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Where the most homes change hands, area by area

Name: Where the most homes change hands, area by area
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The number of home sales over twelve months in 135 UK areas, from the UK House Price Index (2025-06 to 2026-05).

Computed by Payotte from the UK House Price Index (August 2026) and the purchase tax rates of each nation, read on the official pages on 2026-10-14.

In short

Over the twelve months with complete volumes (2025-06 to 2026-05), the most sales were in City of Glasgow (11,163), City of Edinburgh (10,865), Leeds (9,628). The 135 areas together recorded 459,411 sales.

All 135 areas

#	Area	Nation	Sales over 12 months	Average price
1	City of Glasgow	Scotland	11,163	£194,382
2	City of Edinburgh	Scotland	10,865	£301,313
3	Leeds	England	9,628	£246,385
4	North Yorkshire	England	9,607	£270,080
5	Birmingham	England	9,088	£234,867
6	Somerset	England	8,331	£282,498
7	Cornwall	England	8,004	£274,570
8	County Durham	England	7,397	£140,788
9	Wiltshire	England	7,172	£328,102
10	Buckinghamshire	England	7,009	£477,450
11	Fife	Scotland	6,835	£182,463
12	South Lanarkshire	Scotland	6,674	£186,196
13	Cheshire East	England	6,533	£311,897
14	Bradford	England	6,469	£185,297
15	Sheffield	England	6,123	£217,603
16	Dorset	England	5,978	£328,589
17	West Northamptonshire	England	5,921	£289,726
18	East Riding of Yorkshire	England	5,858	£219,871
19	City of Bristol	England	5,832	£353,596
20	Kirklees	England	5,477	£208,427
21	Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole	England	5,455	£310,176
22	North Lanarkshire	Scotland	5,429	£161,163
23	North Northamptonshire	England	5,178	£252,884
24	Cheshire West and Chester	England	5,075	£270,534
25	City of Aberdeen	Scotland	5,070	£133,782
26	Northumberland	England	4,968	£213,113
27	Manchester	England	4,842	£256,760
28	Belfast	Northern Ireland	4,726	£184,768
29	Liverpool	England	4,605	£188,427
30	Central Bedfordshire	England	4,553	£355,263
31	Wakefield	England	4,480	£199,283
32	Wirral	England	4,456	£221,673
33	Shropshire	England	4,404	£277,521
34	Wandsworth	England	4,402	£694,210
35	Cardiff	Wales	4,383	£272,443
36	Aberdeenshire	Scotland	4,370	£200,965
37	Wigan	England	4,349	£194,393
38	Cumberland	England	4,276	£172,654
39	Highland	Scotland	4,185	£224,574
40	South Gloucestershire	England	4,096	£335,572
41	Doncaster	England	4,007	£172,770
42	City of Plymouth	England	3,690	£223,229
43	Croydon	England	3,676	£396,718
44	East Suffolk	England	3,660	£277,949
45	West Lothian	Scotland	3,658	£225,439
46	Sefton	England	3,601	£221,105
47	Dudley	England	3,594	£233,819
48	North Somerset	England	3,572	£314,307
49	Westmorland and Furness	England	3,435	£231,161
50	Brighton and Hove	England	3,427	£408,240
51	Coventry	England	3,417	£227,721
52	Newcastle upon Tyne	England	3,403	£211,255
53	Lambeth	England	3,279	£540,198
54	Rotherham	England	3,277	£191,052
55	Bolton	England	3,275	£203,951
56	Milton Keynes	England	3,262	£323,868
57	Salford	England	3,126	£223,323
58	Calderdale	England	3,097	£197,651
59	Trafford	England	2,952	£393,897
60	North Tyneside	England	2,941	£205,554
61	City of Kingston upon Hull	England	2,939	£136,593
62	Warrington	England	2,847	£259,224
63	Solihull	England	2,795	£332,022
64	Lewisham	England	2,778	£486,416
65	Falkirk	Scotland	2,776	£174,164
66	Southwark	England	2,746	£569,160
67	Tameside	England	2,696	£213,026
68	York	England	2,655	£311,865
69	Southampton	England	2,633	£235,729
70	Walsall	England	2,582	£216,878
71	New Forest	England	2,579	£384,564
72	Tendring	England	2,575	£260,636
73	Gateshead	England	2,518	£156,036
74	Sandwell	England	2,511	£207,065
75	Oldham	England	2,468	£217,214
