253,971 9.5%
Stockton-on-Tees £159,407 £143,955 10.7%
Stoke-on-Trent £138,604 £123,562 12.2%
Stratford-on-Avon £384,327 £339,868 13.1%
Stroud £346,684 £298,474 16.2%
Suffolk £293,238 £260,361 12.6%
Sunderland £140,439 £127,350 10.3%
Surrey £517,982 £465,906 11.2%
Surrey Heath £456,083 £405,712 12.4%
Sutton £427,275 £394,114 8.4%
Swale £303,351 £263,775 15.0%
Swindon £264,288 £226,980 16.4%
Tameside £198,073 £175,331 13.0%
Tamworth £233,593 £196,932 18.6%
Tandridge £526,180 £464,076 13.4%
Teignbridge £322,717 £270,618 19.3%
Telford and Wrekin £212,535 £187,653 13.3%
Tendring £272,150 £233,429 16.6%
Test Valley £399,944 £354,189 12.9%
Tewkesbury £352,229 £308,921 14.0%
Thanet £303,758 £263,716 15.2%
Three Rivers £587,358 £535,468 9.7%
Thurrock £322,789 £287,398 12.3%
Tonbridge and Malling £432,607 £393,103 10.0%
Torbay £250,850 £216,628 15.8%
Torridge £306,062 £256,274 19.4%
Tower Hamlets £475,397 £455,885 4.3%
Trafford £353,407 £316,939 11.5%
Tunbridge Wells £432,224 £402,654 7.3%
Uttlesford £477,439 £430,765 10.8%
Vale of White Horse £434,056 £374,224 16.0%
Wakefield £188,244 £170,069 10.7%
Walsall £208,600 £187,425 11.3%
Waltham Forest £497,887 £476,033 4.6%
Wandsworth £641,589 £591,189 8.5%
Warrington £241,139 £216,927 11.2%
Warwick £363,349 £326,132 11.4%
Warwickshire £311,148 £273,571 13.7%
Watford £395,200 £366,544 7.8%
Waverley £540,491 £472,079 14.5%
Wealden £419,194 £358,685 16.9%
Welwyn Hatfield £451,517 £407,659 10.8%
West Berkshire £394,538 £358,527 10.0%
West Devon £294,898 £272,385 8.3%
West Lancashire £215,197 £201,976 6.5%
West Lindsey £212,711 £188,909 12.6%
West Northamptonshire £292,348 £257,190 13.7%
West Oxfordshire £394,114 £337,667 16.7%
West Suffolk £305,251 £271,154 12.6%
West Sussex £393,904 £343,122 14.8%
Wigan £177,341 £154,864 14.5%
Wiltshire £330,295 £294,235 12.3%
Winchester £490,955 £439,796 11.6%
Windsor and Maidenhead £544,625 £490,263 11.1%
Wirral £201,749 £182,904 10.3%
Woking £459,268 £428,487 7.2%
Wokingham £490,206 £441,603 11.0%
Wolverhampton £194,832 £170,885 14.0%
Worcester £255,190 £225,543 13.1%
Worcestershire £293,223 £259,038 13.2%
Worthing £346,328 £303,891 14.0%
Wychavon £340,862 £298,770 14.1%
Wyre £189,187 £168,100 12.5%
Wyre Forest £236,847 £210,222 12.7%
York £315,092 £285,473 10.4%
England £302,278 £267,295 13.1%

Average price by local authority for England

In May 2022, 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 £112,000.

