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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 (2025-05 to 2026-04).

Computed by Payotte from the UK House Price Index (July 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 (2025-05 to 2026-04), the most sales were in City of Glasgow (11,159), City of Edinburgh (11,001), Leeds (9,455). The 135 areas together recorded 452,564 sales.

All 135 areas

#	Area	Nation	Sales over 12 months	Average price
1	City of Glasgow	Scotland	11,159	£193,675
2	City of Edinburgh	Scotland	11,001	£303,965
3	Leeds	England	9,455	£247,695
4	North Yorkshire	England	9,371	£270,463
5	Birmingham	England	8,963	£234,257
6	Somerset	England	8,170	£282,062
7	Cornwall	England	7,831	£275,642
8	County Durham	England	7,369	£140,447
9	Wiltshire	England	7,050	£328,746
10	Buckinghamshire	England	6,910	£479,736
11	Fife	Scotland	6,868	£179,134
12	South Lanarkshire	Scotland	6,693	£185,267
13	Cheshire East	England	6,552	£309,121
14	Bradford	England	6,400	£182,766
15	Sheffield	England	6,032	£219,713
16	West Northamptonshire	England	5,918	£291,929
17	Dorset	England	5,820	£325,154
18	East Riding of Yorkshire	England	5,774	£220,408
19	City of Bristol	England	5,705	£352,262
20	North Lanarkshire	Scotland	5,432	£158,591
21	Kirklees	England	5,345	£208,987
22	Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole	England	5,328	£310,094
23	City of Aberdeen	Scotland	5,063	£130,689
24	North Northamptonshire	England	5,063	£257,807
25	Cheshire West and Chester	England	4,989	£270,104
26	Northumberland	England	4,884	£212,563
27	Manchester	England	4,731	£252,309
28	Belfast	Northern Ireland	4,655	£184,768
29	Liverpool	England	4,576	£189,036
30	Wakefield	England	4,461	£199,347
31	Wirral	England	4,435	£221,849
32	Central Bedfordshire	England	4,414	£356,758
33	Cardiff	Wales	4,368	£272,252
34	Aberdeenshire	Scotland	4,367	£204,894
35	Wigan	England	4,329	£194,551
36	Wandsworth	England	4,321	£686,076
37	Shropshire	England	4,256	£275,232
38	Cumberland	England	4,206	£170,966
39	Highland	Scotland	4,193	£221,136
40	South Gloucestershire	England	3,947	£341,833
41	Doncaster	England	3,943	£172,305
42	West Lothian	Scotland	3,675	£227,354
43	East Suffolk	England	3,603	£276,301
44	Croydon	England	3,597	£390,041
45	City of Plymouth	England	3,596	£223,161
46	Sefton	England	3,519	£224,289
47	Dudley	England	3,516	£232,196
48	North Somerset	England	3,470	£313,638
49	Westmorland and Furness	England	3,392	£230,449
50	Brighton and Hove	England	3,343	£408,948
51	Coventry	England	3,334	£227,679
52	Newcastle upon Tyne	England	3,324	£207,547
53	Bolton	England	3,270	£204,379
54	Rotherham	England	3,230	£191,496
55	Milton Keynes	England	3,213	£330,419
56	Lambeth	England	3,170	£536,623
57	Salford	England	3,081	£229,462
58	Calderdale	England	3,038	£191,385
59	City of Kingston upon Hull	England	2,933	£135,511
60	North Tyneside	England	2,877	£205,744
61	Trafford	England	2,840	£400,688
62	Falkirk	Scotland	2,819	£173,046
63	Warrington	England	2,786	£260,040
64	Solihull	England	2,728	£337,112
65	Lewisham	England	2,704	£488,658
66	Southwark	England	2,673	£572,478
67	Tameside	England	2,613	£209,723
68	York	England	2,597	£310,781
69	Southampton	England	2,585	£235,977
70	Walsall	England	2,579	£215,329
71	Gateshead	England	2,499	£155,550
72	Tendring	England	2,487	£259,568
73	Sandwell	England	2,486	£205,830
74	New Forest	England	2,485	£384,977
75	Oldham	England	2,409	£217,171
76	Charnwood	England	2,385	£273,945
77	St Helens	England	2,342	£185,154
78	Bury	England	2,332	£242,437
79	Telford and Wrekin	England	2,321	£226,893
80	Tower Hamlets	England	2,314	£447,796
81	North Lincolnshire	England	2,295	£179,954
82	Greenwich	England	2,279	£462,589
83	Mid Sussex	England	2,266	£430,777
84	South Ayrshire	Scotland	2,265	£171,905
85	Leicester	England	2,231	£227,322
86	East Ayrshire	Scotland	2,223	£138,971
87	Wolverhampton	England	2,216	£220,559
88	Stratford-on-Avon	England	2,202	£396,753
89	Warwick	England	2,182	£369,220
90	Bedford	England	2,162	£333,824
91	City of Peterborough	England	2,157	£234,690
92	East Hertfordshire	England	2,114	£457,417
93	Horsham	England	2,108	£441,654
94	Breckland	England	2,087	£268,905
95	Flintshire	Wales	2,079	£215,892
96	Teignbridge	England	2,036	£302,368
97	Merton	England	1,999	£615,890
98	Eastleigh	England	1,989	£310,283
99	Hackney	England	1,914	£605,729
100	Lancaster	England	1,869	£202,966
101	City of Westminster	England	1,827	£876,788
102	Hammersmith and Fulham	England	1,820	£738,048
103	St Albans	England	1,819	£646,781
104	North Hertfordshire	England	1,811	£418,857
105	Moray	Scotland	1,790	£204,008
106	Test Valley	England	1,776	£368,131
107	East Dunbartonshire	Scotland	1,766	£271,608
108	Hinckley and Bosworth	England	1,762	£260,187
109	Bassetlaw	England	1,759	£214,281
110	Nuneaton and Bedworth	England	1,753	£228,142
111	Mid Suffolk	England	1,725	£315,898
112	Knowsley	England	1,698	£188,527
113	Harborough	England	1,654	£347,010
114	Camden	England	1,651	£815,159
115	South Tyneside	England	1,644	£161,559
116	Wrexham	Wales	1,552	£212,778
117	Exeter	England	1,534	£282,696
118	Worthing	England	1,528	£297,200
119	Ipswich	England	1,501	£221,445
120	Kensington and Chelsea	England	1,465	£1,232,640
121	Halton	England	1,411	£194,727
122	Powys	Wales	1,411	£237,762
123	South Staffordshire	England	1,410	£310,862
124	North East Derbyshire	England	1,408	£253,810
125	South Hams	England	1,406	£355,483
126	Blaby	England	1,384	£289,282
127	Babergh	England	1,347	£330,523
128	Bolsover	England	1,240	£182,759
129	Hyndburn	England	1,128	£141,430
130	Crawley	England	1,094	£332,384
131	Rossendale	England	1,076	£199,759
132	Adur	England	882	£380,120
133	Clackmannanshire	Scotland	876	£166,005
134	West Devon	England	838	£285,834
135	Rutland	England	633	£298,916

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 July 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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