76	Greenwich	England	2,451	£462,868
77	Charnwood	England	2,447	£270,351
78	Tower Hamlets	England	2,380	£447,950
79	St Helens	England	2,365	£186,445
80	North Lincolnshire	England	2,362	£180,345
81	Bury	England	2,354	£243,107
82	Telford and Wrekin	England	2,346	£221,853
83	Mid Sussex	England	2,338	£431,904
84	South Ayrshire	Scotland	2,296	£173,126
85	Leicester	England	2,286	£226,881
86	Warwick	England	2,250	£370,924
87	Bedford	England	2,239	£330,462
88	East Ayrshire	Scotland	2,233	£138,206
89	Wolverhampton	England	2,233	£215,801
90	Stratford-on-Avon	England	2,214	£396,711
91	East Hertfordshire	England	2,198	£455,973
92	Horsham	England	2,174	£441,491
93	City of Peterborough	England	2,156	£231,634
94	Breckland	England	2,122	£266,835
95	Flintshire	Wales	2,111	£214,882
96	Teignbridge	England	2,089	£298,159
97	Merton	England	2,054	£623,791
98	Eastleigh	England	2,047	£312,753
99	Hackney	England	1,955	£619,408
100	City of Westminster	England	1,896	£887,206
101	Lancaster	England	1,859	£203,781
102	St Albans	England	1,859	£655,974
103	Hammersmith and Fulham	England	1,840	£754,825
104	North Hertfordshire	England	1,837	£422,835
105	Test Valley	England	1,830	£372,289
106	Nuneaton and Bedworth	England	1,790	£226,730
107	East Dunbartonshire	Scotland	1,783	£273,891
108	Mid Suffolk	England	1,783	£317,979
109	Bassetlaw	England	1,778	£211,488
110	Hinckley and Bosworth	England	1,758	£258,960
111	Moray	Scotland	1,719	£203,371
112	Camden	England	1,705	£798,486
113	Knowsley	England	1,688	£191,550
114	Harborough	England	1,666	£341,706
115	South Tyneside	England	1,636	£160,518
116	Wrexham	Wales	1,585	£215,035
117	Worthing	England	1,574	£299,075
118	Ipswich	England	1,553	£226,175
119	Exeter	England	1,533	£289,403
120	Kensington and Chelsea	England	1,493	£1,204,072
121	South Hams	England	1,471	£360,616
122	South Staffordshire	England	1,448	£308,695
123	Halton	England	1,437	£189,435
124	Blaby	England	1,436	£293,412
125	North East Derbyshire	England	1,426	£253,012
126	Powys	Wales	1,402	£237,042
127	Babergh	England	1,374	£331,207
128	Bolsover	England	1,234	£183,198
129	Hyndburn	England	1,148	£142,964
130	Crawley	England	1,108	£332,097
131	Rossendale	England	1,088	£201,483
132	Clackmannanshire	Scotland	888	£171,154
133	Adur	England	876	£378,990
134	West Devon	England	853	£286,921
135	Rutland	England	644	£307,406

How Payotte computed it

Sales volumes of the UK House Price Index over the latest twelve months for which the volumes are complete; recent months are revised upwards as registrations arrive, so they are left out.

Prices: average prices of the UK House Price Index for August 2026, published by HM Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, Land & Property Services and the ONS. Each area links to its page, with the ten-year trend and a calculator. The data is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0, with a link to this page.

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Sources

UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, Land & Property Services Northern Ireland, ONS). Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2020. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GOV.UK, Stamp Duty Land Tax: residential property rates (HMRC); Higher rates of Stamp Duty Land Tax (HMRC, last updated 1 April 2025)
Revenue Scotland, LBTT residential property (rates and bands as of 1 April 2021, first-time buyer relief); Scottish Budget 2025-2026: ADS rate 8% for contracts on or after 5 December 2024
Welsh Government, Land Transaction Tax rates and bands (main residential rates from 10 October 2022, higher residential rates from 11 December 2024)

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