3.2 Annual price change by London borough

London borough May 2022 May 2021 Difference
Barking and Dagenham £344,899 £309,571 11.4%
Barnet £599,326 £538,012 11.4%
Bexley £396,992 £359,007 10.6%
Brent £538,732 £507,153 6.2%
Bromley £498,721 £460,556 8.3%
Camden £859,332 £821,255 4.6%
City of London £789,805 £756,082 4.5%
City of Westminster £881,375 £890,972 -1.1%
Croydon £419,335 £393,858 6.5%
Ealing £542,223 £496,876 9.1%
Enfield £451,073 £416,529 8.3%
Greenwich £419,437 £400,542 4.7%
Hackney £576,072 £569,742 1.1%
Hammersmith and Fulham £765,841 £738,465 3.7%
Haringey £587,620 £557,673 5.4%
Harrow £510,458 £486,798 4.9%
Havering £422,527 £386,164 9.4%
Hillingdon £455,347 £424,419 7.3%
Hounslow £446,033 £423,682 5.3%
Islington £742,294 £661,615 12.2%
Kensington and Chelsea £1,316,522 £1,227,587 7.2%
Kingston upon Thames £538,863 £504,698 6.8%
Lambeth £535,870 £538,577 -0.5%
Lewisham £452,678 £434,411 4.2%
Merton £567,387 £535,372 6.0%
Newham £409,413 £382,881 6.9%
Redbridge £472,102 £444,311 6.3%
Richmond upon Thames £754,011 £692,951 8.8%
Southwark £538,599 £512,258 5.1%
Sutton £427,275 £394,114 8.4%
Tower Hamlets £475,397 £455,885 4.3%
Waltham Forest £497,887 £476,033 4.6%
Wandsworth £641,589 £591,189 8.5%

Average price by London borough

In May 2022, 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 £345,000.

3.3 Average price change by property type

Average price change by property type for England

Property type May 2022 May 2021 Difference
Detached £474,802 £411,963 15.3%
Semi-detached £288,881 £253,768 13.8%
Terraced £247,961 £219,133 13.2%
Flat or maisonette £248,105 £229,010 8.3%
All £302,278 £267,295 13.1%

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 March 2022 March 2021
Adur 61 155
Allerdale 94 146
Amber Valley 123 232
Arun 184 493
Ashfield 119 207
Ashford 121 331
Babergh 84 240
Barking and Dagenham 103 220
Barnet 250 631
Barnsley 206 411
Barrow-in-Furness 75 137
Basildon 151 430
Basingstoke and Deane 168 444
Bassetlaw 97 209
Bath and North East Somerset 158 447
Bedford 114 448
Bexley 188 528
Birmingham 674 1,512
Blaby 97 230
Blackburn with Darwen 122 220
Blackpool 159 269
Bolsover 72 134
Bolton 231 467
Boston 73 115
Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole 442 1,137
Bracknell Forest 117 278
Bradford 450 846
Braintree 143 416
Breckland 120 320
Brent 100 306
Brentwood 77 267
Brighton and Hove 250 737
Broadland 120 311
Bromley 263 843
Bromsgrove 84 236
Broxbourne 81 264
Broxtowe 123 229
Buckinghamshire 440 1,372
Burnley 96 162
Bury 154 335
Calderdale 204 442
Cambridge 68 205
Cambridgeshire 499 1,532
Camden 102 325
Cannock Chase 88 188
Canterbury 113 405
Carlisle 106 218
Castle Point 73 228
Central Bedfordshire 259 911
Charnwood 132 381
Chelmsford 157 485
Cheltenham 139 379
Cherwell 138 413
Cheshire East 362 1,027
Cheshire West and Chester 318 743
Chesterfield 88 194
Chichester 102 370
Chorley 113 225
City of Bristol 379 1,013
City of Derby 194 429
City of Kingston upon Hull 187 319
City of London 11 25
City of Nottingham 226 402
City of Peterborough 196 350
City of Plymouth 287 447
City of Westminster 112 326
Colchester 179 514
Copeland 59 130
Cornwall 490 1,460
Cotswold 63 266
County Durham 424 836
Coventry 257 521
Craven 38 122
Crawley 78 207
Croydon 270 730
Cumbria 472 1,054
Dacorum 141 395
Darlington 100 215
Dartford 93 269
Derbyshire 714 1,635
Derbyshire Dales 55 172
Devon 686 2,167
Doncaster 274 516
Dorset 350 1,071
Dover 78 296
Dudley 240 539
Ealing 169 458
East Cambridgeshire 54 260
East Devon 137 464
East Hampshire 114 329
East Hertfordshire 128 429
East Lindsey 128 330
East Riding of Yorkshire 314 828
East Staffordshire 115 220
East Suffolk 217 641
East Sussex 607 1,713
Eastbourne 143 304
Eastleigh 113 338
Eden 41 139
Elmbridge 111 441
Enfield 164 460
Epping Forest 96 319
Epsom and Ewell 47 243
Erewash 126 229
Essex 1,279 3,956
Exeter 119 264
Fareham 96 325
Fenland 113 252
Folkestone and Hythe 124 335
Forest of Dean 88 210
Fylde 85 197
Gateshead 149 289
Gedling 114 276
Gloucester 106 263
Gloucestershire 564 1,641
Gosport 80 217
Gravesham 70 177
Great Yarmouth 93 251
Greenwich 142 430
Guildford 139 397
Hackney 127 391
Halton 107 170
Hambleton 72 225
Hammersmith and Fulham 123 371
Hampshire 1,199 3,603
Harborough 83 276
Haringey 108 387
Harlow 69 152
Harrogate 135 464
Harrow 126 339
Hart 83 292
Hartlepool 91 165
Hastings 113 284
Havant 123 266
Havering 212 654
Herefordshire 139 428
Hertfordshire 926 2,950
Hertsmere 67 258
High Peak 74 218
Hillingdon 183 510
Hinckley and Bosworth 105 255
Horsham 122 421
Hounslow 118 325
Huntingdonshire 149 455
Hyndburn 86 150
Ipswich 121 282
Isle of Wight 161 470
Islington 114 300
Kensington and Chelsea 102 277
Kent 1,370 4,063
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk 173 361
Kingston upon Thames 133 376
Kirklees 327 740
Knowsley 109 201
Lambeth 204 625
Lancashire 1,182 2,426
Lancaster 151 266
Leeds 600 1,540
Leicester 181 342
Leicestershire 595 1,575
Lewes 75 274
Lewisham 197 552
Lichfield 79 241
Lincoln 105 163
Lincolnshire 709 1,708
Liverpool 347 622
Luton 147 297
Maidstone 169 472
Maldon 49 173
Malvern Hills 75 210
Manchester 301 811
Mansfield 107 199
Medway 242 615
Melton 42 120
Mendip 78 264
Merton 122 441
Mid Devon 64 183
Mid Suffolk 84 330
Mid Sussex 141 406
Middlesbrough 109 228
Milton Keynes 227 685
Mole Valley 70 232
New Forest 144 514
Newark and Sherwood 104 273
Newcastle upon Tyne 220 423
Newcastle-under-Lyme 86 180
Newham 105 285
Norfolk 865 2,230
North Devon 96 276
North East Derbyshire 74 182
North East Lincolnshire 141 342
North Hertfordshire 108 343
North Kesteven 110 296
North Lincolnshire 170 277
North Norfolk 96 341
North Northamptonshire 335 753
North Somerset 217 569
North Tyneside 154 400
North Warwickshire 53 126
North West Leicestershire 97 223
North Yorkshire 500 1,506
Northumberland 247 595
Norwich 136 258
Nottinghamshire 737 1,720
Nuneaton and Bedworth 112 283
Oadby and Wigston 39 90
Oldham 164 321
Oxford 82 219
Oxfordshire 561 1,694
Pendle 90 189
Portsmouth 195 426
Preston 132 230
Reading 150 310
Redbridge 156 444
Redcar and Cleveland 122 200
Redditch 76 183
Reigate and Banstead 152 436
Ribble Valley 43 166
Richmond upon Thames 176 497
Richmondshire 33 101
Rochdale 179 315
Rochford 73 268
Rossendale 66 153
Rother 108 319
Rotherham 231 456
Rugby 86 242
Runnymede 56 211
Rushcliffe 73 327
Rushmoor 80 196
Rutland 42 92
Ryedale 36 125
Salford 205 491
Sandwell 214 357
Scarborough 112 268
Sedgemoor 94 309
Sefton 231 525
Selby 74 201
Sevenoaks 107 312
Sheffield 344 902
Shropshire 231 697
Slough 71 143
Solihull 177 494
Somerset 517 1,390
Somerset West and Taunton 177 391
South Cambridgeshire 115 360
South Derbyshire 102 274
South Gloucestershire 217 662
South Hams 66 261
South Holland 77 237
South Kesteven 119 352
South Lakeland 97 284
South Norfolk 127 388
South Oxfordshire 136 424
South Ribble 112 213
South Somerset 168 426
South Staffordshire 90 216
South Tyneside 105 187
Southampton 212 407
Southend-on-Sea 169 431
Southwark 181 474
Spelthorne 105 241
St Albans 109 405
St Helens 162 298
Stafford 112 266
Staffordshire 703 1,683
Staffordshire Moorlands 63 187
Stevenage 67 200
Stockport 250 659
Stockton-on-Tees 195 354
Stoke-on-Trent 214 398
Stratford-on-Avon 112 401
Stroud 106 308
Suffolk 642 1,850
Sunderland 195 370
Surrey 1,059 3,300
Surrey Heath 91 247
Sutton 165 460
Swale 128 366
Swindon 224 492
Tameside 183 412
Tamworth 70 185
Tandridge 82 223
Teignbridge 123 361
Telford and Wrekin 136 357
Tendring 155 445
Test Valley 95 364
Tewkesbury 62 215
Thanet 128 388
Three Rivers 59 219
Thurrock 134 343
Tonbridge and Malling 127 372
Torbay 176 359
Torridge 47 220
Tower Hamlets 160 556
Trafford 190 560
Tunbridge Wells 112 340
Uttlesford 57 259
Vale of White Horse 119 331
Wakefield 273 557
Walsall 211 373
Waltham Forest 159 530
Wandsworth 255 808
Warrington 136 436
Warwick 132 418
Warwickshire 495 1,470
Watford 86 207
Waverley 113 346
Wealden 168 532
Welwyn Hatfield 80 230
West Berkshire 119 389
West Devon 34 138
West Lancashire 99 209
West Lindsey 97 215
West Northamptonshire 376 968
West Oxfordshire 86 307
West Suffolk 136 357
West Sussex 789 2,423
Wigan 252 540
Wiltshire 444 1,287
Winchester 103 318
Windsor and Maidenhead 130 356
Wirral 337 682
Woking 93 283
Wokingham 133 436
Wolverhampton 189 331
Worcester 116 226
Worcestershire 517 1,365
Worthing 101 371
Wychavon 100 318
Wyre 109 266
Wyre Forest 66 192
York 146 447
England 44,650 115,873

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 March 2022 will increase as more transactions are incorporated into the index. See our Revisions Policy for more information.

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for March 2021 with the provisional estimate for March 2022, volume transactions decreased by 44.4% 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 38.1% in England in the year to March 2022.

4.2 Sales volumes by London borough

Sales volumes by London borough

London borough March 2022 March 2021
Barking and Dagenham 103 220
Barnet 250 631
Bexley 188 528
Brent 100 306
Bromley 263 843
Camden 102 325
City of London 11 25
City of Westminster 112 326
Croydon 270 730
Ealing 169 458
Enfield 164 460
Greenwich 142 430
Hackney 127 391
Hammersmith and Fulham 123 371
Haringey 108 387
Harrow 126 339
Havering 212 654
Hillingdon 183 510
Hounslow 118 325
Islington 114 300
Kensington and Chelsea 102 277
Kingston upon Thames 133 376
Lambeth 204 625
Lewisham 197 552
Merton 122 441
Newham 105 285
Redbridge 156 444
Richmond upon Thames 176 497
Southwark 181 474
Sutton 165 460
Tower Hamlets 160 556
Waltham Forest 159 530
Wandsworth 255 808

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 March 2022 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
March 2018 68,184
March 2019 65,206
March 2020 57,626
March 2021 115,873
March 2022 44,650

Comparing the provisional volume estimate for March 2021 with the provisional estimate for March 2022, volume transactions decreased by 44.4% 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 38.1% in England in the year to March 2022.

4.4 Sales volumes for London

Sales volumes for London over the past 5 years

Date Sales volumes for London
March 2018 7,350
March 2019 6,875
March 2020 6,842
March 2021 14,884
March 2022 5,100

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 March 2022 Average existing March 2022 New build monthly change Existing monthly change New build annual change Existing annual change
London £614,010 £518,972 4.0% -0.2% 18.7% 4.0%
North East £271,608 £146,504 6.9% 1.3% 27.8% 6.9%
East Midlands £387,393 £228,811 6.6% 0.9% 31.1% 10.0%
East of England £511,634 £332,461 4.6% -0.3% 29.8% 9.4%
North West £326,838 £198,077 5.1% 0.0% 27.5% 8.2%
South East £532,208 £374,386 6.5% 1.2% 29.9% 9.9%
South West £443,523 £305,433 5.0% 0.1% 30.5% 9.5%
West Midlands Region £386,142 £232,718 6.2% 1.0% 28.8% 9.1%
Yorkshire and The Humber £300,858 £192,418 4.4% -0.3% 26.9% 7.0%
England £434,515 £288,329 5.4% 0.4% 27.8% 8.4%

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 May 2022 Average former owner occupier price May 2022 First time buyer monthly change Former owner occupier monthly change First time buyer annual change Former owner occupier annual change
London £453,778 £605,271 0.4% 0.0% 7.7% 8.8%
North East £131,549 £175,386 0.1% -0.3% 9.6% 9.9%
East Midlands £204,836 £276,464 2.1% 1.8% 15.0% 15.5%
East of England £291,887 £401,872 2.8% 2.5% 14.4% 15.2%
North West £173,684 £233,500 0.1% -0.4% 11.6% 11.4%
South East £306,933 £455,174 1.4% 1.4% 12.9% 14.1%
South West £263,903 £367,600 1.2% 0.9% 16.4% 17.3%
West Midlands Region £205,373 £284,562 2.3% 2.1% 13.8% 14.3%
Yorkshire and The Humber £175,338 £230,940 2.3% 2.0% 12.5% 12.8%
England £251,183 £346,356 1.4% 1.2% 12.6% 13.6%

7. Funding status

Cash and mortgage indicator for England by region

Region Average cash price May 2022 Average mortgage price May 2022 Cash monthly change Mortgage monthly change Cash annual change Mortgage annual change
London £536,015 £521,706 -1.5% 0.5% 6.8% 8.5%
North East £139,493 £161,551 -0.1% -0.1% 8.6% 10.2%
East Midlands £233,591 £249,051 2.1% 1.8% 14.6% 15.4%
East of England £334,669 £362,767 2.6% 2.7% 14.6% 14.9%
North West £186,776 £215,759 -0.3% -0.1% 10.5% 11.8%
South East £370,219 £397,581 1.3% 1.4% 13.2% 13.6%
South West £319,385 £325,976 0.7% 1.2% 16.9% 16.8%
West Midlands Region £234,197 £252,960 2.2% 2.2% 13.4% 14.2%
Yorkshire and The Humber £195,190 £209,642 2.6% 1.9% 12.2% 12.8%
England £283,166 £311,806 1.2% 1.3% 12.8% 13.2%

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 March 2022
East Midlands 2
East of England 1
London 6
North East 10
North West 11
South East 7
South West 2
West Midlands Region 1
Yorkshire and The Humber 6
England 46

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